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After 8 Months, Pete Hamill Leaves The Daily News

Date: 05 September 1997

By Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni

Mortimer Zuckerman, owner of The Daily News, announces that Pete Hamill's tenure as editor in chief is over, making Hamill the third editor in less than five years to leave or be removed from paper's top newsroom position; Zuckerman says that exec editor, Debby Krenek, will take over Hamill's responsibilities for time being; Hamill held job for just eight months; Zuckerman memo says that Hamill decided to resign, but several sources at paper say he was essentially forced to leave; photo (M)

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'Diana Had It Coming'

Date: 05 September 1997

By A.m. Rosenthal

A M Rosenthal Op-Ed column on death of Princess Diana; holds almost as sickening as crash that killed Diana are excuses used to justify gang of photographers who chased her to her death (M)

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Celebrity, Then and Now

Date: 04 September 1997

Editorial questions celebrity-worship that has made Diana, Princess of Wales, public obsession and overwhelming news coverage of her death; holds advances in media technology have forced qualitative change in way famous people conduct their lives (M)

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In Life and in Death, a Front-Cover Favorite Whose Star Quality Hopped the Atlantic

Date: 04 September 1997

By Robin Pogrebin

Robin Pogrebin

American public's fascination with Diana, Princess of Wales discussed; aggressive component in British tabloids' coverage was mostly missing from her relationship with American mass media; her frequent appearances on American magazine covers recalled (M)

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Full Text of a Ransom Note Is Disclosed in Ramsey Case

Date: 04 September 1997

By James Brooke

James Brooke

Rocky Mountain News publishes full text of 370-word ransom note found at Boulder, Colo, home where JonBenet Ramsey, 6, was killed in Dec 1996; disclosure comes amidst public relations battle between her parents, John and Patricia Ramsey, and Boulder police (M)

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A Reporter Is Sentenced Over Article in Malaysia

Date: 05 September 1997

By Seth Mydans

Seth Mydans

Malaysian court sentences Murray Hiebert, Canadian reporter for The Far Eastern Economic Review, to three months in jail for contempt of the judiciary in an article describing court's handling of lawsuit brought by judge's wife against her son's school (S)

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Photographers Invoke Their Right to Privacy

Date: 04 September 1997

By Craig R. Whitney

Craig Whitney

Several of six photographers and motorcyclist under suspicion of contributing to crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales invoke France's strict privacy laws and refuse to be photographed or interviewed; those who speak to media choose own interviewers and insist they did not cause crash; many of their colleagues refuse to take pictures of Paris court scene to protest what they see as unfair attempt to blame photographers for crash; photographer Romuald Rat says he did not arrive at scene until after crash, television interview; photo (M)

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Panama's Move to Oust Editor Sets Off Storm

Date: 04 September 1997

By Larry Rohter

Larry Rohter

Gustavo Gorriti, Peruvian journalist and associate editor of La Prensa, Panama's leading newspaper, is battling expulsion from Panama; has angered ruling elite with articles detailing corruption and other questionable practices in campaign and administration of Pres Ernesto Perez Balladares and his party; Perez Ballardares has rejected requests by human rights groups and State Dpartment that he halt expulsion effort; Gorriti has taken refuge in newspaper office (M)

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3 More Held In the Inquiry Into the Crash

Date: 05 September 1997

By Craig R. Whitney

Craig Whitney

French police detain three more photographers who snapped pictures of car wreck that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, after chase in Paris; three turn themselves in; they and six others under investigation have denied being near Mercedes when it rammed support pillar in tunnel at high speed; photo agency owner says two of his photographers took pictures and left before police arrived; Francois Levy says he sped through tunnel just ahead of Mercedes, saw headlights of two motorcycles on either side of it, and saw one motorcycle make fishtail maneuver in front of Mercedes; says Mercedes then veered back and forth, he heard crash, and then two motorcycles sped away past him (S)

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Tabloids In London Scream Softly

Date: 04 September 1997

By Youssef M. Ibrahim

Youssef

British tabloids are keeping low profile in wake of death of Diana, Princess of Wales, to reduce public outrage over their usual frenzied coverage of her; have shifted to kinder tone in discussing her relationship with Emad Mohamed al-Fayed, who died with her in car crash (M)

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