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News Digest ^ J 4MHHIMMlM|BMjMNVMMV|NMWH(ggiqgaiM0ggoqbooMttM8MO<ttMCaMMaffoMMtOOMfH<MtflMMoM&MM«o^^ page 2____Friday; October 11,1996 Time Warner, Tomer Broadcasting merge The deal will create the world’s largest media company. NEW YORK (AP) — Sharehold ers of Time Warner and Turner Broad casting System voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a $7.5 billion merger creating the world’s largest media and entertainment company. ■fiimer Broadcasting shareholders voted 99.75 percent in favor of the deal, about five hours after Time Warner stockholders voted 98.23 per cent in favor. “This is a dream,” said a triumphant Ted T\imer, the founder and chairman of Turner Broadcasting who now will become a vice chairman and largest single shareholder in the merged com pany. “Considering the difficulties we had with this merger... it was quite a job to get it completed,” Turner said after announcing the vote that followed a tough antitrust review by the Federal Trade Commission, a lawsuit from en tertainment partner U S West Inc. and widespread doubt over Turner’s abil ity to accept a No. 2 role. After a final motion was made to adjourn Turner Broadcasting’s final shareholder meeting, a tearful Turner dabbed his eyes with a handkerchief. “This is the company that I’ve al Mexican government unearths likely clues to killing conspiracy MEXICO CITY (AP)—Bones, hair and a mud-covered human skull discovered at a ranch belonging to a former president’s brother may strengthen the case against him in one of Mexico’s most notorious political killings. Mexican prosecutors suspect that the remains, unearthed Wednes day, are those of a man who con spired with Raul Salinas de Gortari to kill a political rival. Raul Salinas is the elder brother of former President Carlos Salinas. Scion of a powerful political clan, Carlos Salinas left Mexico in dis grace soon after his term ended in December 1994; he was blamed for corruption and the collapse of the country’s economy. Raul Salinas has been jailed since February 1995 on charges of plotting the murder of a top ruling party official, Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu. But prosecutors say Wednesday’s discovery could rep resent powerful new evidence in the case against Raul Salinas if foren sic tests identify the remains as those of Salinas’ alleged conspira tor, Manuel Munoz Rocha. Munoz Rocha, a federal con gressman for the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, disappeared after the Sept. 28,1994, slaying of Ruiz Massieu in Mexico City. Attorney General Antonio Lozano Gracia said the bones found Wednesday were those of a man and that authorities were treating the case as a homicide. 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On Wednesday, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. followed through on a threat to sue Time Warner for alleg edly violating antitrust laws and break ing an agreement by declining to carry its new Fox News Channel cm its cable systems. The lawsuit came just one day af ter the New York State attorney general’s office subpoenaed Time Warner to request documents for its own inquiry into whether the company violated antitrust laws by deciding not to run the Fox channel in New York State. The lawsuit should not have any im mediate effect on the deal with Turner Broadcasting. As a condition for the merger, Time Warner was required by federal anti trust regulators to carry a second all news channel on some of its cable sys terns, in addition to the Rimer-owned Cable News Network. Fox has argued that Time Warner, the nation’s second-largest cable op erator, violated its agreement to carry the Fox News Channel and put on ri val MSNBC instead. The companies also must deal with the unpleasant task of laying off about 1,000 employees whose jobs will be come redundant. the fear of pink slips.has been es pecially jolting to employees at Rimer, who until the merger had seen their ranks grow steadily. The already ac tive rumor mill in Atlanta no doubt turned faster when it was disclosed Wednesday that son Teddy Rimer was among those to be fired. Three charged witht m.nigs, robberies Members of white supremacist group call Yahweh’ their defense SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Three men with links to white supremacist groups were charged with robbing banks and setting off pipe bombs at a newspaper office and an abortion clinic as diversions. “Yahweh is my defense,” defendant Jay Merrell told U.S.Magistrate Judge Cynthia Imbrogno on Wednesday as the men were charged. “I’ll ask for nothing from the state,” Merrell added, saying he would not seek bail. “Yahweh,” an English rendering of the Hebrew name for God, is a term frequently used in the white separatist Christian Identity religion. Merrell, Charles Barbee, 44, and Robert Berry, 42, all from the Sandpoint, Idaho, area, were each charged with nine counts of bank rob bery, auto theft and use of bombs to rob a bank. Berry also was charged with being a felon in possession of a gun. If convicted, they could face life in prison without parole. No one was injured in the bomb ings. The robberies netted $108,666, documents showed. The bombers left letters with mark ings of the Phineas Priesthood, a shad owy white supremacist organization opposed to interracial marriage, abor tion and homosexuality. At least four masked men in cam ouflage, carrying assault rifles and shotguns, held up the bank both times. In the first holdup, the fleeing robbers detonated a pipe bomb inside the bank, shouting references to the Montana Freemen. The robbery occurred a week after the FBI arrested leaders of the Free men in Montana. In the April robbery, a pre-holdup bomb blast damaged a branch office of The Spokesman-Review of Spo kane; before the July heist, a Planned Parenthood clinic was bombed. All three men said they understood their legal rights, but refused to sign documents stating they did. Merrell said he did not want a court-appointed lawyer. Berry declined to make a fi nancial statement proving he could not afford to hire his own lawyer. The three were arrested Tuesday at a convenience store near Yakima, Wash., where officers seized weapons and explosives from two sports-utility vehicles and a mini-van they were driv ing, witnesses said. Btitzibans cards viewing pom chaimel BOURNEMOUTH, England (AP) —The government has decided to bar Britons from watching pornographic programs beamed across Europe by a French satellite TV channel. Heritage Secretary Virginia Bottomley told the Conservative Party conference Thursday that she has signed an order banning the sale of so called “smart cards” needed to receive transmissions by the channel Rendez vous. “As a politician and a parent, I will not tolerate gratuitous violence and filth on television,” Bottomley said. An estimated 20,000 Britons have purchased the cards needed to receive Rendez-Vous, which specializes in hard-core pom films. The government cannot stop pom channels beaming into Britain, kit can outlaw the sale of equipment needed to receive the shows. Museum buys newfound Kembrandt sketch AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) i —An Amsterdam museum unveiled a < previously unknown ink drawing by the Dutch master Rembrandt on Thursday. , The Rijksmuseum recently pur- : chased the drawing for an undisclosed sum after experts determined it was a genuine Rembrandt. Museum spokesman Frans van de 1 Avert said the portrait came from a for- 1 eign collector who approached the i nuseum to seek advice on the Irawing’s authenticity. The unsigned drawing, dated 1638 md titled “Portrait of Willem Bartolsz Ruyter,” shows a Dutch actor leaning forward and resting on his elbows. The Rijksmusuem is renowned for ts superb collection of 16th and 17th century Dutch paintings, including Rembrandt’s “Night Watch.” —; . i : ! S r ,...■ i-L'-ni. 1.111.0 -1T -u. -'-r-i, - r- r ---