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Date: 02 August 2002
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Israel's cable television commission grants country's cable providers permission to remove CNN International from their services; there have been loud complaints about CNN's coverage of conflict between Israel and Palestinians (S)
Date: 02 August 2002
By Laurel Graeber
Laurel Graeber
Laurel Graeber Family Fare column on LITE Company production of The King Stag in Prospect Park, opera Carmen in the City at Lincoln Center and It's News to Me! exhibition at Queens Borough Public Library; photo (M)
Date: 03 August 2002
John Kobylt and Ken Chaimpou use their talk show on KFI-AM, Los Angeles, to inject themselves into news, often changing very stories and issues they cover; mix coverage of scandal and crime with genuine efforts for change; say they follow no particular political agenda (M)
Date: 02 August 2002
By Christopher Marquis
Christopher Marquis
FBI has interviewed dozens of members of House and Senate intelligence committees and aides and asked them to take lie detector tests in effort to discover who leaked classified information to reporters in wake of Sept 11 terrorist attacks; number of lawmakers have refused to comply, uneasy about constitutional precedent; committee chairmen Sen Bob Graham and Repr Porter J Goss asked FBI to look into reports on Arabic conversations intercepted by National Security Agency day before attacks (M)
Date: 03 August 2002
By Jonathan P. Hicks and Mireya Navarro
Jonathan Hicks
New York Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls H Carl McCall and Andrew Cuomo finally agree to debate but there is no media outlet to carry it; debate is arranged by Gerson Borrero, El Diario/La Prensa editor and former radio talk show host on Spanish language station WNNY-AM; Borrero has been unable to find another radio station that will broadcast debate with him as host; McCall and Cuomo both say they are ready to honor commitment when arrangements are made (M)
Date: 03 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hanover Compressor Co, pipeline equipment maker faced with federal accounting inquiry and falling stock price, ousts chief executive Michael J McGhan and chief operating officer Charles D Erwin; chairman Victor E Grijalva is appointed interim chief executive (S)
Date: 02 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
MBNA Corp acquires credit card business of Alliance & Leicester, British bank, for 225 million pounds ($349 million)
Date: 03 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Aquila Inc's $415 million purchase of Cogentrix Energy Inc has been canceled because of uncertainty in electric power market (S)
Date: 03 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Electric Co agrees to buy NovaSensor unit of TRW to increase sales of sensors for manufacturing, medical and automotive industries; terms undisclosed (S)
Date: 03 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kerr-McGee Corp restates its second-quarter earnings, showing wider loss after including costs to clean up former oil, gas and chemical sites; company reports net loss of $58 million rather than net loss of $7.6 million reported on July 24 (S)/