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Date: 13 February 1997
By Steven Lee Myers
Steven Myers
Clinton Administration to let American news organizations open bureaus in Cuba for first time in nearly 30 years; hopes move will increase diplomatic and political pressure on Fidel Castro's Government; Treasury grants special licenses to 10 news organizations; Cuba has so far agreed to let only one, Cable News Network, open office (M)
Date: 12 February 1997
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Richard L Wyatt and Chris Ahearn, representatives of Food Lion supermarket chain, will appear on Nightline with Roone Arledge, president of ABC News, and Diane Sawyer, anchor of Prime Time Live, show whose report on Food Lion led to $5.5 million judgment for punitive damages against ABC; Prime Time Live will devote an hour to questions about journalistic ethics by hidden-camera techniques and misrepresentation by news personnel (S)
Date: 13 February 1997
Dallas Cowboys player Erik Williams sues Dallas and police, Federal court, charging they violated his civil rights during probe of Nina Shahravan's charges, which she later recanted, that he raped her; also sues television station KXAS and reporter who aired charges for libel, holding they should have known charges were suspect (S)
Date: 13 February 1997
By Joseph P. Fried
Joseph Fried
Biographical sketch of US Atty Zachary W Carter; notes that Carter headed trial team that won conviction against Lemrick Nelson Jr and Charles Price in 1991 stabbing death of Hasidic man, Yankel Rosenbaum, in Crown Heights; Carter is first black person to hold US Attorney's job in New York State; he was born in Washington, DC, on March 19, 1950; photo (M)
Date: 12 February 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Reuters Holdings reports 1996 pretax profit of $1.15 billion, 17 percent gain over 1995 (S)
Date: 12 February 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ericsson AB reports fourth quarter 1996 pretax profit of $533 million, 39 percent increase over year-earlier period (S)
Date: 12 February 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Johnson & Johnson will acquire Innotech Inc for $123.8 million (S)
Date: 13 February 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sears, Roebuck & Co plans plans to have 860 department stores by 2000, up from current 800 (S)
Date: 12 February 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Castle Harlan Inc acquires 60 percent stake in US Synthetic Corp for about $60 million (S)
Date: 13 February 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Norfolk Southern Corp begins tender offer for 90.1 percent of shares of Conrail Inc that it does not already own (S)