Hillary Clinton vs. Giuliani: Poll Finds Few Undecided
Date: 01 November 1999
By Adam Nagourney With Marjorie Connelly
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New York Times/CBS News Poll finds remarkably small number of New Yorkers undecided in contest for US Senate seat between Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Hillary Rodham Clinton, year before election; finds voter interest already equals that in single month before Election Day 1998, reflecting electorate both highly informed and opinionated about race to succeed Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who is retiring in 2001; finds both are in statistical dead heat, with Giuliani having support of 46 percent of voters and Clinton 41 percent, with 8 percent undecided; finds Clinton's favorable rating over Giuliani on health care and education, most important concerns among voters, has been offset by perceptions of her over six months that potential candidacy has received sustained attention; finds Giuliani is viewed more favorably in some important ways that in spring of 1999, with majority of voters statewide now believing that he cares more about problems and needs of New York City residents and those in surrounding suburbs; poll strongly suggests key to election is likely to be which campaign is successful in first identifying and appealing to distinct class of New Yorkers who have yet to take sides in contest, while reinforcing voters who currently support them; chart (M)
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The Big City; Cut Taxes? Not So Fast, Locals Warn
Date: 01 November 1999
By John Tierney
John Tierney
John Tierney The Big City column discusses findings of New York Times/CBS News Poll in which tax cuts were favored by only 14 percent of respondents throughout New York State and just 13 percent in New York City (M)
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Judge Decides Against Forcing Reporter to Disclose Materials
Date: 01 November 1999
Judge Lance A Ito declines to order Trish O'Kane, reporter for Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report to give prosecutors and defense lwaywers notes and tapes of interview with Randall Lee Rojas, charged in 1995 beating death of black man, Milton Walker Jr; holds interview contained nothing exculpatory for Rojas's co-defendants, Ritch Bryant and Jessica Colwell, who seek notes; says interview would help prosecutor, but that there is no need to pierce California's shield law since evidence is available through other means (M)
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Mentally Ill Man's Kin Absent From His Trial
Date: 31 October 1999
By David Rohde
David Rohde
Family of Andrew Goldstein, mentally ill man who is accused of pushing Kendra Webdale in front of New York City subway train, have been conspicuously absent from his trial, refused to participate in his defense, and declined all interview requests; jury continues deliberations; photo (M)
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2 Big U.S. Law Firms Announce Merger
Date: 01 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Rudnick & Wolfe and Piper & Marbury law firms to merge to form Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe; Lee I Miller and Francis B Burch Jr will be co-chairmen and Jeffrey F Liss chief operating officer (S)
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Pimco to Sell A 70% Stake To Allianz
Date: 01 November 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Allianz AG to buy 70 percent of Pimco Advisors Holdings for $3.3 billion (M)
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A Call From Levitt To Let the E.C.N.'s Trade
Date: 31 October 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt, addressing Senate banking committee, says market-linking system should be used to help electronic communications networks better compete with New York Stock Exchange in trading securities (S)
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A Pessimistic Forecast For Real Estate Trusts
Date: 31 October 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Investors and analysts attending real estate investment trust convention in Los Angeles express pessimism that trusts will soon recover from 19-month-long slump; graph (S)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 01 November 1999
INTERNATIONAL A3-11 Cyclone May Have Killed Thousands on India Coast A cyclone of monstrous power has left as many as 1.5 million people homeless and hundreds of villages washed away in Orrisa, one of India's poorest states. Tens of thousands of survivors are camping along road without adequate food or water more than two days after the cyclone churned across the Bay of Bengal into India's east coast. The death toll is unknown, but officials are guessing it is in the thousands. A3 New Life for East Timor East Timor began its rebirth with a huge and solemn religious procession down the waterfront road where just hours before tanks had escorted the last departing Indonesian soldiers to their ships. The waterfront was packed with thousands of people, singing hymns and offering Roman Catholic prayers. A3
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 31 October 1999
INTERNATIONAL 3-20 Last Indonesian Soldiers Leave East Timor The last 900 Indonesian soldiers remaining on East Timor began heading home, ending a failed 24-year occupation that culminated in a rampage of destruction following East Timor's vote for independence. 1 Iran Apostasy Trial Begins Muslim clerics have begun the apostasy trial of a popular politician whose fate could foretell what Iran has in store: greater democracy or harsher repression. 8 Final Talks in Ulster George J. Mitchell's rescue mission aimed at ending the stalemate in the Northern Ireland peace accord was extended past its expected weekend conclusion, with the needed breakthrough still proving elusive. 4 Beijing Issues Curbs on Sect After a week of secret deliberations, China's top legislative body imposed a stringent new anti-cult law, meant to aid the Government's crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual movement. 11 54 Die in South Korea Fire Fire swept through a three-story building crowded with diners and drinkers in the port city of Inchon. At least 54 people were killed, many of them high school students. 16 Leadership Forms in Argentina President-elect Fernando de la Rua is preparing Argentina for sharp cuts in public spending; he is revealing an open style of governing full of trial balloons and freewheeling public debate among his advisers. 20 Protest Against Zimbabwean Four gay-rights advocates were arrested in London after blocking the car of the Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, who has a history of taking stands against homosexuals, a gay-rights group said. The group was protesting the torture of two journalists in Zimbabwe, a member said. (Agence France-Presse) NATIONAL 22-38 Use of Carbon Fuels Falls, Despite Global Expansion Even as an expanding population and economic growth increase atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide that scientists say are warming the planet, the world is moving away from the carbon-rich fuels that produce the gas. The question now, experts say, is whether the trend can be accelerated enough to stave off global warming. 1 Witchcraft on the Rise Encouraged by Federal court rulings, an increasing number of books on the subject and the continuing concern for the environment, witchcraft has been growing in the United States and abroad. 1 Census Fight Is Put on Hold After three years of wrangling over the 2000 census, Republicans and Democrats have halted their fight over the use of a method called statistical sampling. 34 Boeing Withheld Report Sixteen years before T.W.A. Flight 800 exploded, a Boeing study showed that jumbo jet fuel tanks were taking in heat, but Boeing failed to report the finding until this year, Federal and company officials said. 22 Boy's Trial Spotlights New Law Two years to the day after an 11-year-old boy fatally shot a stranger walking out of a convenience store, opening statements began in his trial on a charge of first-degree murder, in a case that is drawing attention to Michigan's tough three-year-old juvenile justice law. 22 Gore's Friends, the Lobbyists Vice President Al Gore's closest confidants -- the lobbyists Tom Downey, Peter Knight and Roy Neel -- have continued to play central roles in his 2000 Presidential campaign, even while they have continued to aggressively lobby members of the Administration and, in some cases, Mr. Gore himself, on behalf of their corporate clients. 26 NEW YORK/REGION 41-49 Biggest Donors Stood to Gain From Brooklyn Art Exhibit The ''Sensation'' exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art has been financed by companies and individuals with a direct commercial interest in the works of the young British artists in the show, according to court documents and interviews with people involved in the exhibition. The museum raised money from those who stood to profit, a practice other museum executives say is almost unheard of and ethically problematic. 1 A Real Contest, for Once Off-year elections are usually uneventful in Nassau County, the kind of perfunctory exercises that bring few people to the polls. But the fiscal crisis that created a $300 million budget deficit, sent the Long Island county's debt rating through the floor, and now has prompted a 9.4 percent increase in property taxes, has whipped up interest in Tuesday's elections to an astonishing level. 41 OBITUARIES 51 Francis Whitaker A blacksmith who never shod a horse but who helped preserve the ancient craft of molding iron and elevated it to an art, he was 92. After apprenticing in Europe, he spent years crafting iron bars into artistic shapes that adorn buildings throughout the United States. Late in life, he taught his techniques to young smiths. 51 Chess 49 Weather 49 Cong.Vote 47
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