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Date: 06 January 1998
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Palestinian Authority bars CBS News from access to officials or territories under its control to protest report on 60 Minutes news program on December 7 which allegedly failed to follow up on information provided by Authority about supposed complicity of Israeli officials in monopolies controlling sale of certain goods in parts of West Bank under Palestinian control (S)
Date: 07 January 1998
By Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas
American journalist Richard Choi has been arrested in Seoul on charges of broadcasting damaging rumors about Hankook Ilbo, major South Korean newspaper; newspaper officials pressed to have him prosecuted for reporting, on Korean-language radio station in Los Angeles, that it is in financial difficulty and will be acquired by large conglomerate; Choi, vice president of Radio Korea USA, was arrested when he returned to South Korea in Dec to cover presidential election; photos (M)
Date: 07 January 1998
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Comment on all-news cable channels' coverage of Sonny Bono's death on ski slopes (S)
Date: 06 January 1998
Hartford Courant names Brian P Toolan, managing editor at The Philadelphia Daily News, as its editor and vice president (M)
Date: 07 January 1998
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
60 Minutes executive producer Don Hewitt and Bassam Abu Sharif, Palestinian official who has announced restrictions on CBS News in Palestinian-controlled areas, say CBS will be treated same as other news organizations; Abu Sharif has accused 60 Minutes of being unfair in Dec 17 program that referred to Palestinian involvement in corrupt monopolies controlling sale of some consumer goods in West Bank and Gaza (M)
Date: 07 January 1998
By Seth Mydans
Seth Mydans
Bangkok Post reports that Khmer Rouge guerrillas in Cambodia have allowed Thai reporter, Prasit Saengrungruang, to meet with their imprisoned former leader, Pol Pot, dispelling rumors that he had fled abroad from their jungle hideout; rumors have added to confusion in Cambodia as country begins political maneuvering before elections scheduled for July (M)
Date: 06 January 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ampal-American Israel Corporation to buy a one-third interest in Motorola Israel, Motorola's wireless-communications business in Israel, for $110 million; acquisition is springboard for other telecommunications and high-technology investments (S)
Date: 06 January 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Oakwood Homes Corporation to buy Schult Homes Corporation for $22.50 a share, or $101 million (S)
Date: 07 January 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Qwest Communications International says it will transmit Internet data for Apex Global Internet Services on its fiber optic network; deal is valued at $260 million, but Qwest would get as much as $575 million over life of 20-year contract (S)
Date: 07 January 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Enron Corp sells 7 percent of its retail energy business to Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board and California Public Employees' Retirement System for $130 million to offset cost of expanding retail energy sales (S)