Publisher Tries to Stop Leaks From the Clinton Memoirs
Date: 19 June 2004
By David D. Kirkpatrick
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Lawyers for Knopf, Bill Clinton's publisher, are trying to block leaks from his memoir My Life before its official release; legal experts say publisher has scant hope of keeping contents under wraps after copy falls into reporter's hands; Associated Press reports that it has obtained copy, disclosing several details about Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky; New York Times independently obtained another copy (M)
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Recalling Anguish in 2000, Kerry Is Mum on His No. 2
Date: 19 June 2004
By David M. Halbfinger
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Sen John Kerry at every step faces questions about vice presidency; Kerry was contestant in vice-presidential pageant in 2000; he endured weeks of speculation and vetting and came away from it not only publicly rejected by Al Gore but rankled by degree to which Gore's process had played out through news media; Kerry has intensified his own search, but little is known about it except what can be gleaned from glimpses when he is spotted meeting with one of contenders; photo (M)
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Blair Confronts Political Burdens of Iraq
Date: 20 June 2004
By Patrick E. Tyler
Patrick Tyler
British Prime Min Tony Blair, at monthly news conference, defends actions in Iraq; insists terrorism and weapons of mass destruction are greatest threat of 21st century; is facing revolt in liberal wing of Labor Party brought on not by failures of domestic policy but by Iraq policy; is also bedeviled by anti-European sentiment and Labor's poor showing in local and European parliamentary elections; Labor won only 19 of 78 seats available to Britain in European Parliament; photo (M)
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Peterson Judge to Subpoena Videotape of Juror Remark
Date: 20 June 2004
By Elizabeth Ahlin
Elizabeth Ahlin
San Mateo County, Calif, Superior Court Judge Alfred A Delucchi will issue subpoena to Peter Shaplen, who is overseeing pool news coverage of Scott Peterson's murder trial, for videotape allegedly showing conversation between juror and Brent Rocha, brother of Peterson's wife, Laci whom Peterson is charged with killing; encounter seems accidental and could have been casual, but judge must determine from tape if juror showed bias (M)
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Chief White House Lawyer Gives Testimony in Leak Case
Date: 19 June 2004
By Michael Janofsky
Michael Janofsky
White House counsel Alberto R Gonzales is questioned by federal grand jury trying to determine who leaked name of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame to columnist Robert Novak; her husband, former Amb Joseph C Wilson IV, has disputed Pres Bush's claim that Saddam Hussein had tried to obtain uranium in Africa to develop nuclear weapons; Wilson says information was provided to Novak by Vice Pres Dick Cheney's chief of staff I Lewis Libby; Gonzales photo (M)
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FOLLOWING UP
Date: 20 June 2004
By Joseph P. Fried
Joseph Fried
Following Up column: on deaths of police detectives Richard J Guerzon and Keith L Williams, who were shot to death on Queens highway in 1989 by prisoner they were driving back to jail; Jay Harrison had stolen gun from third detective's locker in Queens Borough Hall; jury agreed with families that New York City failed to provide safe workplace for detectives, but state high court found law inapplicable to 'special risks' faced by police; on Dr Gilbert Lederman, who is no longer director of radiation oncology at Staten Island Hospital, where lawsuit charged him with coercing dying George Harrison into signing autographs; Lederman is now with Cabrini Medical Center; photos (S)
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BELLSOUTH CUTS JOBS AS WHOLESALE OPERATION FALTERS
Date: 19 June 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
BellSouth Corp plans to cut 349 jobs in third quarter because its wholesale business is losing customers; says most of cuts are in Atlanta in wholesale unit (S)
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VALERO RAISES ESTIMATES FOR SECOND-QUARTER PROFIT
Date: 19 June 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Valero Energy Corp, raising second-quarter profit estimate, says earnings will exceed $4 a share (S)
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WITH POWER DEAL, ALCOA TO PROCEED ON BRAZIL EXPANSION
Date: 19 June 2004
By Bloomberg News
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SBC SELLS SHARES IN TELKOM SOUTH AFRICA
Date: 19 June 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SBC Communications and Telekom Malaysia sell 14.9 percent of Telekom South Africa Ltd to institutional investors for 6 billion South African rand ($923 million); SBC is cutting its stakes in phone companies worldwide (S)
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