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Date: 17 September 1994
By John J. O'Connor
John O'Connor
Some images linger from a recent vacation in Berlin: Sad faces of children, often crying, fleeing places like Rwanda and Bosnia. Commercials for contour pillows and shiatsu-massage devices. Weather reports covering the globe in 150 seconds or less. Larry King tenaciously pursuing every new tidbit in the O. J. Simpson case and badgering guests for assurances that this is really one helluva story.
Date: 18 September 1994
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
However brief it turns out to be, any United States invasion of Haiti is likely to be the most minutely documented military action in history. Several hundred reporters and photographers from television networks, newspapers and magazines are already in Haiti, with the most advanced equipment ever brought to a potential combat zone.
Date: 18 September 1994
The lower house of Parliament has approved a measure calling for prison terms of up to 10 years for anyone disclosing information interpreted as vital to Poland's interests. The measure, known as the Official State Secrets Act, would prohibit the news media from reporting on 71 areas of Government activity ranging from military to economic policy. It was approved by a vote of 268 to 75 with 19 abstentions on Thursday and is expected to win passage in the upper house this month.
Date: 17 September 1994
Lawyers for CNN asked a Federal district judge today to disregard the network's newscasts and press releases four years ago that explained why it broadcast recorded telephone calls by Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega despite the judge's order not to do so. The news reports and a statement issued by the network in November 1990 said the tapes were being made public because CNN had the right under the First Amendment. But in closing arguments in the network's trial on criminal contempt charges today, a lawyer for CNN, William B. Killian, said there was no intention of defy the judge, William M. Hoeveler, who is hearing the contempt case without a jury.
Date: 17 September 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Continental Corporation is negotiating to shore up its ailing finances with more than $200 million from the Texas investor Robert Bass and the Chase Manhattan Bank, a person familiar with the talks said yesterday. Continental, a New York-based property and casualty insurer, is said to have hired Goldman, Sachs & Company last month to line up investors to raise capital.
Date: 17 September 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
A former Salomon Brothers Inc. employee in charge of planning parties for the securities firm was sentenced to five years' probation for stealing more than $1 million by submitting phony invoices to Salomon. Herbert J. Adlerberg, an acting New York State Supreme Court justice, also ordered the party planner, Kathy Tompkins, 39, to seek psychiatric counseling. District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau of Manhattan, who prosecuted the case, had asked the judge to send Ms. Tompkins to jail.
Date: 17 September 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The United States Department of Justice filed a civil lawsuit on Thursday against the Raytheon Company, charging that it inflated the cost of a radar system it built for the Air Force. The Government said Raytheon, a $9.2 billion company that gets roughly half its sales from Federal contracts, inflated its "skill mix," or ratio of higher- to lower-skilled employees, to increase the price of the contract.
Date: 17 September 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index for early September rose to 92.2 from 91.7 in August, people with access to the report said yesterday. The University of Michigan index is based on 100, set in 1966. When the monthly reading increases, consumers are becoming more optimistic about the economy. Since 1966, the record high for the sentiment index is 101, set in March 1984. The record low is 51.7, set in April 1980. The university also said its index of current economic conditions fell to 102.9, from 108.7 in August. The index of consumer expectations, a component of the Government's index of leading economic indicators, rose to 85.3, from 80.8 in August. "It's a surprising mix," said David Resler, chief economist at Nomura Securities International. "People seem to be less confident about the present and more confident about the future." The university delays public release of the information for one month.
Date: 17 September 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The dollar tumbled against most other leading currencies yesterday, following bonds lower after a Federal Reserve report convinced many investors that factory use was rising fast enough to spur inflation. Bonds suffered their biggest one-day loss since May after the Fed said yesterday that factories, mines and utilities operated at 84.7 percent of capacity in August, the highest level since 1989. The Fed also said industrial output jumped a bigger-than-expected seven-tenths of 1 percent in August.
Date: 17 September 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Copper rose yesterday to its highest price since 1990, reflecting increased demand from automobile makers and other industrial users. Higher automobile and truck production pushed the nation's overall industrial output up seven-tenths of a percent last month, the Federal Reserve reported yesterday. Factories operated at 84.7 percent of capacity, their highest since 1989, the Fed also said.