THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, March 23, 1996 TAG: 9603230429
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: D1 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 56 lines
U.S. District Judge E. Thomas Boyle ruled that The Liggett Group Inc. cannot use attorney-client privilege to shield itself from turning over 123 documents it believes are secret. A former model, Janet Sackman, 64, filed a lawsuit in 1993, arguing that her work advertising Lucky Strikes in the 1940s and 1950s led to a tobacco addiction that resulted in lung and throat cancer in 1983. She since has had her larynx removed. Boyle said his review of the papers helped him conclude that Sackman has established probable cause that Liggett had a fraudulent purpose in supporting the work of the Council on Tobacco Research Special Projects in the 1960s. (AP)
Sky Trek International to begin charter flights
Richmond-based Sky Trek International Airlines plans to begin charter flights on one leased jet by June and expand to seven or eight planes within a year, said Robert W. Iverson, president and chief executive officer. Iverson said the charter airline initially will employ about 20 people. Iverson said costs are lower for charter carriers than for scheduled airlines, and they compete in a niche not challenged by the major airlines. He said tour operators and other brokers are clamoring for additional charter service. (AP) Jackson Hewitt reports loss on revenues
Jackson Hewitt Tax Service in Virginia Beach reported a net loss of $500,000 for the three months ended Jan. 31, but said the deficit had narrowed from a $700,000 loss in its year-earlier quarter. The tax-preparation service also said its revenues for the recent quarter rose 16 percent, to $5 million, from $4.3 million in the Jan. 31 quarter of 1995. For the nine months through Jan. 31, the company reported a net loss of $3.4 million, or 69 cents a share, on revenues of $6.9 million. That compared with a net loss of $3.3 million, or 85 cents a share, on revenues of $5.6 million in the comparable period last year. (Staff) A heated culture clash in the yogurt industry
Its critics say SnackWell's nonfat yogurt is an uncultured impostor. Nabisco Brands Inc., which makes SnackWell's, said that under Food and Drug Administration standards, the yogurt in question is, indeed, yogurt. It's the dead bacteria in SnackWell's that drove a group called the National Yogurt Association to ask the FDA to reconsider what it considers yogurt. Under current FDA standards, as long as manufacturers include strains of Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus, have certain levels of milk fat and acidity, and disclose other ingredients, then yogurt is yogurt. Nabisco kills the bacteria during heat treating. (The Washington Post) by CNB