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Date: 16 April 2002
By Tim Golden
Tim Golden
Focus on Arab television coverage of Israel's military offensive in Palestinian territories on West Bank; plight of Palestinians has saturated news on private satellite channels and state-run national networks and Palestinian cause has become staple of religious programming, entertainment shows and even sports talk shows; photo (M)
Date: 15 April 2002
Scribner acquires right to publish memoir by Mariane Pearl, whose husband, Daniel Pearl of Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped and killed reporting from Pakistan (S)
Date: 15 April 2002
By Serge Schmemann and Joel Greenberg
Serge Schmemann
Israeli Army rebuts rumors of massacres and mass burials in Jenin refugee camp on West Bank; says number of Palestinian dead is not in hundreds but in dozens; will allow Red Cross to monitor collection of 26 bodies following Israeli Supreme Court ruling; takes members of media on tour to stem growing outcry, which led court to enjoin it from burying Palestinians in enemies' cemetery; mass destruction in Jenin refugee camp described; occurred during army operation to take control of camp, which turned violent after 13 Israeli infantrymen were killed in ambush; photos (M)
Date: 16 April 2002
By Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse
Supreme Court roundup: court, in appeal from federal government in Fourth Circuit case involving defendants in Baltimore drug ring, hears arguments about what should happen to defendants whose extra-long sentences were impermissably based on a judge's rather than jury's conclusion about amount of drugs involved in their crime; refuses to review ruling by Fourth Circuit that Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District in North Carolina had effectively dismantled vestiges of segregation; refusal comes in long-running case in which court, in 1971, for first time upheld busing as remedy for school segregation; also turns down appeal by freelance writer Vanessa Leggett of Fifth Circuit ruling that First Amendment protection for newsgathering activities did not give her privilege to refuse to cooperate with grand jury in Houston murder case; agrees to consider whether plaintiff in trademark infringement suit must demonstrate economic injury in review of Sixth Circuit decision in dispute between Victoria's Secret retail and catalog chain and Victor's Little Secret store in Elizabethtown, Kentucky (M)
Date: 16 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Exide Technologies Inc, world's largest maker of automotive batteries, files for bankruptcy protection amid fears it faces default on more than $2.5 billion in debt (S)
Date: 16 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc names News Corp executive Jeff Shell as co-president and chief operating officer; he succeeds Peter Boylan, who retired on April 1 as operating officer; Elsie Leung is co-president and chief financial officer (S)
Date: 16 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
GlaxoSmithKline will pay Adolor Corp and Unigene Laboratories Inc for rights to bowel-paralysis and osteoporosis treatments; Glaxo will pay as much as $270 million to Adolor for rights to bowel treatment alvimopan, while Unigene will get as much as $150 million for hormone treatment for osteoporosis; Glaxo will give up rights to Factive, experimental antibiotic, after regulators in US do not approve it (S)
Date: 16 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Continental Airlines Inc posts first-quarter loss of $166 million compared with net income of $9 million year earlier; revenue fell 19 percent, to $1.99 billion from $2.45 billion (S)
Date: 16 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Unisys Corp says first-quarter earnings fell 53 percent; net income fell to $32.7 million from $69.3 million year earlier; sales decreased 16 percent, to $1.36 billion (S)
Date: 16 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Fannie Mae says first-quarter earnings rose 23 percent; profit from operations was $1.52 billion compared with net income of $1.24 billion (S)
Date: 16 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pepsi Bottling Group says first-quarter net income rose to $54 million from $26 million year earlier; revenue in quarter ended March 23 rose 7.6 percent, to $1.77 billion from $1.65 billion (S)