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Date: 20 February 2000
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
Comment on nudity that is commonplace in Italian newspapers and magazines, which routinely feature naked women in very that would never be allowed in American media; ethical dexterity may explain lack of concern about Benetton's notorious Death Row ad campaign; photo of Benetton ad showing child labor (S)
Date: 21 February 2000
By Susan Stellin
Susan Stellin
Industry View column on recent extensive media coverage of problems affecting Internet, which overshadowed usual coverage on highflying Internet stock prices, has raised question of how long it will be before 'Internet update' becomes staple of daily media diet (M)
Date: 21 February 2000
By Edmund L. Andrews
Edmund Andrews
Boom in German high-technology stocks and revolution in attitudes toward investing transforms Germany into battleground for new business publications; Pearson Group, publisher of Financial Times of London, will start German version of business daily; plans by other publications to enter German market discussed; photo (M)
Date: 20 February 2000
By Mark Landler
Mark Landler
New China News Agency throws its annual spring festival reception; always a must for Hong Kong's elite, China's state news agency, known as Xinhua, is no longer operating under cover; since 1949 Xinhua's Hong Kong branch has claimed to be in news business, when it was actually de facto Chinese Embassy in former British colony; a shadowy orgn that operates in fortresslike headquarters, Xinhua employs several hundred Communist Party cadres, diplomats and intelligence operatives who woo local business leaders, mobilize trade unions and lean on friendly newspapers to promote Beijing's views; Xinhua also runs a news bureau with 20 or so genuine journalists; last month, Chinese government finally owned up to agency's purpose--quietly changing its name to Liaison Office of Central People's Government in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (M)
Date: 21 February 2000
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
Yugoslav government of Pres Slobodan Milosevic sharply intensifies attacks on democratic opposition and news media, calling them traitors and using a draconian press law to intimidate and impoverish independent publications; reinforces lawsuits against the press with open threats of possible violence (M)
Date: 20 February 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Janus Capital Corp, mutual fund group, raised its holding in Apple Computer to 9.99 million shares as of end of 1999 based on company's performance under its chief executive, Steve Jobs (S)
Date: 20 February 2000
INTERNATIONAL 3-13 Early Returns in Iran Show Gains for Reformers Early results from Iran's elections indicated that the country's reform-minded President, Mohammad Khatami, may have a solid majority behind him in Parliament. 4
Date: 21 February 2000
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Initial Tallies Show Reformist Victory in Iran Early tallies indicated that reformers and moderates who are expected to back President Mohammad Khatami will have a significant, probably even dominant, place in the new Iranian Parliament. A1 Serbs Battle U.S. Troops Angry Serbs stoned, punched and kicked American troops in Mitrovica, a town in northern Kosovo, forcing them to beat a hasty retreat and cut short their part in a citywide search for weapons. A3
Date: 20 February 2000
By Thelma Karro
Thelma Karro
I HAVE lived in Asharoken for 20 years, and one of the symbols of my community -- not quite as well known as the four huge stacks of the LIPA generating plant, but a symbol nonetheless -- is the community bulletin board at the corner of Ocean Avenue and Eaton's Neck Road. It's really not a board at all, just five sections of the chain-link fence that surrounds the power plant. But for all my time here, it has served the residents of Asharoken and Eaton's Neck, who must pass that spot to get to and from their homes. Rare are the times when the bulletin board is empty of notices, but the only evidence of its customary use are the hundreds and hundreds of bits of string and ribbon remaining on the fence.
Date: 20 February 2000
By R. W. Apple Jr
R. Apple
R W Apple analysis of Gov George W Bush's South Carolina primary victory; finds that Bush, with big lift from religious right, re-emerges as candidate after being trounced by Sen John McCain in New Hampshire; notes Bush came to South Carolina and cast himself as a hard-nosed conservative, as an outsider and as a reformer who gets results; charts (M)