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Date: 12 February 1998
By Andrea Codrington
Andrea Codrington
Discovery News, Discovery cable channel's news program, uses virtual-reality broadcast set; background decor and all interior design elements seen by viewers are created by computer; photos (M)
Date: 13 February 1998
By Amy Waldman
Amy Waldman
Elinor R Tatum in Dec 1997 became editor in chief and publisher of Amsterdam News, New York City's oldest, best-known black newspaper; she replaced her father, Wilbert A Tatum, who owns paper; Elinor Tatum, who is 27, has her work cut out for her; circulation of 89-year-old Amsterdam News has dropped to 25,962 from 58,905 in 1977; while newspaper remains Harlem institution, it is facing strong competition from host of new publications; some critics say Amsterdam News has not done enough to reflect changing face of New York metropolitan region; photos (M)
Date: 13 February 1998
By Michael R. Gordon
Michael Gordon
Russian officials announce they have arrested retired military intelligence official, Pavel Popovskikh, in connection with killing of investigative journalist three years ago; journalist, Dmitri Kholodov, had been investigating corruption in Russian military when he was killed by opening booby-trapped suitcase (M)
Date: 13 February 1998
By Bernard Weinraub
Bernard Weinraub
At the Movies column; this year's Academy Award nominations mark return of major studios; 20th Century Fox leads with 14 for Titanic and four for The Full Monty; Peter Chernin of News Corp, which controls Fox, comments; Gerald DiPego, 56-year-old onetime journalist who has worked for years as television and movie writer, hopes for success with film now being completed at Touchstone, tentatively titled Instinct; Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr star; Vanessa Redgrave comments on role in Mrs Dalloway, film adapted by Eileen Atkins from novel by Virginia Woolf; photos (S)
Date: 13 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, Discover & Co will buy back up to $3 billion of stock in company's first share repurchase since announcing merger plans a year ago (S)
Date: 12 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Texas Utilities Co says its Australian unit will offer $135 million to purchase Allgas Energy Ltd, an Australian natural gas utility (S)
Date: 12 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Devon Energy Corp will make tender offer of $8.75 in cash for each of 8.8 million units of Burlington Resources Coal Seam Gas Royalty Trust; offer is valued at as much as $77 million (S)
Date: 13 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Commercial Federal Corp agrees to buy Amerus Bank of Iowa for $200.9 million in stock and cash (S)
Date: 13 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Breed Technologies Inc will dismiss 4,500 workers, or 25 percent of its work force, and close 47 of its 103 factories and offices by mid-1999 (S)
Date: 13 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
May Department Stores Co plans to buy back as much as $650 million of its stock in company's third repurchase plan in two years; reports fourth-quarter earnings rose 5.2 percent, to $445 million (S)