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Date: 15 October 1998
By Geraldine Fabrikant
Geraldine Fabrikant
Primestar Inc, satellite television service owned by group of cable operators, abandons $1.1 billion plan to buy direct-broadcast satellite venture of News Corp and MCI Worldcom Inc; announcement comes from Justice Department, which had filed civil antitrust suit in May to block Primestar from entering direct-broadcast satellite business (S)
Date: 15 October 1998
By Jane Perlez
Jane Perlez
Yugoslav Pres Slobodan Milosevic Government shuts down two more newspapers accused of 'fomenting defeatism, panic and fear' and renews decree against press freedom; continues censorship drive begun when NATO threatened air strikes because of crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo; drive seen effort by Milosevic to consolidate power; photo (M)
Date: 15 October 1998
By Alison Mitchell With Janet Elder
Alison With
New York Times/CBS News Poll finds approval of Republican-controlled Congress has slipped to 43 percent from high of 56 percent in Sept in wake of House vote to open impeachment probe of Pres Clinton; finds Congress is now widely seen as having invested too much political capital in impeachment and having accomplished little on broad array of issues of importance to voters; 48 percent of public now disapproves of job Congress is doing; Clinton's approval rating remains at highest of his Presidency, 63 percent; poll suggests Democrats may not be facing feared midterm election rout; finds election results will swing on turnout, with low turnout best for Republicans; finds Clinton is widely seen as trying harder than Congressional Republicans to find budget compromise; finds 75 percent of voters think Kenneth W Starr's probe was not worth time or money, but 55 percent of people who call selves conservative Republicans say probe was worthwhile; tables (M)
Date: 15 October 1998
By Abby Goodnough With Marjorie Connelly
Abby With
New York Times/CBS poll finds that for first time since Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani won election in 1993, more than half of New York City residents say that life in city has improved; nearly two thirds of city residents who were polled earlier this month say they approved way Giuliani is handling job and 59 percent say that life in city has improved in last four years; graph (M)
Date: 14 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Fox News said yesterday that it would join Westwood One Inc. to create a new radio network as its parent, the News Corporation, prepares to take its entertainment holdings public. Fox News Channel, a unit of the News Corporation's cable networks, will supply news, sports and entertainment updates to the network, which will start broadcasting at the end of the year and will be called Fox News.
Date: 15 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
International Paper Co will close fiberboard plants in South Carolina and North Carolina and dismiss 336 workers after company fails to find buyers for sites; layoffs come on top of 1,500 job cuts that were announced on Oct 13 (S)
Date: 14 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Conagra Inc. paid $400 million to buy several brands of margarine from the Nabisco Holdings Corporation, according to a regulatory filing. The price was not disclosed when the sale was announced in July. Conagra bought Fleischmann's, Parkay, Blue Bonnet, Touch of Butter, Chiffon and Move Over Butter margarines as well as Egg Beaters egg substitutes. The purchase made Conagra, based in Omaha, one of the largest makers of table spreads in the United States.
Date: 14 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Staples Inc. agreed yesterday to buy the office-products assets of the Ivan Allen Company for an undisclosed price. Staples, which is based in Westborough, Mass., and is the second-largest office-supply superstore chain in the United States, is expanding its operations in the Southeast and building its catalogue business. It said it would buy the closely held Ivan Allen's supplies assets in Atlanta and 14 divisional sales offices in the South. Ivan Allen will continue to operate its office-furniture business.
Date: 15 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Entergy Corp, third-largest US power producer, is buying two-thirds of Bulgarian utility for $375 million in its first step into Eastern Europe's energy market; Entergy's 66 percent stake in joint venture with National Electricity Co of Bulgaria will give it control over Maritza Iztok 3 thermal power station, which provides 10 percent to 12 percent of Bulgaria's electricity (S)
Date: 15 October 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Specialty Foods Corp to buy Archway Cookies Inc and San Diego Bread Co for more than $100 million (S)