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Newsday Crossword
ANIMALISMS by Sally R. Stein
Edited by Stanley Newman
ACROSS
1 Have the
role of
6 Dairy beasts
10 Minor quarrel
14 Place for a
pay phone
15 “Very funny!”
16 Johnny
Carson’s
successor
17 Lake boat
18 Molecule part
19 Choral voice
20 Hard to pin
down
23 That fellow
24 Plum center
25 Fads
29 M'A'S'H
entree
31 Salesperson,
for short
34 Seamstress
35 On the rocks
36 Slangy refusal
37 Pompous
40 Arctic birds
41 Misfortunes
42 Actor Willem
43 Compass pt.
opposite SSW
44 Oak or
almond
45 Toots one’s
own horn
46 Clumsy one
47 Collie's
covering
48 Ornery
57 Add to the
payroll
58 Movie-film
holder
59 Soup herb
60 Feeling tense
61 Poet Sandburg
62 Household
cleaner name
63 Salon colorings
64 Greek Cupid
65 Merits
DOWN
1 Kindergarten
basics
2 Fossil fuel
3 Singer Braxton
4 On the
summit of
5 Abel's
occupation
6 Bracelet
adornment
7 Tasting like
Cheenos
8 Horse-stopping
command
9 The Maltese
Falcon sleuth
10 Tilt
11 Brazilian
soccer great
12 Poker-game
starter
13 Pliers or plane
21 for Evidence
(Grafton book)
22 Point at the
target
25 Congressional-
session
broadcaster
26 “Encore
performance”
27 Got up
28 Mount Olympus
bigwig
29 Post-Office
machine
30 Enlivens
31 Housetops
32 Attraction in
Walt Disney
Worid
33 Small dogs,
for short
35 The Emerald
(Ireland)
36 Final Four org.
38 Military flyers
39 Cute
44 File-folder
projection
45 Subway
alternative
46 Toes the line
47 Niagara _
48 Backyard
building
49 Neat
50 Press for
51 Bring up
52 Roman
emperor
53 Writer Angelou
54 Khrushchev’s
domain
55 MGM mascot
56 Right-angle
shapes
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Monday, June 2, 2003 THE B ATT ALIO!
Decision could reshape rules
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WASHINGTON — Rules
governing ownership of news
papers, television and radio sta
tions are on the verge of changes
that could significantly alter
who controls what people see,
hear and read.
In a vote set for Monday, the
Republican majority on the five-
member Federal
Communications Commission
was expected to allow compa
nies to buy more television sta
tions and, in some cases, own
both a newspaper and a broad
cast station in the same city.
“When we look back in three
to five years, we will say that
this is the moment when the
media map was reinvented,”
said Blair Levin, a former FCC
official who now is an analyst
with the Legg Mason invest
ment firm.
Diverse interests opposed to
deregulation have protested the
changes ahead of the anticipated
3-2 vote favoring new rules.
These opponents contend
relaxed rules will kick off a
merger frenzy as large compa
nies gobble up media outlets,
homogenizing viewpoints and
diminishing the local emphasis
in news and entertainment.
The government adopted the
ownership rules between 1941
and 1975 to encourage competi
tion and prevent monopoly con
trol of the media.
FCC Chairman Michael
Powell. his two fellow
Republican commissioners and
many media companies say the
rules are outdated and have lim
ited companies’ growth and
competitiveness in a world
changed by cable television,
satellite broadcasts and the
Internet.
Powell said Sunday that
some industry consolidation will
follow eased rules, but he does
n't believe “there will be a mas
sive wave of mergers.”
“Just because somebody can
buy something doesn’t mean it
makes strategic or financial
sense to do so,” Powell said on
ABC’s “This Week.” “There
will be rules and restrictions.
Everything that
a media compa
ny would like to
do is not going
to be permitted.”
Powell said
the current rules
threaten the
future of free
television by
putting an unfair
burden on the
major networks
in their competi
tion with pay
television ser
vices for quality
programming.
He said court
When we look
back in three to five
years, we will say
that this is the
moment when the
media map was
reinvented.
challenges from media compa
nies could sweep away all cur
rent rules if the FCC doesn't
update them.
As the vote approached,
opposition intensified. Critics
bought television and newspa
per ads, wrote letters and e-
mails, and demonstrated outside
television stations owned by
major media companies.
Some ads have taken on
Rupert Murdoch, whose News
Corp. owns Fox News Channel,
20th Century Fox TV and film
studios, the New York Post and
other media properties.
Murdoch told a Senate commit
tee last month he has no plan for
a media buying spree after the
changes other than his proposed
acquisition of DirecTV, the
nation’s largest satellite televi
sion provider.
The critics of eased rules
include consumer advocates,
civil rights and religious groups,
small broadcasters, writers,
musicians, academicians and the
National Rifle Association.
They say most people still get
news mainly
from television
and newspapers,
and combining
the two is dan
gerous because
those entities
will not monitor
each other and
provide differing
opinions.
Lawmakers
have split mainly
along party lines.
Democrats are
demanding more
public scrutiny
of the changes
while
are supporting
— Blair Levin
Former FCC official
Republicans
Powell.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
and chairman of the Senate
Commerce, Science and
Transportation Committee, said
he opposes proposed legislation
to counter eased regulations. He
said the changes are more mod
est than critics contend.
“These rules can be justified,
these relaxations of the rules,”
McCain said on “This Week.”
McCain’s committee is to hear
testimony Wednesday from the
FCC commissioners.
A 1996 law requires the FCC
to study ownership rules
two years and repeal or n
regulations determined to
longer in the public interesi
Many changes proposed
then have remained
or were sent back to the FCC
after court challenges.
The FCC is considering rais
ing a limitation to let acompani
own television stations reacit
45 percent of U.S. households.
The overhaul also may eases
restriction on local TV owner
ship by allowing one company
to own two television stationsin
markets with at least six
petitors and three stations in Ik
largest cities such as NewYort
and Los Angeles.
A further change would elim
inate most restrictions on asm
gle company owning combins-
tions of newspapers and TVand
radio stations in the same city
which large newspaper comps
nies such as Tribune Co. and
Gannett Inc. favor.
“Newspaper-owed television
stations program more and bei
ter news and public affairs to
any other stations,” said Mil
Sturm, president of tk
Newspaper Association of
America.
News Corp. and Viacom Inc,
which owns CBS and DPR
stand to benefit from a higki
national TV ownership cap
because mergers have left them
above the current 35 percem
limit. Those companies, alonp
with NBC, persuaded an appeals
court last year to reject the cur
rent cap and send it back to Ik
FCC for revision.
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http://www.fcc.gov
FCC:
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia —
FBI Director Robert Mueller
on Sunday said the Riyadh sui
cide bombings bore “all the
hallmarks” of Osama bin
Laden’s al-Qaida terror group,
and he praised the U.S.-Saudi
cooperation into the attacks
investigation.
Mueller, who arrived in
Saudi Arabia earlier in the day
from Jordan, said he was in the
Gulf kingdom to praise Saudi
officials for their support in the
war on terror and the probe into
the fatal May 12 attacks.
The State Department
announced Sunday that a ninth
American had died from injuries
received in the late night bomb
ings at three Riyadh residential
compounds. No personal details
were released at the family’s
request.
Some 35 people are reported
to have been killed, including
nine bombers.
“I think we assume that,
yes, there are ties (in the
attacks) to al-Qaida,” Mueller
said during a press conferenct
in the Saudi capital late
Sunday. “I don’t want to gel
into the details because tlie
investigations are ongoing, bul
clearly this type of undertaking
has all the hallmarks of anal-
Qaida operation.”
A U.S. diplomat said Mueller
planned to stay in Saudi Arabia
through Monday. Moroccan
officials in Rabat said the FBI
chief is also expected to travel
to Morocco within days for talks
with King Mohammed VI.
Four days after the Riyal
attacks, the Moroccan city of
Casablanca was rocked by near
ly simultaneous bombings that
killed 43 people, including 12
bombers.
The Casablanca bombing
plotters are suspected of finan
cial ties to senior al-Qaida lead
ers outside of Morocco, US.
officials have said on condition
of anonymity.
When asked Sunday if a
link has been established
between the Saudi and
Moroccan attacks, Mueller told
reporters, “It’s too early tosaj
that right now.”
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Alfier, who finished sixth with a career best effort of 219-11.
“I was really happy with the way we competed in the javelin,
Nelson said. “I can’t say enough about Anthony Alfier. He’s a young
guy who really came through for us in a big meet. I’m very happy for
Chris Sitka. He’s a senior who’s worked hard and paid his dues and
he was rewarded with a trip to the national meet. Luke didn’t perform
the way he wanted to, but he’s also going to the national meet and that
was his goal coming into this meet.”
The final qualifier to the 800-meter final on Friday, Pantoja battled
to a fourth place finish on Saturday with a 2:08.19 clocking.
“She is a gamer,” said associate head coach Ed Marcinkiewicz.
“It’s not so much the time with Angeles, it’s about the place, She
knows exactly what it takes and she knows how to do it. She’s not
someone you want to bet against when the chips are down.”
Jimenez and Ralston punched their tickets to the national meet in
the men’s shot put and gave the Aggie men nine points in the team
race. Jimenez placed fourth with a throw of 59-9.5, while Ralston was
fifth with a career-best effort of 58-7.25.
“Josh Ralston did an outstanding job,” Nelson said. “He had his
career best by a foot in one of the biggest meets of the year. He just
keeps getting better. Ronny also did a great job. His final throw would
have put him into second but he barely fouled. But getting to the next
round (NCAA Outdoor meet) was their goal and they did that.”
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