Yugoslav Chief Defends Arrest Of American For Espionage
Date: 17 March 2002
By Ian Fisher
Ian Fisher
Yugoslav Pres Vojislav Kostunica defends arrests of American diplomat John David Neighbor and senior Serbian government official Momcilo Perisic for espionage; local news media report men are suspected of leaking documents that could help convict former leader Slobodan Milosevic in his trial for war crimes at The Hague; Kostunica's statement will likely deepen his rift with Prime Min Zoran Djindjic, who has called arrests 'scandal'; Perisic has been released and Neighbor, who has diplomatic immunity, was released earlier; officials at American Embassy are outraged at arrest of Neighbor (M)
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HarperCollins To Junk Copies Of a New Book Cited as Libel
Date: 16 March 2002
By David D. Kirkpatrick
David
HarperCollins is taking rare step of destroying its inventory of Nicholas W Maier's book Trading With the Enemy that attacks journalist and former hedge fund manager James J Cramer after threat of libel suit; HarperCollins vice president-general counsel James A Fox concedes in letter to Cramer's lawyer that three pages of book contain false assertions that Cramer traded on insider information about Western Digital Corp; HarperCollins spokeswoman Lisa Herling says company will pulp about 4,000 copies of bok that it has in stock; publisher shipped 10,000 copies beginning in middle of February; will send errata notice to bookstores and reviewers correcting text and will reprint new copies without erroneous pages; Herling says HarperCollins stands by remainder of book and plans to continue promoting it as soon as new copies become available; Maier contender Cramer used his media connections to manipulate stock prices and on other occasions traded on insider information for his own financial advantage; photo (M)
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A Rabbi's New Murder Trial Will Be Moved to Avoid Bias
Date: 16 March 2002
By Robert Hanley
Robert Hanley
Second murder trial of Rabbi Fred J Neulander will be moved out of Camden County, New Jersey; photo; Judge Linda G Baxter, who declared mistrial last year, cites media coverage; Neulander is charged with hiring Leonard Jenoff to murder his wife, Carol, in 1994 (S)
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Word for Word/Temper, Temper; From bin Laden's Native Land, A Voice to Calm the Angry American
Date: 17 March 2002
By Elaine Sciolino
Elaine Sciolino
Word for World column quotes from angry letters from Americans to English-language Saudi newspaper, Arab News, and calming replies by editor, Khaled al-Maeena; photo (M)
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As Scandal Keeps Growing, Church and Its Faithful Reel
Date: 17 March 2002
By Laurie Goodstein and Alessandra Stanley
Laurie Goodstein
Sexual abuse scandal engulfing Roman Catholic Church, far from being nearly over, has only begun; across country, in effort to restore credibility, many dioceses are volunteering to turn over their records to prosecutors; publicity is emboldening more people to step forward with accusations of sexual abuse, and news media daily exposes new cases of priests accused as pedophiles and new reports of cover-ups; scandal has traumatized church's faithful, demoralized clergy and threatened hard-won moral authority of its bishops; but real extent of impact of church's life, status and future is only now becoming clear; growing number of Catholics are questioning all-male, celibate priesthood; church is at risk of losing some legal protections that have shielded it from criminal prosecution in US; financially, church is scraping to pay multimillion-dollar settlements to victims of its priests; photos (L)
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TWO PENSION FUNDS OPPOSE HEWLETT PURCHASE
Date: 16 March 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
New York State Teachers Retirement Fund and Public Em
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MARTHA STEWART LIVING CUTS JOBS AT INTERNET OPERATION
Date: 16 March 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia cuts 40 jobs in its Internet and direct-marketing unit, or about 6 percent of staff; Web unit lost $6.7 million in fourth quarter (S)
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ALAMO AND NATIONAL TO SHARE SOME AIRPORT RENTAL SITES
Date: 16 March 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
ANC Rental Corp, which operates Alamo and National car-rental chains, says Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath approved company's merger of operations at six airports over objections of rivals Hertz and Avis; ANC will move its Alamo rental sites to National at Detroit, Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, Fla, and Hartford airports and add Alamo offices to National at airports in Huntsville, Ala, and Springfield, Mo; ANC plans to combine Alamo and National rental sites at 74 airports (S)
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DELPHI SHORTENS ITS NAME TO REFLECT ITS NEW MARKETS
Date: 16 March 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Delphi Automotive Systems Corp shortens its name to Delphi Corp, reflecting push into components for appliances and electronics (S)
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