Crude Oil Prices Drop Sharply On Easing of U.S.-Iraq Tensions
Date: 14 September 1996
 
Futures prices for crude oil plunge after Iraq says it will stop firing missiles at American warplanes, signaling an easing of tensions in Persian Gulf that had pushed prices to five-month highs this week (M)
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Mexican Publisher Arrested on Tax Fraud Charge
Date: 14 September 1996
By JULIA PRESTON
 
Police arrest owner of El Universal, one of Mexico's biggest newspapers, on charges of criminal tax fraud and evasion; newspaper accuses Government of cracking down on dissent in press (M)
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Watershed Agreement
Date: 14 September 1996
 
Letter from Gail E Wittwer says no effort is being made to avoid costly filtering of New York City's water that comes from Croton Watershed (S)
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Steeple's Fall Leaves a Hole In Many Lives
Date: 14 September 1996
By DAVID GONZALEZ
 
About New York column on slender green steeple of Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church in South Bronx, NY, which will be taken down indefinitely after part of it crashed during nasty storm last January; holds steeple will not go back up until parish comes up with $450,000 to fix leaky slate roof and worn masonry; Rev John McTighe, church's associate pastor, comments (L)
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Complaints Against Doctor
Date: 14 September 1996
By TERRY PRISTIN
 
New Jersey Attorney General's office says Dr Eric Braverman, Princeton, NJ, doctor whose license was suspended in July after he was accused of malpractice, has continued to see patients; Braverman promoted alternative medicine on weekly radio show on WOR-AM until his contract was canceled in June; he says that he has treated patients only in New York, where his license is not suspended (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
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Canada Feels The Pressure Of Expectation
Date: 14 September 1996
By JOE LAPOINTE
 
Players of Team Canada feel pressure as they prepare for World Cup of Hockey championship game against US at Molson Center, Montreal (L)
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Airport Security Windfall?
Date: 14 September 1996
By TERRY PRISTIN
 
Pres Clinton's $1 billion antiterrorism proposal could be good news for New Providence, NJ-based Barringer Instruments Inc; company makes Ionscan 400, a detector of drugs and explosives used at airports around the world; only handful of companies make similar devices (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
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Everen to Trim Operations
Date: 14 September 1996
 
Everen Securities Inc will close municipal bond operations in New York and Boston amid declining sales and shrinking profit margins; it will maintain offices in Chicago, Denver and San Francisco (S)
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Park Bomb Suspect May See Part of Files
Date: 14 September 1996
 
Federal magistrate in Atlanta, Ga, rules that Richard A Jewell, security guard being investigated in bombing at Centennial Olympic park, could view parts of documents used by Federal agents to justify searches of his property; magistrate prohibits Jewell or his lawyers from disclosing anything about docments (S)
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L.I. Veto Kills Bill to Require Use of English
Date: 14 September 1996
By RICHARD PEREZ-PENA
 
Suffolk County Executive Robert J Gaffney vetoes measure to make English the county's official language; Gaffney, a Republican, rejects 'message of intolerance'; this is latest sign that Northeast is resisting English-only movement spreading through much of country; New York Gov George E Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani have spoken out against measures to deny immigrants benefits or access to services in their own languages; bill, if approved, would have set up referendum for Suffolk County voters to decide whether to bar county from printing many forms in other languages; Patrick Buchanan and Gov Pete Wilson of California have championed English-only measures; Hispanic and Roman Catholic leaders, who had opposed bill, praise Gaffney; 6.6 percent of country's population is Hispanic (M)
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