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6th of October 1994 News
Ειδήσεις όπως εμφανίστηκαν στην πρώτη σελίδα των New York Times στο 6 Οκτωβρίου 1994
Another Casualty Of NBC's Hit 'E.R.'
Date: 06 October 1994
NBC's new Thursday night hit drama "E.R." claimed its second victim yesterday as ABC announced that it would move "Prime Time Live" away from the "E.R." time slot in January, as part of a wholesale rescheduling of the network's news magazine programs. "Prime Time" will shift to 10 P.M. Wednesdays, a night when ABC has a much stronger lineup of shows earlier in the evening. Roone Arledge, the president of ABC News, said in a statement that "Prime Time" was "one of the news division's most important franchises."
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Plans for Publicizing the Study Run Afoul of a Race to Publish
Date: 07 October 1994
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
Newspaper readers and television viewers learned details of the report on sexual behavior earlier than they were supposed to yesterday as a careful effort to orchestrate a wave of national publicity went awry. The New York Daily News, The Chicago Tribune and The Boston Herald published articles about the survey yesterday, though publicists who were trying to draw attention to the survey said that under an agreement with the press, Friday was the earliest date it was to be disclosed.
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California Court Opens New Gray Area for Libel
Date: 07 October 1994
By Kit R. Roane
Kit Roane
One way a person has been able to libel an enemy with impunity is to file a lawsuit filled with false accusations, then mail a copy of the filings to a reporter, who can publish whatever is in the court document without fear of a libel suit. Now a California court has ruled that it would no longer consider copies of complaints that reporters receive from lawyers to be official court documents. This means that the sender of such documents may find himself in court. Courts in other states, New Jersey and Maryland among them, have issued similar rulings in an effort to keep people from drumming up publicity after filing frivolous lawsuits. But news organizations are vigorously fighting the California decision because they say it could limit the public's access to one of the country's largest and complex court systems. They also fear that the ruling may influence other courts.
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A Report on Reporters in the World's Hot Spots
Date: 06 October 1994
By Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
Taking its perfect title from the old spiritual song, Marcel Ophuls's engrossing new documentary "The Troubles We've Seen" calls attention to the missing phrase: "Nobody knows." No one besides journalists operating within the cauldron of a war zone really understands the occupational hazards of such work. But Mr. Ophuls, the contemplative documentary film maker whose specialty is plumbing the depths of unfathomable experience, has made it his business to try. Working on his usual vast canvas, Mr. Ophuls constructs another brave, enveloping inquiry into a compelling subject, reveling in the investigative process as he presents it imaginatively on screen. The topics here range from journalistic ethics to survival tactics to grace under pressure. And a leisurely four-hour running time lets Mr. Ophuls explore them in rambling, frequently surprising ways.
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Giuliani's Approval Rating Rises to 61%
Date: 07 October 1994
By David Firestone
David Firestone
Bolstered by his maverick support of a Democratic Federal crime bill, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani now has the approval of a majority New York City residents, according to a New York Times/WCBS-TV News Poll. The poll, taken between Sept. 29 and Oct. 2 with 495 city residents participating, shows that the Mayor's approval rating has shot upward in the last three months, increasing to 61 percent from 49 percent in June. His rating is roughly tied with the first rating of Mayor David N. Dinkins four years ago; but Mr. Dinkins's popularity quickly began to decline, while Mr. Giuliani's seems to be on the rise.
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On My Mind; Congress, Haiti and Ravens
Date: 07 October 1994
By A. M. Rosenthal
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Often, listening to some of the American journalists and politicians who opposed the U.S. intervention in Haiti, you can hear clearly what they do not say. They want the mission to fail and Haiti to explode into violence and chaos. They do not want American troops to be killed. But if casualties do come, they are poised, mouth and computer at the ready, to scream havoc.
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Pushing Back the Censors in Poland
Date: 07 October 1994
Just two weeks ago, Poland seemed about to take a giant step back from freedom. The lower house of Parliament, dominated by a coalition of former Communists and their allies, overwhelmingly passed a bill called the Official State Secrets Act, which would stifle the lively independent media that have grown up over the past four years. The upper house, with the same parties in control, was expected to approve the bill as well, perhaps as soon as this week. But the Polish press fought back and, although the danger has not completely passed, the censors are now in retreat. Upper house action is stalled, lower house leaders are having second thoughts and President Lech Walesa promises to veto the bill if it reaches his desk in anything like its present form.
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SYNOVUS FINANCIAL PLANS A MERGER WITH NBSC
Date: 07 October 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Synovus Financial Corporation said yesterday that it would merge with the NBSC Corporation in a stock swap valued at about $153 million, creating a regional bank with about $6 billion in assets. Synovus said it would exchange about $153 million of its stock for all of NBSC's stock outstanding. NBSC is the parent of National Bank of South Carolina, with assets of $1.02 billion. Synovus, based in Columbus, Ga., is a banking and financial services company with $5.9 billion in assets. It operates 32 community banks in Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
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A THERMO ELECTRON OFFER FOR PURITAN-BENNETT
Date: 07 October 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Puritan-Bennett Corporation said yesterday that it had received an unsolicited offer from the Thermo Electron Corporation to buy the company for $21 a share, or about $263 million. In a letter, Thermo Electron, based in Waltham, Mass., said it was interested in a transaction only if approved by the board of Puritan-Bennett, a maker of products for treating respiratory diseases and of oxygen systems for aircraft. Burton Dole, chairman and president of Puritan-Bennett, based in Overland Park, Kan., said in a statement that the board would review the letter "in due course." Mr. Dole said he was puzzled by the proposed price because Puritan-Bennett's stock has traded as high as $22.75 a share this year. It was at $18, up $1.25, when its trading was halted at 3:37 P.M. yesterday.
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BENSON EYECARE PLANS TO COMPLETE AN ACQUISITION
Date: 07 October 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Benson Eyecare Corporation says it will pay $17 plus 1.0476 of its shares for each common share of the Optical Radiation Corporation to complete a previously announced acquisition. The deal is valued at about $141 million, based on yesterday's closing price of $6.75 for Benson shares and the 5.89 million shares of Optical Radiation outstanding. The transaction is expected to be completed next Wednesday. Benson distributes reading and prescription glasses and other eye-care products. Optical Radiation, based in Azusa, Calif., makes optical products for medical, scientific and industrial use.
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