Doctors Rush Beating Victim To Surgery
Date: 29 August 1997
By JOHN KIFNER
John KIFNER
Medical condition of Abner Louima, Haitian immigrant who says he was brutalized by police officers in Brooklyhn precinct house, takes turn for worse, and he undergoes further surgery; his physician says 'surgery went fine' and there are no complications; Louima's faltering condition postpones longed-for reunion with his daughter, Abnia Samantha, whom he has not seen in seven years since he fled Haiti; photo of Dr Jean Claude Compas, Louima's physician (M)
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EQUITY RESIDENTIAL TO PAY $625 MILLION FOR RIVAL
Date: 29 August 1997
Equity Residential Properties Trust, a Chicago real estate investment trust controlled by financier Sam Zell, plans to pay about $625 million in securities to buy rival apartment company, Evans Withycombe Residential Inc, based in Scottsdale, Ariz (S)
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Lobo Sparks Liberty Into Title Game In W.N.B.A.
Date: 29 August 1997
By TARIK EL-BASHIR
Tarik EL-BASHIR
Liberty defeats Mercury in semifinal playoff game, 59-41, Phoenix; photo of Liberty player Rebecca Lobo (M)
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O'Neill Deals With Gaffe
Date: 29 August 1997
By JACK CURRY
Jack CURRY
New York Yankee outfielder Paul O'Neill comments on his costly fielding error that allows Oakland Athletics to defeat Yankes, 8-7; photo (S)
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HECHINGER ACCEPTS REDUCED OFFER FROM LEONARD GREEN
Date: 29 August 1997
Hechinger Co will accept 21 percent lower acquisition offer of $2.375 a share, a total of $100.2 million, from Leonard Green & Partners LP because Hechinger's second-quarter loss was worse than expected (S)
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Rabin Showed Willingness To Give Golan Back to Syria
Date: 29 August 1997
By DOUGLAS JEHL
Douglas JEHL
Former Israeli official Itamar Rabinovich confirms newspaper report that Prime Min Yitzhak Rabin of Israel told Secretary of State Warren Christopher in 1994 that he would consider restoring Golan Heights to Syrian control if Pres Hafez al-Assad accepted strict conditions set by Israel on matters including security, diplomatic relations and open borders; in public, Rabin had always vigorously objected to Assad's insistence that Israel withdraw to line that divided two countries before 1967 Middle East war; Israel's current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed never to return any part of Golan (M)
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Congo Blocks U.N. Inquiry Into Report of Killings
Date: 29 August 1997
By BARBARA CROSSETTE
Barbara CROSSETTE
United Nations team sent to investigate reports that Hutu refugees from Rwanda were killed by troops loyal to Congo's new leader is thwarted by Congolese Government of Laurent Kabila; UN spokesman Fred Eckhardt says Kabila Government has made unreasonable demands, including that lead investigator be replaced (M)
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Deal Spotlights New Shrewdness in Detective Business
Date: 29 August 1997
By JOSEPH B. TREASTER
Thomas O'Gara, whose Ohio company builds bulletproof limousines, courted Jules B Kroll, founder of Kroll Associates, world's leading business investigations firm, even offering to put Kroll in charge of new combined company called Kroll-O'Gara; merger represents something of coming of age not only for Kroll Associates but also for many in investigations industry that Kroll pioneered; some of Kroll Associate's celebrity cases noted; photos (L)
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2 Top Executives Leaving Valuevision
Date: 29 August 1997
Valuevision International Inc says chief executive Robert Johander and chief operating officer Nicholas Jaksich will step down and that company will consider options include a merger (S)
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