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Date: 08 February 1999
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Gerald Levin, chairman of Time Warner, says little progress has been made since CNN talked last year with major networks about combining news operations; photo (S)
Date: 08 February 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Apparent contradictions have emerged between Pres Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal's testimony that he was not source of any news stories about Monica S Lewinsky's personal life and affidavit by journalist Christopher Hitchens recalling Blumenthal called her 'stalker' when he and wife lunched with Blumenthal and his wife; Blumenthal's lawyer sees no contradictions, noting Blumenthal testified that he often talked about news stories concerning Lewinsky to friends and family; photo (M)
Date: 08 February 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Richard Jewell is suing Atlanta Journal-Constitution for identifying him as 'focus of' Federal probe into bombing at 1996 Summer Olympics Games in Atlanta; although case is months away from trial, evidence assembled offers glimpse of workings of newsroom; it shows how news coverage, started in particular direction, can become journalistic juggernaut, hard to turn; evidence gathered so far shows that in first days after Jewell was named, Journal-Constitution gave prominence to reporting that supported FBI view, giving only perfunctory attention to contradictory material; evidence makes it clear how tempting it is for journalists covering highly visible investigation to adopt investigators' theories as their own; Jewell's lawyer notes journalists did not only report suspicions of Jewell's guilt, but embellished and enlarged on them; photos (L)
Date: 07 February 1999
By Alison Mitchell
Alison Mitchell
Christopher Hitchens, free-lance journalist who has been critical of Pres Clinton, submits affidavit naming White House aide Sidney Blumenthal as source of information disparaging Monica Lewinsky; statement contradicts Blumenthal testimony to House impeachment managers (S)
Date: 07 February 1999
By Dave Anderson
Dave Anderson
Sports of The Times interview with Arthur Richman, 72-year-old former sportswriter and Mets executive who is now senior adviser for New York Yankees; Richman will receive achievement award at New York Baseball WritersDinner; photo with baseball memorabilia in his office at Yankee Stadium (S)
Date: 08 February 1999
By Donald G. McNeil Jr
Donald McNeil
Pres Robert Mugabe pushes Zimbabwe toward constitutional crisis with angry television speech suggesting Supreme Court resign; threatens 'stern measures' against independent press, seems to back army's arrest and apparent torture of Zimbabwe Standard journalists Ray Choto and Mark Chavanduka and to defy court orders that they be released; suggests article that led to arrest, which said 23 army officers were arrested for plotting coup, was planted by Britain (M)
Date: 07 February 1999
By Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd Op-Ed column says Monica Lewinsky showed, in interview with House managers, that she has grown savvier and tougher; says impeachment trial is loony, because Congress has history of politicians having affairs with younger female aides and lying about it; claims Republicans act like cheap hypocrites; says Americans hate unfairness, and they know that Kenneth Starr's partisan, relentless conduct has tainted his investigation; says Clinton behaved terribly, but he has no right to complain about media coverage of his daughter, Chelsea, since he has used her for photo opportunities when it suited his purposes (M)
Date: 08 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Industry survey shows orders for machine tools fell 4 percent in December, third consecutive month of declining orders (S)
Date: 07 February 1999
Letter from Jeffrey Evans, prompted by Frank Rich's Feb 3 criticism of news media and Republicans in Clinton scandal, says he assumes there are people in leadership positions, and in media, who act from sense of duty or principle (S)
Date: 08 February 1999
INTERNATIONAL A3-13 King Hussein Dies; Jordan Names New King King Hussein, ruler of the Hashemite Kingdom since 1952, succumbed to cancer. In a somber succession, his eldest son, now King Abdullah II, appeared on television in his debut as Jordan's new monarch to console the nation. A1 Israelis mourned the king, whom many regarded as a larger-than-life figure who rose above the enmities of the region to forge with them a genuine peace. A13