A False Challenge to News Photos Takes Root on the Web
Date: 24 September 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
False story that CNN news photos of few East Jerusalem Palestinians celebrating terrorist attack on New York really dated to 1991 has taken root around world, even though film's authenticity has been verified by CNN and Reuters, whose cameraman took images; was begun by Brazilian graduate student Marcio A V Carvalho, who sent e-mail message to list of sociologists, and forwarded to tens of thousands of people on respected Internet mailing list run by David Farber; recantation by Carvalho has not stopped e-mail, which is now being misattributed to BBC aide; second videotape of celebrations in Nablus was never broadcast after Palestinian authorities reportedly warned of threat to Associated Press cameraman and third tape was confiscated; photo (M)
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Terror Experts Use Lenses of Their Specialties
Date: 24 September 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Small cadre of journalists specializing in covering terrorism rely on unruly array of disciplines and political and commercial interests as primary sources; face difficult task of sorting out what is known from what is believed or wished and then trying to make sense of events; they, like their sources, arrived at hybrid beat through variety of doors; photo (M)
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Putin Offers Backing to U.S. for Anti-Terror Operations
Date: 24 September 2001
By Michael Wines
Michael Wines
President Vladimir V. Putin offered the United States broad support for antiterrorist operations in Afghanistan.
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Gossip Holds Its Tongue
Date: 23 September 2001
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Article on New Yorkers' lack of interest in celebrity gossip in wake of World Trade Center attacks; newspaper gossip columns have come back to life, but their presence is diminished, both in terms of column inches and viciousness of tone; photo (M)
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Some Straight Talk, Without a Step Back
Date: 23 September 2001
By William J. Holstein
William Holstein
John F Welch Jr writes in his book, Straight From the Gut, that he became deeply involved in CNBC 'war' against CNN and Lou Dobbs after Dobbs left CNBC, which is owned by GE, to return to CNN Moneyline program (S)
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Terror Attacks Put Labor Situation Into New Light
Date: 23 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The terrorist attacks in the United States and the prospect of a military conflict have cast baseball's labor situation in a new light, increasing the likelihood that negotiations will be toned down or even tabled this winter.
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Sins of the Media
Date: 23 September 2001
Robert Shogan letter disputes Douglas Sylva's September 2 review of his book Bad News: Where the Press Goes Wrong in the Making of the President
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 23 September 2001
INTERNATIONAL A3-24 With Heavy Security, Pope Lands in Kazakhstan Pope John Paul II, who has been urging restraint in response to the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States, obliquely spoke against war in his first remarks in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, as he began a four-day visit. A8 Mideast Edges Toward Meeting A second day of relative if not absolute quiet in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip appeared to pave the way for a meeting as soon as today between Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, and Shimon Peres, the Israeli foreign minister. A15
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Date: 24 September 2001
INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Israel Puts Off Plans For Arafat-Peres Meeting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel said the Palestinians had not yet supplied 48 hours of ''absolute quiet'' and once again blocked plans for a meeting between his foreign minister, Shimon Peres, and Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, despite continued American pleas for high-level peace talks. A12 There have been no Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel since the attacks on the United States, and the militant group Hamas has signaled that it has suspended the bombings. Israeli officials called the announcement a tactical move. The attacks in Israel have killed scores of people and wounded hundreds more. A12 Poland's Ex-Communists Ahead The Democratic Left Alliance, the successor to Poland's old Communist Party, won a landslide victory in national elections, not only ousting Solidarity as the governing party but reducing it to a fringe group that will have no seats in Parliament. Leszek Miller, who watched the old Communist Party crumble during Solidarity protests 12 years ago and who has helped it through the transition, will be Poland's next prime minister. A8 Amnesty Talk in Macedonia The Parliament plans discussions this week of an amnesty for ethnic Albanians, one legislator said. Blagoya Stojkovski of the Social Democratic party said the issue would be formally raised tomorrow, a day after Parliament was scheduled to wrap up preliminary voting on constitutional amendments, another important ingredient of the Western-backed peace plan. A4 Victorious Rightist in Hamburg Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany suffered a significant political defeat in state legislative elections, with Ronald Schill, left, an anti-immigration politician known as ''Judge Merciless,'' making an unexpectedly strong showing. A6 Colombian Kidnappings' Toll At least 231 foreigners, including Venezuelans, Italians, Germans and Americans, have been kidnapped in Colombia since 1996, the armed forces said. About a third of the kidnappings were conducted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. (Agence France-Presse) Blast Near Chechnya A car bomb exploded near Chechnya, killing two Russian police officers who were serving in the separatist region, the police said. (AP) NATIONAL A16-18 War on Terrorism Stirs Internment Memories The Bush administration's proposals for increased law enforcement powers to fight terrorism are provoking a debate about whether American courts would repeat the kinds of rulings that restricted the civil rights of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The debate, some legal experts say, may help define how far courts are willing to go now in giving the government latitude in its treatment of Arabs in this country. A18 A New Look at Immigration As the nation takes a closer look at who crosses its borders and why, immigration policy could change in subtle but lasting ways, analysts say. A heightened distrust of foreigners since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks could mean far fewer visas for the millions who come each year to study, work or visit, and more government monitoring of foreigners' movements once they arrive. A16 Glimpsing a Comet's Core A NASA spacecraft captured dozens of images of a comet during a weekend flyby, providing scientists only the second glimpse ever of the core of one of the glowing bodies of dust and ice. Scientists said the Deep Space 1 probe flew within 1,360 miles of the comet Borrelly, capturing as many as 50 images of its nucleus at varying resolutions. (AP) Hurricane Poses No Threat Now Tropical Storm Humberto strengthened into a hurricane, but was churning in the Atlantic Ocean and posed no immediate threat to land. A reconnaissance plane determined that Humberto had achieved hurricane-strength winds of 80 m.p.h. (AP) Baby Is Abducted and Raped A 9-month-old girl was kidnapped, raped and abandoned in a wooded area in Tampa, Fla., and was hospitalized in serious condition. Randolph Standifer, 21, was charged with kidnapping, capital sexual battery and attempted first-degree murder. He was being held without bail. (AP) OBITUARIES A27-29 Isaac Stern A violinist who in his prime was considered one of the great instrumentalists of the 20th century, and who also became a power broker in the classical music world after he led a successful campaign to save Carnegie Hall from destruction, he was 81. A28 Sally F. Reston A newspaper publisher, photographer and writer who was for 60 years as much a partner as a wife to the columnist James B. Reston of The New York Times, she was 89. A29 Solomon Sagall An early proponent of pay television who broadcast sporting events to paying audiences in theaters in the 1930's, he was 101. A27 Dr. Theodore Silverstein A scholar of medieval literature and an intelligence officer in World War II, he was 96. A29 NEW YORK/REGION A21-26 Giuliani Is Rethinking His Exit as Mayor Mayor Giuliani, reconsidering his position that the mayoral election should go on without him, believes that New Yorkers should be able to decide who leads the city out of these troubled times, even if it includes an extension of his term, people close to the mayor said. A21 Candidates Urge Turnout Two days before the rescheduled New York City primaries, some of the mayoral candidates invoked the World Trade Center tragedy in their campaigns, asserting they had skills which made them particularly well-suited to lead the city through this crisis. More than almost anything, the candidates talked about the need for New Yorkers to turn out to vote tomorrow, reflecting concern that Democrats and Republicans are either unaware that the primary has been rescheduled or are too distracted to turn out. A21 ARTS E1-8 Masur Pulls Out of Concerts The New York Philharmonic announced that Kurt Masur, its musical director, was withdrawing from two weeks of subscription concerts in December and a New Year's Eve performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony that he was to conduct. He is to undergo an organ transplant in late November. The orchestra did not specify which organ, saying only that it was not his heart. E3 A New, Different TV Season The television season finally arrives tonight, tiptoeing in as carefully as it can, still not sure if it is appropriate to try to amuse and entertain a wounded country. E1 'Kiss Me, Kate' Hangs On In a show of solidarity, the cast and crew of ''Kiss Me, Kate'' voluntarily agreed to cut their salaries in half to keep their Broadway production open for at least two more weeks. E5 SPORTSMONDAY D1-12 Bonds Nears McGwire's Record Barry Bonds hit his 65th and 66th home runs, leaving him four short of Mark McGwire's record with 12 games to play, as the Giants beat the Padres, 11-2, in San Diego. D3 BUSINESS DAY C1-12 Penguin Putnam Chief to Quit Phyllis Grann, one of the most commercially successful editors and publishers in the book business, is leaving her position as chief executive and president of the Penguin Putnam books division of the media company Pearson at the end of the year, people close to the company said. The long roster of best-selling authors she has published includes Tom Clancy, Patricia Cornwall, Dick Francis, Robin Cook, Nora Roberts, John Sandford, Steve Martini, A. Scott Berg and Amy Tan. C2 AT&T Undecided on Cable Unit At its annual strategic review last week, AT&T's board discussed at least five options for spinning off or selling the company's cable television unit but did not approve a specific plan, people close to the board said. It now appears that it will be weeks, if not longer, until the future of AT&T's cable unit is decided. C2 A New Generation of Wireless About three dozen communications engineers are voting on a proposed set of technical standards for a new generation of wireless mobile devices that could exchange data at high speeds over short distances, a big step beyond the technology that is now used in E-ZPass and other automated toll-payment systems. C11 Business Digest C1 EDITORIAL A30-31 Editorials: Rebuilding downtown; finances of terror; the right time for talking. Column: Bob Herbert and William Safire. Bridge E5 TV Listings E6-7 Crossword E2 Weather D12
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Networks Move to Revive Foreign News
Date: 24 September 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Hard news, even foreign news, is back in vogue with television networks in wake of Sept 11 terrorist attacks; networks weigh whether to redeploy forces and revive heavy overseas coverge beyond what is needed to follow current developments (M)
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