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Date: 13 October 2002
By Nancy Haggerty
Nancy Haggerty
Article on abrupt closing by Cablevision of News Center 6 station, which had been serving more than 60,000 households in New York's Dutchess and Putnam counties for nearly 20 years; Cablevision fired 11 of 16 employees and reduced staff at News 12 Westchester as well; photo (M)
Date: 14 October 2002
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Tensions between White House press secretary Ari Fleischer and journalists escalate; reporters claim that they cannot remember any administration that was less forthcoming or more grudging in informing press; cite paucity of presidential press conferences and lack of briefings by administration policy experts; White House claims strict adherence to own message and break from tradition of gossip-mongering; table outlines Fleischer's morning; photo (M) invocation of national security constraints since Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; photo; table (M)
Date: 14 October 2002
By Francis X. Clines
Francis Clines
Leaders of manhunt for sniper in suburban Maryland tone down news media presence amid concern that gunman might be taking cues and encouragement from multiple daily police news conferences; Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A Moose comments; photo (M)
Date: 13 October 2002
By Francis X. Clines
Francis Clines
Huge media coverage of sniper killings and public fear in Washington, DC, area discussed; photo (M)
Date: 13 October 2002
By Seth Kugel
Seth Kugel
Horace Mann Record, weekly New York City high school newspaper, is celebrating its 100th volume with star-studded panel discussion on freedom of the press; photos; drawing (M)
Date: 13 October 2002
By John F. Burns
John Burns
Journalists tour industrial plant in Al Furat, Iraq, identified by Pres Bush as one of sites of past nuclear programs being rebuilt by Pres Saddam Hussein and leave with few clues as to plant's real purpose; tour is marked by ambiguities and frustrations; Iraqi officers in charge flatly deny plant has anything to do with nuclear technology, but realities glimpsed by visitors left many with sense that they may have been less than candid; facility described; maps; photo (M)
Date: 13 October 2002
INTERNATIONAL 3-8 Rumsfeld Orders Military To Speed Its Mobilization Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said that he has ordered the military's regional commanders to rewrite all of their war plans to capitalize on precision weapons, better intelligence and speedier deployment. That way, he said, the military could launch combat operations on less notice and with far fewer troops than thought possible -- or even wise -- before Sept. 11. 1 Indonesian Disco Bombed A powerful car bomb detonated in front of a discotheque on the popular Indonesian resort island of Bali, killing at least 150 and wounding more than 200 others, officials said. Western officials said that several Americans and Australians were presumed among the dead. 1
Date: 14 October 2002
INTERNATIONAL A3-10 Rumsfeld War Guidelines Call for Early Action Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, in a personal set of guidelines for committing forces to combat, wrote that leaders must quickly judge when diplomacy has failed, then ''act forcefully, early, during the pre-crisis period'' to foil an attack on the nation. A1 Bali Death Toll Rises The death toll in the car bombing in Bali, Indonesia, climbed to at least 184, including at least 2 Americans. A dozen of the 300 injured survivors were in critical condition and another 30 bodies were believed to be buried in the rubble. The attacks were being attributed to Indonesian terrorists, possibly linked to Al Qaeda or other Islamic extremists. A1
Date: 14 October 2002
By Tina Kelley
Tina Kelley
Eddie Hausner, 76, who held lens to