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PAPER: BUSH DECLINES INVITATION TO MINORITY JOURNALISTS MEETING
Presidential candidate George W. Bush will make campaign appearances in
Seattle Thursday but has no plans to address a conference of 6,000 minority
journalists meeting that will be going down at the same time, the LOS
ANGELES TIMES is planning to report, according to publishing sources.
And late Wednesday, one Bush campaign official shot back, calling the story
"nothing more than a game of racial innuendo."
The paper's Sam Fulwood III reports:
"Organizers said Bush told them his one-day trip to the Seattle area was so
overbooked he could not fit in a speech to delegates representing the
nation's four leading minority journalism organizations."
The paper notes that every presidential candidate was invited, but only
Vice President Al Gore and Democratic candidate Bill Bradley are currently
scheduled to speak at the event. [With the exception of Bush, Gore and
Bradley, none of the other presidential
candidates will be in Seattle during the convention.]
More TIMES:
"'I guess we're not green,' E.R. Shipp, a member of the black journalists
group and ombudsman at the WASHINGTON POST, said in a reference to Bush's
prodigious fund-raising. 'Even just a walk by and wave to just show us some
of his compassionate conservatism wouldn't be so bad.'"
One Bush campaign official, who request anonymity, blasted the TIMES report.
"These reporters are just trying to bring the governor down," the official
told the DRUDGE REPORT.
"What an incredibly cheap shot. First they go after his service record,
now they are implying that he is a racist?... This is nothing more than a
game of racial innuendo and its going to backfire... voters can see through
this kind of thing."
Developing late.
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SERBS FEAR DISASTER CAUSED BY NATO BOMBING OF CHEMICAL PLANTS; MAY SUE USA
In recent weeks, something in the rivers and lakes of Yugoslavia has
changed.
Fish being caught in the Tamis river are sluggish and sickly, with
protruding bones and bulging eyes.
"I personally won't eat any fish from the river. Not for the next five
years," Dragomir Djuric, president of the Tamis River Fishing Club, tells
Thursday's CHICAGO TRIBUNE.
The Yugoslav government says NATO airstrikes on chemical plants around the
country have caused an environmental catastrophe in Serbia.
"Next month, the United Nations is scheduled to conduct a formal assessment
of the environmental damage of the war," reports the TRIBUNE's Uli
Schmetzer from Pancevo.
"A young woman named Yelena, who asked that her last name not be used, said
she had an abortion this week, fearful that the fetus she was carrying
might have been harmed by the air she breathed and the water she drank."
Stories are circulating of outsized fruits and vegetables, of trees turning
bright yellow in mid-summer.
Madame Albright might want to check her liability insurance policy. There
is talk on the streets of filing a damage suit
against the United States and its leaders on behalf of the people of
Pancevo.
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GEFFEN MOVED IN TO HELP SETTLE DISNEY/KATZENBERG SUIT
The long-running lawsuit between Jeffrey Katzenberg and DISNEY was finally
settled at David Geffen's Malibu home on Monday, according to soon-to-be
published reports.
Geffen, Katzenberg's partner in the DREAMWORKSs SKG studio, forged a
settlement with Stanley Gold, a longtime DISNEY director and Eisner
confidant, in Malibu on Monday evening, James Bates of the LOS ANGELES
TIMES has learned.
Sources close to the case tell Bates that Katzenberg's final take from the
suit is probably in the $250 million to $275 million range, including
$117.5 million he received in late 1997 when the case was partially settled.
Bates reports that two DISNEY board members, former CAP CITIES/ABC Chairman
Thomas Murphy and billionaire investor Warren Buffett, had pushed for a
resolution of the case.
"When two objective and not so emotionally involved people finally got
involved, they were able to find a way to a resolution to all this,"
Katzenberg told BLOOMBERG in an interview.
Bernie Weinraub at the NEW YORK TIMES quotes The Geff
"It's the perfect definition of a settlement," Geffen tells the TIMES.
"Both parties felt they didn't get what they wanted. DISNEY paid more than
it wanted and Jeffrey got less than he wanted."
Geffen and Gold reportedly met at the Geffen home in Malibu for less than
an hour on Monday, and spoke numerous times on the phone Tuesday before
reaching the agreement.
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NOONAN WARNS GOP: HILLARY LOOKS LIKE A NATURAL
"Hand it to her: Hillary Clinton had a spectacular day yesterday as she
stood on the edge of a rolling field on Pat Moynihan's upstate farm and
announced that she may announce. It was as deft and clever a political
presentation as I've seen, a marvel of spin and more. She was poised,
articulate, both cool and warm and - a first for her -- modest. She was in
fact a natural."
So writes former GOP speechwriter to presidents, Peggy Noonan, in a
Thursday Op-Ed set for the WALL STREET JOURNAL.
"Yesterday was good news for Mrs. Clinton because it gave her wall to wall
great coverage," writes Noonan. "But it may turn out to be good news for
Republicans too, in the same way that an alarm clock going off at the right
time is good news."
Noonan writes that Hillary will be absorbing attacks and for the next nine
months, exhausting her foes by taking every blow they can throw.
"A year from now, when it matters, if the Dunleavies and Dowds, the
Brookhisers and Breslins are still attacking her they will look obsessed
and winded. She will look long suffering and glistening. The criticisms
of '99 will be but a memory. Reporters will be reduced to covering her
latest proposals. She knows this."
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FEDS STOCKPILING CASH AS 2000 BACKUP
The Federal Reserve will make an extra $50 billion available to ensure
local banks are able to meet the demands of any Y2K jitters from depositors.
But with all that extra cash soon to be in their vaults, banks are now
reviewing their security plans just in case robbers are tempted by the
prospect of beginning the new millennium with a major cash score, according
to columnist J. Scott Orr in Washington.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said in a news release [called "Don't
Take the Money and Run."]: "The funds you leave in a federally insured
account are absolutely safe. The same can't be said for the money you take
out of the bank. [And] we caution everyone about hiding a large sum of
money at home where it could be taken by a thief, misplaced by a family
member or destroyed in a fire."
The banking industry and the FDIC are urging consumers to withdraw no more
than they would need for a normal holiday weekend.
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