Bail Is Set at $250,000 Each For 2 in Cosby Extortion Case
Date: 25 January 1997
By JAN HOFFMAN
Federal Magistrate Andrew J Peck sets bail at $250,000 each for Autumn Jackson and Jose Medina, who are accused of trying to extort $40 million from Bill Cosby by threatening to reveal to media that Jackson is his out-of-wedlock daughter, which Cosby denies; few details are released about Jackson, who has attended commmunity college with some expenses paid by Cosby; Cosby has supported many students; but prosecutors describe Medina as 'rootless' and on probation for fraud conviction (M)
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An AIDS Nursing Home Finds It Is No Longer the Last Stop
Date: 25 January 1997
By LYNDA RICHARDSON
Death rate has fallen 20 percent in last two years at nation's largest residential health-care facility for AIDS patients, Rivington House on Manhattan's Lower East Side; and New York City health officials report that for first time since 1981, deaths from AIDS declined sharply, falling by 30 percent from 1995 for all racial and ethnic groups; experts trace decline to use of protease inhibitors, powerful new class of drugs that is bringing many people back from brink of death; photos (M)
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$70 Million in Cheeseheads
Date: 25 January 1997
By GERALD ESKENAZI
Dallas Cowboys, America's most-marketed team, have been displaced by Green Bay Packers; Cowboys usually account for 24 percent of NFL Properties sales; Packers make up 12 percent; NFL Properties says this month Packers' products, from caps to cheeseheads, have eclipsed all team sales in all sports; retail sales for the Packers will reach $70 million in equipment nationwide (S)
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From Right and Left
Date: 25 January 1997
Barry M Lituchy letter on Jan 19 article on Serbs' view of Milovan Djilas (S)û
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10 Abandoned Children Found in Ramshackle Atlantic City House
Date: 25 January 1997
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
10 children are found living alone in abandoned, crumbling row house, with two kerosene heaters for warmth and nothing to eat but canned vegetables, in Atlantic City, NJ; one of the boys tells inspectors that their parents dropped them off at the house three weeks ago and never returned; map; photo (L)
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Treasury Securities Prices Are Sharply Lower
Date: 25 January 1997
By ROBERT HURTADO
Prices of US Treasury securities drop sharply; price of 30-year Treasury bond falls 10/32, to 95 5/32; yield rises to 6.88 percent, from 6.86 percent on Jan 23 (M)p
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Abortion Pill's Legal Woe May Be Nearing an End
Date: 25 January 1997
By TAMAR LEWIN
There is hope that legal stalemate over French abortion pill may be ending, and that pill, RU-486, may be on US market by end of year; legal dispute between Population Council, which has American patent rights to pill, and Joseph D Pike, businessman whom council had chosen to arrange for drug's manufacture, marketing and distribution, reviewed (M)
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Devils' Reconstructed Line Is on Target
Date: 25 January 1997
By JAY PRIVMAN
New Jersey Devils defeat San Jose Sharks, 3-1 (M)
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