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AP (Associated Press) News provides the full text of its coverage of national, international, and business news, as well as sports and financial information. AP News is available 24 hours after the data are transmitted on its high-speed DataStream service. All words within the text are searchable, thus providing access to any subject that has been in the news. The Associated Press is the largest supplier of general-interest news to the media world-wide, serving more than 15,000 newspaper and broadcast outlets in 115 countries around the world.
AP News is compiled by more than 1,100 journalists in 141 United States news bureaus and 83 overseas news bureaus. In addition, as a U.S. news cooperative, the AP has access to the news compiled by approximately 1,500 newspaper members and 6,000 radio-television members in the United States.
AP News is contained in two databases: Files 258 and 858. File 258 contains current data beginning in January 2000. File 858 contains archive data spanning from July 1984 through December 1999. OneSearch/DIALINDEX category APNEWS may be used to begin both files simultaneously; i.e., BEGIN APNEWS.
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| ACRONYM | CATEGORY NAME |
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| APNEWS | AP NEWS Files |
| ASIANEWS | Asia/Pacific News |
| CANADANE | Canadian News |
| EURBUSNE | European Regional Business News |
| EUROPENE | European News Sources |
| GENERALN | General News Files |
| INTLNEWS | Global News English-Language Sources |
| JAPANNEW | Japanese Business News |
| LATINNEW | Latin American News |
| MIDEASTN | Middle Eastern/African News |
| NEWSDAIL | News, Current - Daily Updates |
| NEWSWIRE | Newswires |
| PUBAFF | Public Affairs |
| REGIONAL | United States Regional Business |
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| DIALOG(R)File 258:AP News | |
| (c) 2000 Associated Press. All rts. reserv. | |
| 00000932 (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT) | |
| /TI | Britain's Telewest, Flextech, nearing a dlrs 3.2 billion cable TV deal |
| JN= | Associated Press |
| DY=,MO=,PD=,PY= | Friday, December 17, 1999 13:05 EST |
| JC=,LA=,RT= | JOURNAL CODE: AP LANGUAGE: ENGLISH RECORD TYPE: FULLTEXT |
| DT= | DOCUMENT TYPE: NEWSWIRE |
| WORD COUNT: 350 | |
| TEXT: | |
| DL=,/LP,/TX | LONDON (AP) - British cable TV operator Telewest Communications |
| PLC is close to acquiring media company Flextech PLC in an | |
| all-share deal worth about 2.0 billion pounds (dlrs 3.2 billion). | |
| Flextech's directors said Friday that they expected to accept | |
| Telewest's offer of 3.78 of its own shares for every share in | |
| Flextech. | |
| /TX | The deal would combine Telewest's broadband cable TV service |
| with Flextech's interactive television channels to provide a | |
| ``turbocharged" data transmission service for homes and mobile | |
| phones, Telewest spokesman Stephen Powers said. | |
| The two companies announced on Dec. 6 that they were negotiating | |
| a merger, and they detailed the planned deal in a statement on | |
| Friday. They hope to complete the project by the end of next month. | |
| ``There are a lot of ends to be tied off, and unfortunately that | |
| can't happen overnight," Powers said. Legal technicalities | |
| pertaining to share ownership were among the details still to be | |
| resolved. | |
| Liberty Media International, owned by AT-and-T Corp., has a 36.6 | |
| percent stake in Flextech, and it has agreed in principle to accept | |
| Telewest's offer so long as Telewest makes it by Jan. 31. | |
| Under the deal, Telewest shareholders would own 80 percent of | |
| the combined company, with Flextech owning the remaining 20 | |
| percent. | |
| Telewest shareholders still must approve the offer. Microsoft | |
| Corp., MediaOne Group Inc. and Liberty Media, which together hold | |
| 51.3 percent of Telewest's shares, are backing the deal. | |
| The offer, which is based on Telewest's closing price on | |
| Thursday of 340 pence (dlrs 5.44) a share, values every Flextech | |
| share at 1,285.2 pence (dlrs 20.56). | |
| Telewest stock closed 1.6 percent lower in trading Friday, at | |
| 334.5 pence. Flextech shares dropped 1.6 percent to finish at dlrs | |
| 11.95 (dlrs 19.12) per share. | |
| British competitors in the field of interactive TV include a | |
| joint venture between British Telecommunications PLC and Rupert | |
| Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting Group. Internet service | |
| providers like America Online of the United States are also | |
| expected to enter the market. | |
| (. . .) | |
| Copyright (c) 2000 Associated Press. All rights reserved. | |
| /CO,CO= | COMPANY NAMES: AMERICA ONLINE INC; BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC; |
| MICROSOFT CORP; TELEWEST COMMUNICATIONS PLC; FLEXTECH PLC; UNITED ARTISTS | |
| EUROPEAN HOLDINGS LTD; AT AND T CORP; MEDIAONE INC; US WEST INC; LIBERTY | |
| MEDIA CORP; LIBERTY MEDIA GROUP; BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING GROUP PLC | |
| /GN,GN= | GEOGRAPHIC NAMES: UNITED KINGDOM; EUROPEAN UNION; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE |
| /PN,PN= | INDUSTRY NAMES: BROADCASTING; CABLE SERVICE PROVIDERS; CABLE TV; MERGERS |
| AND ACQUISITIONS; TV STATIONS; COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES; MEDIA | |
| INDUSTRIES; CORPORATE | |
| /DE,EN= | EVENT NAMES: MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; STOCKS AND SHARES |
| DIALOG(R)File 858:AP News Jul | |
| (c) 1999 Associated Press. All rts. reserv. | |
| 02015382 | |
| /TI | Bush Watches War Games, Says World Dangers Justify Military Plan |
| AU= | BY: TOM RAUM |
| DL=,PR= | DATELINE: FORT IRWIN, Calif. PRIORITY: URGENT WORD COUNT: 1007 |
| PD=,PY= | DATE: February 7, 1990 00:17EST |
| /LP,/TX | President Bush told U.S. troops taking part in war games Tuesday that |
| political proposals by Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev are | |
| encouraging but that America must not let changes in Eastern Europe ''lull | |
| us into a sense of complacency.' | |
| The president, getting a first-hand look at U.S. forces in action, | |
| declared: ''Military challenges to democracy persist in every hemisphere | |
| and America must always be prepared to fight for freedom and security.'' | |
| /TX | Critics, especially congressional Democrats, contend that Bush's military |
| budget ignores the dismantling of the Communist empire. | |
| The president defended his plan to make military cuts in select areas - | |
| such as bases - but to spend more on strategic weapons as he began a three- | |
| day trip combining visits to defense installations with Republican fund- | |
| raising. | |
| A continent away, the Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services | |
| Committee kept up the pressure for changes, saying the administration's | |
| $292.1 billion defense budget, with a continued emphasis on big strategic | |
| programs such as long-range missiles, fails ''to match the new political | |
| realities at home or abroad.'' | |
| ''This administration's approach reflects old thinking rather than these | |
| new realities,'' Rep. Les Aspin of Wisconsin said at a congressional | |
| hearing in Washington. | |
| (. . .) | |
| /SH,SH= | SECTION HEADING: Domestic News; |
| Copyright 1990 By The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. | |
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INDEXING |
SELECT EXAMPLES |
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| None | None | All Basic Index Fields | Word | S WAR(W)GAMES |
| /CO | CO | Company Name1,2,3 | Word | S AMERICA(W)ONLINE/CO |
| /DE | DE | Descriptor2,3 | Word & Phrase |
S GOVERNMENT/DE S "MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS"/DE |
| /GN | GN | Geographic Name1,2,3 | Word | S UNITED(W)KINGDOM/GN |
| /LP | LP | Lead Paragraph | Word | S TELEWEST(W)COMMUNICATION?/LP |
| /PN | PN | Industry Name1,2,3 | Word | S CABLE(W)SERVICE?/PN |
| /SH | SH | Section Heading1 | Word | S DOMESTIC/SH |
| /TI | TI | Title | Word | S CABLE(W)TV/TI |
| /TX | TX | Text | Word | S TELEWEST(W)SHAREHOLDER?/TX |
1 Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.
2 Contains INFOSORT terms (see HELP INFOSORT).
| SEARCH PREFIX |
DISPLAY CODE |
FIELD NAME |
INDEXING |
SELECT EXAMPLES |
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| AA= | AA | DIALOG Accession Number | Phrase | S AA=BADGUID108422456? |
| AU= | AU | Author4 | Word | S AU=(TOM(N)RAUM) |
| CO= | CO | Company Name1,2,3 | Phrase | S CO=AMERICA ONLINE INC |
| DL= | DL | Dateline | Word & Phrase |
S DL=(FORT(W)IRWIN?) S DL=FORT IRWIN? |
| DT= | DT | Document Type3 | Phrase | S DT=NEWSWIRE |
| DY= | DY | Publication Day3 | Phrase | S DY=FRIDAY |
| EN= | EN | Event Name2,3 | Phrase | S EN="MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS" |
| GN= | GN | Geographic Name1,2,3 | Phrase | S GN=UNITED KINGDOM |
| JC= | JC | Journal Code3 | Phrase | S JC=AP |
| JN= | JN | Journal Name | Phrase | S JN=ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| LA= | LA | Language3 | Phrase | S LA=ENGLISH |
| MO= | MO | Publication Month3 | Phrase | S MO=DECEMBER |
| PD= | PD | Publication Date | Phrase | S PD=199900206 |
| PN= | PN | Industry Name1,2,3 | Phrase | S PN=CABLE SERVICE PROVIDERS |
| PR= | PR | Priority4 | Phrase | S PR=URGENT |
| PY= | PY | Publication Year | Phrase | S PY=2000 |
| RT= | RT | Record Type3 | Phrase | S RT=FULLTEXT |
| SH= | SH | Section Heading1,4 | Phrase | S SH=DOMESTIC NEWS |
| None | TM | Time | ||
| UD= | None | Update | Phrase | S UD=9999 |
| None | WD | Word Count |
| Sets and terms may be restricted by Basic Index suffixes, i.e., /LP, /SH, /TI, /TX (e.g., S S5/TI), as well as by publication year, e.g., S S3/1990. | ||
| SUFFIX | FIELD NAME | EXAMPLES |
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| /LONG | Word Count of 1,000 words or more | S S1/LONG |
| /SHORT | Word Count of less than 1,000 words | S S1/SHORT |
| /YYYY | Publication Year | S S1/1999 |
| SORTABLE FIELDS | EXAMPLES |
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| AA, AU, JN, PD, PY, TI | SORT S13/ALL/PD PRINT S5/5/1-24/TI |
| RANK FIELDS | EXAMPLES |
|---|---|
| All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. | RANK DE S3 |
| User-defined formats may be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables. | TYPE S3/TI,PD/1-5 |
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| 1 | -- | DIALOG Accession Number |
| 2 | -- | Full Record except Text |
| 3 | Medium | Bibliographic Citation and Word Count |
| 4 | -- | Bibliographic Citation, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count |
| 5 | -- | Bibliographic Citation, Indexing, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count |
| 6 | Free | Title, Publication Date, and Word Count |
| 7 | Long | Full Record except Indexing |
| 8 | Short | Title, Publication Date, Word Count, and Indexing |
| 9 | Full | Full Record |
| K | -- | KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats |
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| DIALOG Accession Number | TYPE 00001346/5 DISPLAY 00009109/TI,LP PRINT 00007803/5 |
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