U.S. Office Encourages Antidrug Message in Magazines
Date: 01 April 2000
By Alex Kuczynski and Marc Lacey
Alex Kuczynski
Office of National Drug Control Policy has indirectly encouraged magazines to include antidrug messages in their editorial content, under little-known financial agreement with magazine industry; Salon, online magazine, reports that six magazines have benefited from media campaign drug policy office put in place; they are US News & World Report, Sporting News, Family Circle, Seventeen, Parade and USA Weekend; arrangement partly mimics one that existed with television industry that was discontinued after Salon reported on that; drug policy office and executives of six magazines say office never reads articles before publication in deciding whether to grant credit and never influences editorial content (M)
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In Mexico, Top Newsman And Network Part Ways
Date: 01 April 2000
By Julia Preston
Julia Preston
Jacobo Zabludovsky, Mexico's most influential television newsman, parts company with Televisa, extraordinarily powerful network he has worked for for decades; incoming prime-time anchor, Joaquin Lopez Doriga, says he will remain impartial in reporting on presidential campaign now under way; this marks sharp change from Zabludovsky's coverage of last presidential race, in which he was openly favorable to government; muted reaction to Zabludovsky's resignation is itself sign of times in Mexico, authoritarian one-party state that is making its way toward democracy (M)
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Correspondence/Traveling With the Pope; God Is My Co-Pilot: Packing a Bible And Lolling With the Vaticanisti
Date: 02 April 2000
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley Correspondence column on 'true nuttiness' of trying to cover Pope John Paul II's pilgrimage to Holy Land; explains that Vatican has little sense of public accountability, so that even basic information is scarcely disclosed (M)
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BAUSCH & LOMB PLANS TENDER OFFER FOR WESLEY JESSEN
Date: 01 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bausch & Lomb Inc will make tender offer for all outstanding shares of Wesley Jessen VisionCare Inc, after the company rejects unsolicited $666 million buyout offer; Bausch & Lomb will offer Wesley Jessen shareholders $34 a share in cash; Bausch & Lomb wants Wesley Jessen to drop its proposed purchase of Ocular Sciences Inc, which would create large competitor for Bausch & Lomb (S)
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Laser Maker to Cut Costs
Date: 01 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Summit Technology Inc will take first-quarter pretax restructuring charge of $3 million and eliminate 20 jobs (S)
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OFFER FOR MANNESMANN UNIT
Date: 01 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Thyssen-Krupp AG, Germany's biggest steel company, offers as much as 8.75 billion euros ($8.4 billion) for industrial business of Mannesmann AG as it seeks to build up its auto-parts and engineering units; Mannesmann declines comment on bid (S)
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Executive Leaving Salomon for the Internet
Date: 01 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Salomon Smith Barney Inc's Terry Kawaja is joining Internet communications service provider Evoke Inc as chief financial officer (S)
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Seeking Women's News
Date: 02 April 2000
Jennifer Geer letter on Jer
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 02 April 2000
Correction of headline on cover of Apr 2 Times Magazine for article on American Army officer accused of rape and murder of Albanian girl in Kosovo; Sgt Frank J Ronghi has been charged but has not yet been brought to trial
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COMPANY NEWS
Date: 01 April 2000
ROYAL AHOLD N.V., Amsterdam, a retailer, said its Tops Markets unit would take over the Sugar Creek convenience store chain. Financial details were not released. Sugar Creek has 87 stores and annual sales of $142 million.
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