WHY LOTT'S NOSTALGIC LAPSE COST HIM HIS JOB.(MAIN)

Byline: WILLIAM RASPBERRY

Trent Lott, of course, had to go. I thought he'd hang around until Jan. 6, the date the Republican Party leadership had pledged to handle the situation brought on when the Senate majority leader expressed his nostalgia for Jim Crow.

But he had to go. That is fairly clear.

This isn't: Precisely what are the transgressions for which Lott was cast into the outer darkness?

The proximate sin, of course, was his statement made at his colleague Strom Thurmond's birthday bash that America would have been better off if that centenarian had been elected president when he ran on a segregationist platform in 1948.

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DEPARTURE OF REPORTERS POINTS TO PAINFUL PERIOD AT WTEN.(Living Today)

Byline: Will Hughes Staff writer

"We're in a turnaround situation," said WTEN-TV (Channel 10) news director Jim Holland. "You go through a painful period when you go through change."

At WTEN that painful period has been characterized by highly visible departures of on-air personalities - most recently reporter Kathy Gazda - sliding ratings and published reports of the station's low morale.

"Morale is the lowest and attitudes the worse in six years. People are frustrated. The spirit is broken," said Gazda, who will join WTIC-TV in Hartford, Conn., on April 3 as a general assignment reporter.

Gazda joins a list of on-air personalities, including Greg Floyd, Pauline Liu, Kim Adams, Beth Nichols, and Arnie …

Israel scrambles warplanes over nuclear facility

Israel's air force scrambled fighter jets Tuesday after a small civilian aircraft flew into restricted airspace near the country's heavily guarded and secretive Dimona nuclear reactor, military officials said Tuesday.

The officials said two fighter planes that were already airborne responded and directed the pilot to a nearby airport. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the …

Venta de viviendas usadas en Estados Unidos en segundo nivel más alto

WASHINGTON - Contrario a las expectativas pesimistas, la venta de viviendas usadas en Estados Unidos subi� en agosto para alcanzar su segundo nivel m�s alto del que se tengan registro, mientras los precios sub�an a su ritmo m�s r�pido en 26 a�os.

La Asociaci�n Nacional de Bienes Ra�ces inform� que la venta de viviendas usadas subi� 2% en agosto a una tasa anual, …

It's time to come together.(Brief Article)

The large impact of small business mergers

Mergers, partnerships, acquisitions, yeah, yeah, yeah, you've heard it all before and more than likely you're bound to hear it again. This rime, the talk around town is the merger between Film Fabricators Inc., (FFI) of Atlanta and the Johnson Bryce Corp. (JBC) of Memphis, two African American packaging companies, coming together to form the Hall-Bryce Alliance (HBA), the largest minority-owned flexible packaging company in the country with over $60 million in combined annual sales projected for 2001.

The partnership was suggested and orchestrated by the Procter & Gamble company, which promises a contract worth $100 …

AngioDynamics executive to join startup company.(Business)

QUEENSBURY - Robert D. Mitchell will leave AngioDynamics Inc., the Queensbury-based medical instruments maker, where he was chief operating officer, at the end of the month. He will become chief executive officer of Nellis Endovascular, a startup …

NIXON TAPES PORTRAY TUMULT OVER WAR PROTESTERS IN CAPITAL.(MAIN)

Byline: Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- War protesters had just swarmed through Washington and a new bunch -- "tough, hard-core radicals'' in the eyes of President Nixon -- was heading for the capital. He gathered his inner circle to ponder how to react, and a newly released tape captures their anxiety.

For an hour and a half on April 27, 1971, Nixon, his Cabinet and his closest advisers pondered whether to ignore the demonstrators or arrest them.

On the one hand, said Nixon, he didn't want to convey a soft message of `Come on, you kiddies, you know, don't tear up the joint and so forth.''

``If on the other hand, they come in and start …