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Date: 15 December 2004
By TERRY PRISTIN
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With Premier's Trial Over, Italians Hope for Judicial Reforms
Date: 16 December 2004
By JASON HOROWITZ
Jason HOROWITZ
Judicial commentators in Italy voice hope for much needed reforms in country's justice system following dismissal of bribery charges against Prime Min Silvio Berlusconi; there is widespread agreement among Italy's politicians that judiciary is seriously flawed, that it moves far too slowly and that magistrates are overworked (M)
DEFENSE MISSILE FOR U.S. SYSTEM FAILS TO LAUNCH
Date: 16 December 2004
By DAVID STOUT and JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr
David STOUT
Important test of United States' fledgling missile defense system ends in failure when interceptor rocket fails to launch on cue from Marshall Islands; Pentagon says interceptor automoatically shut down because of 'unknown anomaly'; setback threatens to delay further initial step of activating basic missile defense; launching had been delayed several times because of bad weather or problems with equipment; last test of interceptor, two years ago, was also failure, as interceptor failed to separate from its booster rocket, missed its target by hundreds of miles and burned up in atmosphere; shortly after that Pres Bush ordered Pentagon to proceed with initial deployment of limited system, goal he campaigned on in 2004 election; in 2003, test of another part of system based on Navy ships also failed; before latest test, Missile Defense Agency had conducted eight tests with interceptor vehicles, scoring hits in five under carefully controlled conditions; critics say agency's entire test program is unrealistic and that tests have been scripted; overall missile defense program is to cost more than $50 billion over next five years (M)
Lawsuit Accuses Fox of Copying Wife-Swap Show
Date: 16 December 2004
By BILL CARTER
Bill CARTER
RDF Media, Britishø
World Business Briefing | Americas: Mexico: Biggest Railroad Sold
Date: 16 December 2004
By Elisabeth Malkin (NYT)
Elisabeth NYT
Grupo TMM, Mexican transportation company, sells control of country's biggest railroad, Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana, to Kansas City Southern; Kansas City Southern, which already owns minority stake in railroad, will pay Ferroviaria Mexicana $200 million in cash and estimated $300 million in stock (S)
Metro Briefing | New York: Brooklyn: One Dead In Hit-And-Run
Date: 16 December 2004
By Thomas J. Lueck (NYT); Compiled by Anthony Ramirez
Thomas Lueck
Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: Hawk Protester Is Released
Date: 16 December 2004
By Sabrina Tavernise (NYT); Compiled by Anthony Ramirez
Sabrina NYT
Government Eases Rules on Writers in Sanctioned Nations
Date: 16 December 2004
By EDWARD WYATT
Edward WYATT
Treasury Department issues broad new rules that allow US publishers to work with authors from countries under American economic sanctions as long as they are not government representatives; action comes in wake of lawsuits filed against department by publishers and Iranian Shirin Ebadi, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate (M)
When Shots Ring Out, a Listening Device Acts as Witness
Date: 16 December 2004
By CYRUS FARIVAR
Cyrus FARIVAR
What's Next column on automated gunshot recognition system based on work by Theodore Berger from University of Southern California; system uses microphone, video camera and computer to sense and send information directly to police headquarters; drawing (M)