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Date: 01 August 1996
By Frank Bruni
Frank Bruni
Many news organizations violate their policies regarding suspects by deciding report that Richard A Jewell, security guard at Summer Olympics in Atlanta, is suspect in bombing at Centennial Olympic Park; actions raise important ethical questions about ability and inclination of news organizations to act responsibly when news event sets off intense competition; photo (M)
Date: 02 August 1996
By Adam Nagourney
Adam Nagourney
Pres Clinton renounces White House promise to pay legal bills of travel office employees who had been dismissed; Clinton gets angry with Washington Times reporter Paul Bedard after he reminds Clinton this his press secretary had previously pledged Clinton's support to Senate legislation that would reimburse employees (M)
Date: 02 August 1996
By Sarah Lyall
Sarah Lyall
Time magazine apologizes to Dusko Doder three and a half years after reporting that the former Washington Post reporter might have accepted money from Soviet KGB and have written articles sympathetic to the Soviet Union in exchange for exclusive information; agrees to pay him $262,000 in damages to settle libel suit; photo (M)
Date: 01 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
American Re Corp shares rise following report that Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co is in talks to sell its 64 percent stake (S)
Date: 02 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Retirement Care Associates Inc says it will spin off its retirement and assisted-living business (S)
Date: 01 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Chiron Corp reports second-quarter earnings rose to $15.3 million from $830,000 in 1995 period; table (S)
Date: 02 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Chiron Corp fall 12 percent on day after company reported disappointing second-quarter earnings (S)
Date: 01 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tele-Communications Inc's TCI Communications Inc unit acquires Viacom Inc's cable television holdings for $2.3 billion (S)
Date: 02 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Warnaco Group Inc says it will sell its Hathaway men's shirt business to investor group organized by former Maine Gov John McKernan Jr, saving 675 jobs at Hathaway factories that company had intended to close; terms of cash deal not disclosed (S)
Date: 01 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
World Airways Inc to discontinue money-losing commercial flights and focus on military and international charter flights; reports second-quarter earnings rose 22 percent, to $14.5 million, from $11.9 million in 1995 period (S)