Disliking Coverage, Cleveland's Mayor Retaliates
Date: 28 May 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Mayor Michael R White of Cleveland bars reporter and photographer from Plain Dealer from news conference at which he announces to rest of local news media that he will not seek re-election to fourth term; says Plain Dealer has been unfair in its coverage of him (M)
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At 158 Years and Counting, A German Paper Pushes On
Date: 27 May 2001
By Eva Schweitzer
Eva Schweitzer
Article on tenuous fate of weekly New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, 158-year-old German-language newspaper; owner-publisher Jes Rau now runs paper from his home in Sarasota, Fla; managing editor Lars Halter quit in April and Rau is unsure how to appeal to younger readers; photo (M)
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Discussion Groups for Just About Anything That Suits the Fancy
Date: 27 May 2001
By Debra Morgenstern Katz
Debra Katz
Article on rising number of Long Islanders who are forming and joining discussion groups in order to keep informed on current events, foreign policy, globalization and other diverse topics; group leaders comment; photos (M)
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Stanley Cup Watchdog Never Misses His Shift
Date: 27 May 2001
By Liz Robbins
Liz Robbins
Stanley Cup travels from city to city during playoffs with four Hall of Fame employees, who handle it for media and fan appearances; photo (M)
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2 Buyout Firms Will Acquire Yell of Britain
Date: 28 May 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hicks Muse Tate & Furst Inc and Apax Partners & Co agree to buy Yell Group, yellow-pages unit of British Telecommunications, for 2.14 billion pounds (S)
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Corrections
Date: 28 May 2001
Correction of May 6 article: list of companies that signed brief supporting Alice Randall included CNN, but not its parent, AOL Time Warner; list also included New York Times Co
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 27 May 2001
INTERNATIONAL 3-13 NATO Plan for Bosnia: Modest Troop Reductions Resisting Pentagon pressure, NATO has decided to make only modest cuts in its peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, officials said. Under a plan expected to be announced on Tuesday, the alliance's peacekeeping force would be reduced from 21,000 to 18,000 and the U.S. contingent would be reduced to 3,100. 4 Powell Nudges Kenya's Leader Secretary of State Colin L. Powell met with Daniel arap Moi, who has been Kenya's president since 1978, and urged him to step aside and let a new president be elected next year. It repeated a message General Powell had sent to the president of Zimbabwe during a visit earlier this week. 12
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 28 May 2001
INTERNATIONAL A2-6 U.S. Plans Offer to Russia To End ABM Treaty Dispute The Bush administration, in an opening offer to Russia to win cooperation in scrapping the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, is preparing to propose a broad package of arms purchases, military aid and joint anti-missile exercises, said officials devising Mr. Bush's strategy. They said the plan is likely to include an offer to buy Russian-made missiles that could be used in a defensive shield over Russia and Europe. A1 Foreign Policy Challenges President Bush's broad foreign policy agenda, and not just the hope of deploying a defensive missile system, is at risk of being frustrated in a Democratic-controlled Senate, which can be expected to give closer scrutiny to easing troop commitments in the Balkans and will probably support a more active engagement in the Middle East. A5
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Media Talk; NBC Shuffles Its All-Star News Producers
Date: 28 May 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
NBC News has made extensive management changes, and rivals hope this may give them change to whittle away at NBC's lead in ratings; NBC says new lineup will make it more competitive; photo (S)
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Marqueeta Curtis, Jerry Haynes
Date: 27 May 2001
Marqueeta Lynn Curtis and Jerry Haynes were married yesterday at Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Louis. The Rev. David Marth, a Lutheran minister, officiated, and the Rev. Edward Haynes, a Baptist minister and a brother of the bridegroom, took part in the ceremony. Mrs. Haynes, 43, is a news writer for WBBR-AM, the Bloomberg radio news station in New York. She was until last fall a writer for ''The Early Show,'' a morning television program on CBS. She graduated from Illinois State University. She is a daughter of Audrey Curtis of O'Fallon, Ill., and the late Millard Curtis Sr.
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