Відтворення четвер, 5 січня 1995 р.

Man in the News: Michael Demaree McCurry; Articulate Defender

Date: 06 January 1995

By Todd S. Purdum

Todd Purdum

In his 18 years in Washington politics, Michael D. McCurry, the new White House spokesman, has learned a lot about defending Democrats in trouble, having represented a Senator facing indictment and three failed Presidential candidates with equanimity and wit. He showed those qualities just minutes after President Clinton officially announced his long-expected appointment as press secretary today, when a reporter noted that Mr. McCurry had worked in 1992 for one of Mr. Clinton's rivals for the Democratic nomination, Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, and asked if he had any reservations now.

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Quick Indignation After CBS Interview

Date: 05 January 1995

By Karen de Witt

Karen de Witt

The new House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, today started his day gnashing his teeth and condemning the news media because of a television interview with his mother. In an interview to be broadcast Thursday on the CBS News television program "Eye to Eye With Connie Chung," Mr. Gingrich's mother, Kathleen Gingrich, said her son once called Hillary Rodham Clinton "a bitch."

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Bombing of Rebel City Lets Up, But Not the Attacks on Yeltsin

Date: 06 January 1995

By Alessandra Stanley

Alessandra Stanley

There were reports today of a respite in the bombing of the embattled capital of Chechnya, as ordered by Boris N. Yeltsin. But it brought no reprieve to the Russian President, who remains under attack at home and abroad for his military offensive against the secessionist southern region. Western press reports from Grozny, the rebel capital, supported Russia's claim that bombing was limited to the outskirts of town, but Russian reports contradicted it.

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Clintons Reply to a Whisper With a Gesture and a Joke

Date: 06 January 1995

Hillary Rodham Clinton responded today to the cutting remark made about her in a television interview with a gentle dose of hospitality, and President Clinton defused the situation with a bit of humor about his own outspoken mother. In an interview broadcast tonight on the CBS News program "Eye to Eye With Connie Chung," Representative Newt Gingrich's mother, Kathleen, was coaxed into saying that her son had referred to the First Lady as "a bitch." Mrs. Gingrich made the remark after Ms. Chung urged her, "Why don't you just whisper it to me, just between you and me."

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Journalist Is Artist, Judge Says, Denying Pay

Date: 05 January 1995

By Peter T. Kilborn

Peter Kilborn

In a decision that could have widespread implications for the nation's newspapers, magazines and broadcasters, a Federal judge here has ruled that many of today's journalists are too creative and talented to be regarded as drones of the workplace. They are real professionals, said Judge Norma Holloway Johnson of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in a case involving a former top reporter for The Washington Post. And that, she said, makes journalists ineligible for the premium pay -- one-and-a-half times the regular hourly wage -- that the law requires for factory workers and most others who put in more than 40 hours a week.

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A Russian Newspaper Turns More Scornful

Date: 06 January 1995

By Alessandra Stanley

Alessandra Stanley

Most Russian newspapers have been unsparingly critical of the Government's offensive in the secessionist region of Chechnya, but the Wednesday issue of Moskovsky Komsomolets was by far the most withering. Beneath a front-page headline that read, "The Most Talentless Commander in Russia," editors superimposed a photograph of a grinning Defense Minister, Pavel S. Grachev, over another of dead Russian soldiers laid out on the snow. The doctored photo makes it look as if the general's left foot is shoved against one body.

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Victor Riesel, 81, Columnist Blinded by Acid Attack, Dies

Date: 05 January 1995

By Lawrence Van Gelder

Lawrence Gelder

Victor Riesel, the crusading syndicated labor columnist who was blinded by an acid attack in 1956, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 81. The cause of death was a heart attack, according to his son, Michael.

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I.B.M. Treasurer Will Retire

Date: 05 January 1995

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The International Business Machines Corporation said today that Frederick W. Zuckerman would retire this month as treasurer of the computer company. I.B.M., based here, said Mr. Zuckerman, who is 60, would be succeeded by Jeffrey Serkes, assistant treasurer.

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NBO STORES FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION

Date: 06 January 1995

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

NBO Stores Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection from its creditors yesterday, only days after the investor William F. Taggart acquired the men's clothing store chain. Mr. Taggart recently led Herman's Sporting Goods Inc. out of bankruptcy. NBO, based in Fair Lawn, N.J., said it would use the bankruptcy process to close underperforming stores. NBO, whose stores are in metropolitan New York and metropolitan Washington, sought court protection from creditors in United States Bankruptcy Court in Newark. Mr. Taggart acquired NBO last weekend from Toronto-based Dylex Ltd. for an undisclosed price.

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AMDURA SEEKS TO MERGE WITH SPRECKELS INDUSTRIES

Date: 06 January 1995

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Amdura Corporation proposed yesterday that it merge with Spreckels Industries through a tax-free exchange of stock. The proposal values Spreckels class A common stock at $11.94 a share, a 42.5 percent premium over Wednesday's closing price of $8.375. Spreckels has about 4.75 million shares outstanding, giving the offer an indicated value of more than $56 million. Spreckels stockholders would get a 58 percent stake in the combined company, according to a letter that Amdura sent to the Spreckels board on Wednesday. Amdura shareholders would own the rest. Spreckels, based in Pleasanton, Calif., manufactures materials-handling equipment and processes sugar. Its stock jumped $1.50, or 17 percent, to $9.875, in Nasdaq trading.

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