A Growing Clash of Visions At The Los Angeles Times
Date: 13 October 1997
By James Sterngold
James Sterngold
Efforts of Times Mirror Co chief executive Mark H Willes, new publisher of Los Angeles Times newspaper, to shake up company's lackluster business performance are raising ethical concerns in journalistic community; Shelby Coffey 3d, resigned hastily as paper's editor to make way for new system; Willes has set reorganization that will let editors and journalists consult regularly with advertising and marketing executives, breaching wall that has long separated two at most major newspapers (M)
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Interviewer Builds Life in Katonah
Date: 12 October 1997
By Cynthia Magriel Wetzler
Cynthia Wetzler
Article on Fox News Channel interviewer Catherine Crier who has settled with husband, Christopher Wilson, in Katonah, NY, and opened Antipodes, gallery specializing in Australian art; photo (M)
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Word & Image; Why So Foreign?
Date: 12 October 1997
By Max Frankel
Max Frankel
Article by Max Frankel scores nightly television newscasts that provide little coverage of foreign news; says people who make bankable international stars of Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather should know how to get us to watch anything; drawing (L)
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Bad Guys, Good Guys: Journalists in the Movies
Date: 13 October 1997
By Bernard Weinraub
Bernard Weinraub
Hollywood's ambivalence in its portrayal of journalists discussed in light of new film Mad City; photos (M)
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American Orders For Machine Tools Increased in August
Date: 13 October 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Association for Manufacturing Technology and American Machine Tool Distributors' Association report American orders for machine tools rose 10.2 percent to estimated $703 million in Aug, up from revised $638 million in July (S)
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HSBC Holdings Changes Guard
Date: 13 October 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sir William Purves to retire as HSBC Holdings PLC chairman May 31 and be succeeded by John Bond as part of wide-ranging management shake-up; Keith Whitson will succeed Bond as chief executive; William Dalton will succeed Whitson as chief executive of Midland Bank unit; Jim Cleave will retire as HSBC Americas chief executive and be succeeded by Malcolm Burnett; Bernard Asher will retire as HSBC Investment Bank PLC chairman and be succeeded by Stephen Green (S)
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Kennametal to Buy Greenfield, the Top Maker of Drill Bits
Date: 13 October 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kennametal Inc to buy Greenfield Industries for about $623 million plus assumption of $320 million of debt and convertible preferred securities (M)
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GPU to Buy Australian State's Electrical Network
Date: 13 October 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
GPU Inc buys high-voltage electricity transmission network of Australia's Victoria state for $2.72 billion (Australian) (US $2 billion); plans to sell all its nonnuclear power generation assets to focus on power transmission (M)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 13 October 1997
INTERNATIONAL A3-11 In U.S. and Europe, NATO Costs Are Debated A rancorous and largely hidden debate is surfacing over just what the cost of NATO expansion will be. The Senate, along with the Parliaments of the other 15 NATO countries who must approve the expansion, is expected to vote early next year on the alliance's decision to admit Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, its first new members from the former Communist bloc. A1 Peace Eludes Central Africa Five months after seizing power in the former Zaire, President Laurent Kabila has yet to gain military control over its eastern province, and his rise to power has not brought peace to Central Africa as the regional leaders who sponsored his rebellion hoped. A1 Clinton Arrives in Venezuela Envisioning ''a new world in the making,'' President Clinton arrived in Caracas, Venezuela to begin his first trip to South America, planning to oversee the signing of modest agreements on energy, education and the environment -- and hoping to generate enthusiasm back home for a free trade zone throughout the hemisphere. His week-long trip is also to take him to Brazil and Argentina. A3 Union Dispute in Mexico Workers at a Korean-owned automotive factory in Tijuana, Mexico, voted last week to oust a union affiliated with the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party and to recognize one of their own choosing, but a Government labor board has refused to announce the results. American trade unionists are pointing to the case as an example of labor abuses they say are routine despite Mexico's pledges under a side accord of the North American Free Trade Agreement to respect the right of workers to form independent labor unions. A8 Questions Over Cuba Bombings The Cuban authorities are holding a suspect charged with carrying out a half dozen of the recent bomb attacks on hotels and restaurants here that have unnerved Government officials and ordinary Cubans. At a news conference last week, Cuba's Justice Minister, Juan Diaz Sotolongo, said no date had been set yet for the trial of the 26-year-old Salvadoran who was apprehended last month, Raul Ernesto Cruz Leon. Prosecutors have ''totally overwhelming proof'' of Mr. Cruz Leon's involvement in the bombings, he said, while declining to provide specific evidence. A8 Train Crash in Japan Injures 32 Thirty-two people were injured, two seriously, when two trains collided in central Japan. A Tokyo-bound express train carrying 550 passengers hit an empty passenger train near Otsuki station, about 50 miles west of Tokyo. The cause of the crash was not immediately known, but news reports said that railway officials suspected the driver of the out-of-service train may have overlooked a signal as he left the station. (Agence France-Presse) NATIONAL A12-13, B6-7 Arts Growth Is Outpacing Its Funding, Study Says Stunning increases in the numbers of American artists and arts groups over the last 30 years have far outpaced the growth in public and private support and cannot be sustained, a new Federal study says. In addition, the report holds artists themselves partly responsible for the growing alienation it sees between the public and the arts -- a gap that made recent cuts in government arts spending possible. A1 Lott Raises Millions for Party The Senate majority leader, Trent Lott, who was instrumental in killing legislation to overhaul campaign finance on the floor of the Senate last week, has raised $2 million this year through his political action committee, the New Republican Majority Fund. In addition, he is expected to help raise several million dollars more for the Republican Party on Nov. 5, at the Third Annual Senate Majority Anniversary Dinner. A1 Ballot Test for Gun Law An initiative in Washington State that would require handgun owners to pass a safety test in order to get a license to possess such a weapon has drawn the attention of both the National Rifle Association and advocates for stronger gun laws. A1 A Governor's Search for Roots Gary Locke of Washington State, the first Chinese-American governor, became the first celebrity descendant to return to Jilong, a tiny fishing hamlet in China, on a search for his roots. The village honored him with a moving reception and viewed him as a model of success. A12 Protected Area Gains Converts One year after President Clinton and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt were hung in effigy in Escalante, Utah, for announcing the creation of the new Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, area residents have come to accept limits on development of the land, which has become a rousing tourism success. A12 More Tapes to Be Released The White House said it would soon release many more video and audio tapes of Mr. Clinton at Democratic Party events that would show no evidence of criminal wrongdoing. White House officials said that up to 100 hours of tapes, covering about 100 events, would be made public this week and that they would contain little that was new or revealing. B7 Colorado Resumes Executions Colorado has scheduled its first execution in 30 years today when it puts to death a man who raped a woman and then riddled her with bullets, including nine in her face. Gary Lee Davis is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 8 p.m. for the July 1986 murder of Virginia ''Ginny'' May. May was 33 when Mr. Davis abducted her while her two small children watched and drove her with his wife to a secluded place. The two then raped her and Mr. Davis shot her to death. (AP) NEW YORK/REGION B1-5 City Uses Private Firm To Evaluate Workfare New York City is coordinating an aggressive effort to evaluate whether people on welfare are healthy enough to work for their benefits. The administration of Mayor Giuliani says that using a single, city-financed operation is necessary to discourage fraud and inconsistency in evaluating welfare recipients, and that it is pleased with the performance of H.S. Systems, a private, for-profit clinic which receives $6 million a year for the evaluations. A1 The experience of many welfare recipients inside H.S. Systems has produced skepticism about the motives of the clinic. Those suspicions are shared by some city lawmakers and welfare agency workers. B5 Cargo Traffic Rises at Port Buoyed by a strong economy and a reduction in shipping fees, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey handled nearly 12 percent more cargo traffic during the first half of this year, compared with the same period last year, officials said. B1 Crew Limits Academies Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew has moved to limit the independence of the scores of small, innovative public academies at the heart of New York City's school reform efforts of the last decade, a model that has been copied by school reformers around the nation. B1 SPORTS C1-10 Jets Fall to Marino and Miami The Dolphins defeated the Jets, 31-20, as Miami quarterback Dan Marino completed 27 of 38 passes for 372 yards and 2 touchdowns. Adrian Murrell of the Jets did not gain more than 4 yards on any of his 13 carries, for a total of 29 yards. C1 BUSINESS DAY D1-10 B.A.T. Seeks Merger B.A.T. Industries of Britain said it was conducting serious negotiations to merge its insurance businesses with the Zurich Group of Switzerland in a $32 billion deal. D1 Business Digest D1 ARTS E1-10 OBITUARIES D11 Jean Pasqualini A translator whose book about the years he spent as a political prisoner in China's labor camps first exposed the hidden world of that country's penal system, he was 71. D11 EDITORIAL A14-15 Editorials: A perilous pause on nuclear cuts; crowded out of school; Philip Taubman on the Justice Department. Columns: Anthony Lewis, Thomas L. Friedman. Bridge E6 Weather B8 Crossword E7
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 12 October 1997
INTERNATIONAL 3-15 Two Orthodox Churches Fight for Place in Russia Russia is undergoing a religious war, pitting the Russian Orthodox Church, the dominant faith in Russia and an ally of the Yeltsin Government, against the small breakaway Free Orthodox Church, which describes itself as the true heir of Russia's religious legacy. At issue is control over churches, seminaries and schools. 1 Cuba Toes Communist Line Meeting for the first time in six years, Fidel Castro and the Communist hierarchy rejected China's model of economic liberalization and endorsed policies to maintain the status quo for as long as possible. 10
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