Leaders of Precinct Are Swept Out in Torture Inquiry
Date: 15 August 1997
By DAN BARRY
Police Comr Howard Safir sweeps Brooklyn's 70th Precinct clean in response to allegations that police officers tortured man in custody inside station house last weekend; reassigns all supervisors and suspends desk sergeant; Safir and Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani demand that other officers at precinct set aside allegiance to colleagues and step forward with information about alleged brutalization of Abner Louima, Haitian immigrant; Louima, in hospital, claims one of his police attackers said 'This is Giuliani time, not Dinkins time,' reference to city's first black mayor and Giuliani's predecessor; Justin A Volpe, only officer arrested so far, is arraigned in court on sexual abuse and assault charges; his lawyer says he is innocent; investigators say sequence of events remains clouded by contradiction and reluctance of some officers to cooperate; photos (M)
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Poor Parish Fights a Rule: A Term Limit On Its Pastor
Date: 16 August 1997
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
Rev John O Grange, who has been priest in parish of St Jerome, one of poorest of the poor in the South Bronx, NYC, since 1977, is fighting rules of Archdiocese of New York that allows him to be priest for only two six-year terms; archdiocese has given Father Grange a one-year reprieve, to June 1998 (L)
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With Giants Approaching, Parcells Shrugs
Date: 16 August 1997
By GERALD ESKENAZI
New York Jets coach Bill Parcells refuses to be unnerved by preseason game between Jets and New York Giants, team he took to Super Bowl twice, on Aug 16 (M)
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Good News, Bad Reaction. What's Going On Here?
Date: 16 August 1997
By FLOYD NORRIS
Analysis of 6.8 percent drop in Dow Jones industrial average in last seven trading days, which has stunned Wall Street in large part because there is no easy explanation for it (L)
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U.S. Increases Its Lead in World Market for Weapons
Date: 16 August 1997
By PHILIP SHENON
Congressional Research Service's annual arms survey finds United States pulled further ahead as world's biggest weapons merchant in 1996; survey shows American share of weapons market was up by 23 percent, to $11.3 billion in orders, at time when global market was growing at only 5 percent; United States received 35.5 percent of orders, Britain received 15.1 percent and Russia got 14.5 percent; together, US, Britain and Russia are responsible for nearly two-thirds of world's arms sales; graph (M)
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Tainted Patties Are Estimated In the Millions
Date: 16 August 1997
By DAVID STOUT
Agriculture Dept now says that as many as five million hamburger patties sold across country may have been contaminated with potentially deadly E. coli bacteria; hamburgers were made in early June at plant in Columbus, Neb, owned by Hudson Foods Co and sold under Hudson brand name; Agriculture Dept spokesman Tom Amontree says Agriculture Dept inspectors' examination of records of Hudson's Nebraska plant found that more than 1.2 million pounds of patties might be tainted, rather than the 40,000 pounds reported by the company; Nebraska plant under investigation produces frozen ground-beef patties for, among others, Burger King, Boston Market, Wal-Mart and Sam's Club (M)
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FULTON FINANCIAL TO BUY KEYSTONE HERITAGE
Date: 16 August 1997
Fulton Financial Corp, fifth-largest bank in Pennsylvania, to buy Keystone Heritage Group Inc for about $210 million in stock to increase its business in state (S)
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Idyllic Setting for Play Is the Scene of Intensive Work on the Jewish Liturgy
Date: 16 August 1997
By GUSTAV NIEBUHR
Rabbi David L Blumenfeld runs summer seminar to teach small groups of Jewish adults the basic skills to lead religious service; intended beneficiaries are lay people, mainly those in smaller congregations that lack fulltime rabbi or cantor (M)
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REPUBLIC INDUSTRIES ADDS TO CAR DEALERSHIPS
Date: 16 August 1997
Republic Industries agrees to buy car dealerships in Florida and Nevada in transaction valued at $26 million; Republic buys Kenyon Dodge of Clearwater and Tom Coward Lincoln-Mercury of Las Vegas (S)
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