Businessman Is Charged In Beating of Publisher
Date: 05 February 1999
Zakir Siddiqui, owner of Brooklyn travel agency, is arrested and charged with ordering the beating of Shafqat Chughtai, publisher of community newspaper who wrote a series of exposes on the travel agent's business practices (S)
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AMERICAN MEDIA SELLS RIGHTS TO 2 SOAP OPERA MAGAZINES
Date: 05 February 1999
By Dow Jones
Dow Jones
American Media Inc ends publication of Soap Opera News and Soap Opera Magazine and sells two publications' trademarks to Primedia Inc; terms undisclosed (S)
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Lawyers for 5 Jail Guards Say Clients Are Unjustly Demonized
Date: 06 February 1999
By David M. Halbfinger
David
Lawyers for five guards at Nassau County Jail who were transferred in Jan after death of Thomas Pizzuto, inmate who was savagely beaten, criticize news media for unjustly depicting guards as 'murderous brutes'; predict that they will eventually be exonerated (M)
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Chelsea Clinton's Privacy
Date: 06 February 1999
Editorial says People magazine article on Chelsea Clinton does not justify the alarm voiced by her parents (M)
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Publisher's Beating Illustrates Passions Aroused by Immigrant Papers
Date: 06 February 1999
By Susan Sachs
Susan Sachs
Shafqat Chughtai, publisher of Sada-E-Pakistan, newspaper for Pakistani immigrants living in Midwood section of Brooklyn, is beaten in his office by gang of bat-wielding men; Zakir Siddiqui, prominent Pakistani travel agency owner who had been accused in Chughtai's newspaper of cheating his fellow immigrants, is charged with ordering attack; photo (M)
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CHANCELLOR SAYS CLEAR CHANNEL IS INTERESTED IN A DEAL
Date: 06 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Chancellor Media Corp says it received expressions of interest from Clear Channel Communications Inc and other companies about possible acquisition or other transaction (S)
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ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS SHARES FALL 7.5 PERCENT
Date: 06 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Electronic Data Systems Corp fall 7.5 percent, or $3.875, to $48.125 after company says legal dispute with Xerox Corp reduced fourth-quarter revenue by $200 million (S)
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GATEWAY TO EXPAND PLANT AND HIRE 1,000 MORE WORKERS
Date: 06 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gateway Inc to expand its personal computer plant in Hampton, Va, adding 1,000 workers to meet rising demand for its products; is also building 55-acre campus adjacent to the existing site for vendors and component suppliers (S)
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FORD RESUMES PRODUCTION AT ALL BUT 2 ASSEMBLY PLANTS
Date: 05 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ford Motor Co resumes full production at all but two of its US assembly plants as its complex in Dearborn, Mich, gears up after power plant explosion killed one worker on Feb 1 (S)
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MEDPARTNERS PLANNING $1 BILLION CHARGE, ANALYST SAYS
Date: 05 February 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Piper Jaffray analyst Brooks O'Neil says Medpartners Inc, working to transform itself from largest US manager of group-medical practices to drug-benefits administrator, will take charge of $1 billion when it reports its fourth-quarter earnings (S)
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