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Date: 06 February 1998
By Richard L. Berke
Richard Berke
White House, responding to damaging news accounts about Pres Clinton's relationship with Monica S Lewinsky, begins aggressive behind-the-scenes counterattack, accusing media of one-sided coverage based on leaked information from independent counsel Kenneth W Starr (M)
Date: 06 February 1998
By Janny Scott
Janny Scott
Wall Street Journal reports on its Web site that White House steward, Bayani Nelvis, has told Federal grand jury that he saw Pres Clinton and Monica S Lewinsky alone together in study next to Oval Office; Journal amends story after Joseph Small, lawyer for Nelvis, denies account, but not before it has been picked up by other news organizations (M)
Date: 07 February 1998
By Steve Popper
Steve Popper
Jayson Williams of New Jersey Nets appears at news media interview session on All-Star weekend, and finds it exhausting; says he now understands why Bulls' Michael Jordan and Lakers' Shaquille O'Neal paid $10,000 fine imposed by NBA rather than appear at session (M)
Date: 07 February 1998
By Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw Op-Ed article on the news media's surprise that Pres Clinton's standing with the public has not been damaged by allegations that he had an affair with a White House intern and encouraged her to deny it; says public response is understandable in light of a series of scandals in recent years that generated much hysteria and finger pointing but turned out to be of little consequence (M)
Date: 06 February 1998
By John Tagliabue
John Tagliabue
Dozens of people in Aviano, Italy, participate in nationally televised talk show devoted to accident in which US military jet cut cables of ski lift in Cavalese and killed 20 skiers; Armed Forces Television Network warns military and civilian personnel at air base outside Aviano not to discuss accident with reporters (M)
Date: 06 February 1998
By Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald
Cyberspace Research Associates Inc, computer consultant, was reportedly monitored downloading hundreds of screens of proprietary Bloomberg LP data during one-day periods; Government is investigating whether Cyberspace Research was commissioned to steal the information from Bloomberg by Reuters Analytics, subsidiary of Reuters Holdings PLC; year-long probe is examining whether Bloomberg data were incorporated into products of Reuters, and whether officials used it to reconstruct analysis programs used by Bloomberg through process known as 'reverse engineering' (M)
Date: 06 February 1998
By Donald G. McNeil Jr
Donald McNeil
South Africa is deporting Newton Kanhema, Zimbabwean citizen and prominent reporter who has written many articles that angered Government officials; Kanhema is in US on fellowship, but his wife, Jean, has been told that she must leave South Africa by Feb 11 (M)
Date: 06 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Computer Horizons Corp says it purchased Princeton Softech Inc for $43 million in stock (S)
Date: 07 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lazard Freres & Co's real estate unit, Prometheus Mid-Atlantic Investors Trust, agrees to invest $220 million in Rubenstein Co (S)
Date: 07 February 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Summit Care Corp says it is in talks to be acquired by unnamed company (S)