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Date: 22 July 1999
By John M. Broder
John
Pres Clinton holds second lengthy take-all-comers news conference in month to show his command of issues and quiet any hints of looming lame-duckism; says he wants to do more, not wind down; photo (M)
Date: 22 July 1999
By Sandy Byers Harvin
Sandy Harvin
Earl Caldwell, journalist who spent 40 years covering civil rights movement for 8 newspapers, has written his memoirs; Caldwell Journals is being presented on line, in installments, by Maynard Institute for Journalism Education; it includes voices of some of Caldwell's fellow black journalists, who were rare at major news organizations in 60's; photo (M)
Date: 22 July 1999
By John Tierney
John Tierney
John Tierney column contends that most Americans are probably glad that no expense was spared to find John F Kennedy Jr's plane; maintains that many of them might also have hard time justifying government's extraordinary efforts in case, which officially was nothing more than relatively routine accident involving private citizen; holds that one way to reconcile public's conflicting sentiments would be for someone other than taxpayers to pay for salvage operation; suggests that news media should reimburse government for rescue-and-recovery bill; says New York's publishers and broadcasters can afford to pay portion of profits they have made off Kennedy this week, not to mention last 38 years (M)
Date: 23 July 1999
By Alan Cowell
Alan Cowell
Vivendi SA, French utilities giant, agrees to pay about $2.7 billion in cash and stock to increase its holdings in pay-TV stations Canal Plus SA of France and B Sky B of Britain; surprise move heightens speculation that Vivendi is out to push two companies into merger; such an idea would likely to face opposition from Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp, which owns 40 percent of B Sky B; Vivendi raises its stake in B Sky B to 24.5 percent from 17 percent while increasing its holding in Canal Plus to 49 percent from 34 percent; Vivendi purchases indirect stakes in B Sky B held by Pearson PLC and Granada Group PLC; if two pay-TV companies merged, Vivendi would hold 30 percent of combined entity, leaving Murdoch with 25 percent; Vivendi acquires Cie Financiere Richemont AG's 15 percent stake in Canal Plus for $1.4 billion in stock (M)
Date: 23 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Management of Carematrix Corp, operator of retirement communities, is considering taking company private (S)
Date: 22 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Unicom Corp acquires Midwest Mechanical (S)
Date: 23 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
St Joe Co, Florida's largest private landowner, says it will suspend sales of its timberlands until market improves and it evaluates new markets; company, which announced in March that it would sell about 800,000 acres of northwest Florida timberland, says market conditions have weakened since then because of mill closings, low pulp prices and competition from other land sellers (S)
Date: 23 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Intelliquest Information Group Inc., a technology market-research company, agreed yesterday to sell its IQ2.net direct-marketing division to Naviant Technology Solutions for $46.5 million in cash. IQ2.net owns a data base of Internet-user households and provides related marketing services. Intelliquest, based in Austin, Tex., will also enter a partnership with Naviant, a closely held technology consulting company in Newtown Square, Pa., to use the combined Naviant-IQ2.net data base for its Internet research. Intelliquest said it planned to focus on its main research and growing Internet businesses.
Date: 23 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Reliastar Financial Corp will acquire Pilgrim Capital Corp for $258 million in stock and cash (S)
Date: 23 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kaiser Permanente announces details of its planned departure from Northeastern US; Kaiser will shut down unprofitable health plans in Massachusetts and Vermont and sell its money-losing plans in New York and Connecticut; agrees to sell its New York business to Capital District Physicians' Health Plan and its Connecticut health maintenance organization to Connecticare Inc; financial terms undisclosed (S)