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Date: 22 July 1999
By John M. Broder
John
Pres Clinton holds second lengthy take-all-comers news conference in month to show his command of issues and quiet any hints of looming lame-duckism; says he wants to do more, not wind down; photo (M)
Date: 22 July 1999
By Sandy Byers Harvin
Sandy Harvin
Earl Caldwell, journalist who spent 40 years covering civil rights movement for 8 newspapers, has written his memoirs; Caldwell Journals is being presented on line, in installments, by Maynard Institute for Journalism Education; it includes voices of some of Caldwell's fellow black journalists, who were rare at major news organizations in 60's; photo (M)
Date: 22 July 1999
By John Tierney
John Tierney
John Tierney column contends that most Americans are probably glad that no expense was spared to find John F Kennedy Jr's plane; maintains that many of them might also have hard time justifying government's extraordinary efforts in case, which officially was nothing more than relatively routine accident involving private citizen; holds that one way to reconcile public's conflicting sentiments would be for someone other than taxpayers to pay for salvage operation; suggests that news media should reimburse government for rescue-and-recovery bill; says New York's publishers and broadcasters can afford to pay portion of profits they have made off Kennedy this week, not to mention last 38 years (M)
Date: 21 July 1999
By Michael R. Gordon
Michael Gordon
Russian military court drops treason charge against Grigory Pasko, who disclosed Navy's dumping at sea of nuclear wastes; rules he overstepped authority as military journalist; grants him amnesty; Pasko, who spent 20 months in jail, says he will fight for complete vindication; photo (M)
Date: 21 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Healtheon Corp, which links doctors, insurers and patients through the Internet, will provide prescription services to customers of Merck & Co's pharmacy benefits unit Merck-Medco; unit will help pay for development of Internet-based service that will allow doctors to see patient's medical history and drugs available for treatment (S)
Date: 21 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tyco International Ltd will split its stock two shares for one (S)
Date: 22 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Unicom Corp acquires Midwest Mechanical (S)
Date: 21 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Enron Corp says it will exchange 76 percent of its ownership in Enron Oil and Gas Co, stake valued at $1.2 billion, for properties that Enron Oil and Gas owns in India and China (S)
Date: 21 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Corbis Corp, owned by Microsoft Corp chairman William H Gates, forms alliance with Picture Press, based in Hamburg, Germany, to sell pictures in Austria and Germany; Corbis will license 2.1 million digital images to Picture Press, unit of Gruner & Jahr Publishing House; Corbis has 65 million pictures by photographer Ansel Adams and news photographers from United Press International and other agencies (S)
Date: 22 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Nationsrent Inc agrees to private equity offering and new loans that will increase its cash to about $455 million; cash will be used in part to complete acquisitions; Nationsrent will sell $100 million in convertible preferred stock to Investcorp (S)