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Date: 27 April 2000
United States Navy is investigating deaths of three American marines whose remains were concealed in cave on Okinawa from end of World War II until 1998, when police in town of Naha, acting on tip, discovered their remains; Japanese news media reports town residents and Japanese soldiers killed three marines for raping Okinawan women (S)
Date: 27 April 2000
By Edna Buchanan
Edna Buchanan
Op-Ed article by Edna Buchanan, journalist from Miami, describes impact of constant media coverage in Elian Gonzalez case; says crowds outside home of boy's Miami relatives performed for TV cameras, as did relatives themselves; says simple family of Cuban immigrants, advised by lawyers and politicians, quickly became media-savvy; says family was entractable in its negotiations with Justice Dept because it was emboldened by constant press coverage and access to news media; says for most Miami Cubans, issue is not future of small boy, it is using international press to thumb their noses at Fidel Castro; drawing
Date: 27 April 2000
By James Barron
James Barron
Public Lives column notes that James P Rubin is leaving his job as State Dept spokesman and moving to London to live with his wife, television correspondent Christiane Amanpour and their infant son; notes that Inside Edition senior correspondent Craig Rivera blocked runaway carriage horse with his car and grabbed his reins in Midtown Manhattan; notes that friends of late Russian journalist Artyom Borovik recently gathered in Park Avenue apartment to remember him; photo (M)
Date: 27 April 2000
By Susan Sachs
Susan Sachs
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's most powerful Muslim cleric, calls country's now-silenced liberal press a deviant force bent on turning country against Islam; scattered protests continue against abrupt closing of 13 newspapers; Khamenei praises Pres Mohammad Khatami, champion of reform movment, in effort to distinguish between Khatami and his journalistic and political supporters (M)
Date: 27 April 2000
By Howard W. French
Howard French
One of Japan's most popular television programs is Strange Things About the Japanese, weekly show in which Japanese-speaking foreigners mix idiocy and bully boy cruelty to criticize life in Japan and Japanese people in general; show slyly uses foreigners to criticize aspects of society that much of Japanese news media treats with kid gloves; show works as Japanese entertainment, unthreateningly highlighting country's unusual situation as island of high prosperity inhabited by provincial, nearly homogenous and inwardly turned people; photo (M)
Date: 28 April 2000
By Susan Sachs
Susan Sachs
Iran's Islamic hard-liners intensify their attack on reformers, summarily closing a daily newspaper run by brother of Pres Mohammad Khatami and another newspaper run by a Khatami adviser who was target of an assassination attempt in March; court orders accuse two papers, Moshareket and Sobh-e Emruz, of all-encompassing crimes of insulting Islam and spreading corruption; photo (M)
Date: 27 April 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Miami Herald's coverage of fallout from predawn raid that took Elian Gonzalez from home of his Miami relatives focused in part on failure of efforts by community leaders to broker peaceful settlement of custody dispute; Herald's reporters did not know that community leaders had called Atty Gen Janet Reno from office of Herald's publisher, Alberto Ibarguen, who heard whole conversation but agreed to keep it confidential; Ibarguen says he offered to leave room when call was made, but that four negotiators said he could stay if he considered conversation confidential; various journalism experts express different opinions about Ibarguen's actions (M)
Date: 28 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
CheckFree Holdings says it will buy Bank of America's online bill payment service; in exchange, Bank of America will receive 16 percent stake in CheckFree; stake, valued at $325 million, would make bank CheckFree's largest shareholder (S)
Date: 28 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
VA Linux Systems cuts $60 million in cash from its agreement to buy Andover.Net and will acquire company for $279.3 million in stock; VA Linux agreed on Feb 3 to buy Andover.Net in cash and stock transaction then valued at $1.04 billion (S)
Date: 27 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Alpharma Inc agrees to buy Roche Holdings' animal drug business for $300 million (S)