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7th of February 2002 News
ニューヨークタイムズのトップページに 2002年2月7日 で掲載されたニュース
Germans Trying to Fend Off Murdoch for Kirch
Date: 08 February 2002
By Edmund L. Andrews
Edmund Andrews
Much of German business and political establishment appears to be closing ranks to prevent News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch from acquiring Kirch Group, which is near collapse; Kirch Group has been under siege from business partners, creditors and rivals; company has nearly $5 billion in debt, some coming due in next few months, and is losing nearly $1 billion per year on its pay television business; at least two Hollywood studios are suing it over commitments on number of viewers; Kirch may well be forced to pay more than $2 billion to buy back shares held by its business partners; biggest option is controlled by Murdoch, and Kirch executives acknowledge that they do not have money to pay it off unless they find new partner; B Sky B, satellite television broadcaster in which News Corp owns 36 percent stake, owns 22 percent of Kirch's pay TV network Premiere and has option to sell that stake back to Kirch for $1.5 billion; Kirch executives are concerned that Murdoch will use his option to wrest control of entire company; photo of founder Leo Kirch (M)
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Soon, a Chance to See if Enron Is Stranger Than Fiction
Date: 08 February 2002
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Enron Corp scandal will become television movie on cable channel F/X; F/X, unit of News Corp, has hired Artisan Pictures to develop movie; Artisan chief executive Bob Cooper comments; PublicAffairs, part of Perseus Books Group, has signed journalist Robert Bryce to write book on issue; John Wiley & Sons has signed journalist Loren Fox to write another Enron book; group of reporters for Fortune magazine, including Joseph Nocera, are expected to announce agreement with publisher to write another account; Doubleday Broadway, part of Random House division of Bertelsmann, will publish book by Mimi Swartz, journalist who may have full cooperation of Sherron S Watkins, Enron executive who wrote memo warning of company's perilous accounting tactics (M)
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World Briefing | Asia: Sri Lanka: Sentence For Threat To Newsman
Date: 08 February 2002
By Celia W. Dugger (NYT)
Celia Dugger
Two bodyguards of former air force officer are sentenced to nine years in prison in Sri Lanka for threatening Sunday Times reporter Iqbal Athas in nighttime raid that terrorized his wife and child; Athas had been writing exposes about air force corruption (S)
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Prominent Muslim Militant Is Named a Suspect in Pearl Case
Date: 07 February 2002
By Douglas Jehl
Douglas Jehl
Pakistani and American officials identify leader of Pakistani militant Muslim group as chief suspect in disappearance of American journalist Daniel Pearl; say man, Ahmed Omar Sheikh, came to their attention because of his role in kidnapping of four Western tourists in India in 1994; Sheikh was imprisoned by India but freed in 1999 in prisoner-release deal realated to hijacking of Indian Airlines jet; Pakistani security officials say they lost track of him; Jaish-e-Muhammad, Sheikh's group, is thought to have close allies in Pakistan's intelligence service; Pakistani authorities have not been willing to focus on Sheikh and his group until three suspects arrested in case implacated Sheikh; photo (M)
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Metro Briefing | New Jersey: Camden: Journalist Is Fined
Date: 08 February 2002
By Hope Reeves (NYT COMPILED BY ANTHONY RAMIREZ)
Hope NYT
Carol Saline, reporter for Philadelphia magazine, is fined $1,000 and given 30-day suspended sentence for speaking to juror during deliberations in Rabbi Fred J Neulander's murder trial in Camden, NJ (S)
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New York State Files Suit Against Maker of Software
Date: 08 February 2002
By Matt Richtel
Matt Richtel
State of New York sues Network Associates, maker of antivirus software, accusing company of restricting free speech by forcing consumers and journalists to get permission before publishing reviews of its products; lawsuit takes issue with admonition that Network Associates printed on its Web site and on software disks; it warned 'the customer will not publish reviews of this product without prior consent from Network Associates Inc'; New York State Attorney Gen Eliot L Spitzer says clause constitutes effort by company to censor consumers and to 'inhibit itself from criticism and commentary that is the essence of the free market'; lawsuit seeks financial penalties; Network Associates general counsel Kent Roberts says he plans to fight lawsuit (M)
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Confession in 1994 Case Evokes Pearl Abduction
Date: 08 February 2002
By Celia W. Dugger With Felicity Barringer
Celia Dugger
Pakistani and American officials say Ahmed Omar Sheikh, Islamic fundamentalist, is chief suspect in abduction of American journalist Daniel Pearl; cite 45-page account of kidnapping plan that Sheikh wrote 7 years ago after being jailed for kidnapping of three Britons and an American; that plan bears striking resemblances to Pearl's kidnapping; Rhys Partridge, one of Britons held captive by Sheikh, says he displayed mixture of intelligence, irrationality and intensity that led him, Partridge, to become convinced that Sheikh was psychopath (M)
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Behind the Kidnapping: Pakistan Feels Pressure
Date: 08 February 2002
By Douglas Jehl
Douglas Jehl
Analysis: mixture of bravado and inscrutability with which Pakistani officials are addressing case of kidnapped American journalist Daniel Pearl is being watched as clue to intense pressures abuduction has placed on government; Pres Pervez Musharraf's upcoming White House visit for meeting with Pres Bush is being clouded by kidnapping and some aspects of Pakistan's response; kidnapping is reminder that Pakistan continues to be riven by rivalries between security agencies unwilling or unable to dissolve old ties with Muslim militants (M)
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WHIRLPOOL SHARES FALL ON ACCOUNTING CONCERNS
Date: 07 February 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares in Whirlpool Corp fall 9.7 percent amid questions about earnings report that company released on Feb 5; questions emerged after Internet-based research firm, Briefing.com, reported that stock traders speculated company included 'nonoperating items' in its report Whirlpool denies speculation and reaffirms its 2001 earnings results and its forecast for 5 percent to 10 percent profit growth this year (S)
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WATCHGUARD IS BUYING RAPIDSTREAM FOR $48 MILLION
Date: 08 February 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
WatchGuard Technologies, maker of Internet-security software and hardware, plans to buy RapidStream Inc for $48 million (S)
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