Liberties; All Tripped Up
Date: 28 June 1998
By Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd Op-Ed column scores James Fallows, editor of US News & World Report, for promoting his magazine's account of Linda Tripp's taped conversations with Monica S Lewinsky; says Fallows, who has excoriated journalists for sinking into muck of scandals, is now hyping tawdry story that proves nothing and for which he has no real proof (M)
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An Ex-Officer in CNN's Nerve-Gas Report Disputes Part of It
Date: 27 June 1998
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Robert Van Buskirk, former Special Forces lieutenant, disputes key points in Cable News Network's report of his account of his platoon's 1970 raid into Laos from Vietnam, phone interview; denies confirming gas dropped by American planes was banned nerve gas sarin, holding he was told only that gas was lethal; says he suspected, but could not prove, that blond Caucasian he confronted and killed during raid on village occupied by Communist guerrillas was American defector; defends gist of CNN report (M)
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The Pursuit of Diana: Book Tells of Frenzy at Crash
Date: 28 June 1998
By Craig R. Whitney
Craig Whitney
New book about car crash that took lives of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed states there is little evidence to bolster initial police theories that photographers chasing car caused driver, Henri Paul, to lose control; says Paul, who was killed also, was far over legal driving limit for alcohol, and that remains biggest probable cause of tragedy; nevertheless, book paints devastating picture of behavior of some of photographers who had been chasing Diana and Fayed for 12 hours before crash; notes that only one of 10 photographers at scene of crash tried to call ambulance, and that most spent first minutes after crash snapping pictures of wrecked car and its dead or dying passengers; book is Investigation on the Death of Diana, written by Jean-Marie Pontaut and Jerome Dupuis, French reporters; photo (M)
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ESCALADE TO SELL ITS SPORTING GOODS BUSINESS
Date: 27 June 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Escalade will sell its sporting goods equipment business to Sportcraft Ltd's JEN Sports unit (S)
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DAOU SYSTEMS ADDING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONCERN
Date: 27 June 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Daou Systems wukk buy Resources in Healthcare Innovations for $54 million (S)
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FONOROLA ADVISES HOLDERS TO ACCEPT NEW OFFER
Date: 27 June 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Fonorola Inc, reversing stand, advises shareholders to accept Call-Net Enterprises Inc's sweetened $1.97 billion (Canadian) takeover offer after failing to attract superior bids from abroad (S)
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OFFERS FOR BRITISH REFINERY UNIT ARE UNDER STUDY
Date: 27 June 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Chevron Corp says it is willing to consider bids for its mothballed British refinery unit, Gulf Oil Refining Ltd; Petroplus International BV says it negotiates to buy all or parts of refinery, shut since Dec (S)
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CABOT TO TAKE A $54 MILLION EARNINGS CHARGE
Date: 27 June 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cabot Corp will take charge of about $54 million in third quarter (S)
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Cirrus Logic and Lucent To Use ARM Processor
Date: 27 June 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
ARM Holdings PLC shares jump after Cirrus Logic Inc and Lucent Technologies Inc say they will work with semiconductor maker on chips to improve disk drive performance; graph (S)
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Korea Offers Financing To Industrial Groups
Date: 27 June 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
South Korea is offering trade financing to some of nation's top industrial groups for first time in nine years in bid to spur exports; companies affiliated with top five business groups will remain ineligible (S)
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