On June 6th, amid the exodus of Iraqis from the public-affairs section, an Embassy official sent a six-page cable to Washington whose subject line read "Public Affairs Staff Show Strains of Social Discord".
Senior officials at F.B.I. headquarters rejected requests from agents in Minneapolis for a wider investigation on two occasions, even after a French intelligence agency warned the bureau in a classified two-page cable on Aug. 27 that Mr. Moussaoui had "Islamic extremist beliefs".
The two-page cable — which was sent to the Élysée Palace and the French Foreign Ministry on Sept. 2, and was leaked to the investigative and satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné, which printed excerpts in its Wednesday issue — said that the NATO-led military presence was making it harder to stabilize the country.
It also owns varied stakes in over 50 different telephone, paging, cable and radio businesses in Eastern Europe, Russia and China.
If elected, the Lens candidates promise to force a sale of Metromedia's ailing Snapper lawn mower unit, buy back stock and separate the company's telecom business from its paging, cable TV and radio and internet operations.
Peter Kornbluh, director of the Brazil Documentation Project at George Washington University's National Security Archive, which has been helping Brazil obtain US documents about state-sanctioned torture, singled out the seven-page cable and called it "one of the most detailed reports on torture techniques ever declassified by the US government".
Some prominent pro-war voices a decade ago still occupy high-profile perches on op-ed pages, cable news or Sunday show round-tables.
PAGE C1 CABLE MAKES GAINS In the traditional September-to-May broadcast season that ended last week, audiences increasingly chose ad-supported cable channels rather than the major networks.
Page B1 CABLE HOLDS LEAD OVER WEB Even as Internet video viewing increases, the vast majority of American households are still paying for television subscriptions and watching most video that way, according to the latest crop of earnings reports.
Hosts interrupt the people they're supposed to be interviewing with regularity, borrowing a page from cable news shows.
