Den 12 oktober 1993 var en tisdag under stjärntecknet ♎. Det var 284 e dagen i året. Förenta staternas president var William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Om du föddes den här dagen är du 31 år gammal. Din sista födelsedag var den lördag 12 oktober 2024, 360 dagar sedan. Din nästa födelsedag är den söndag 12 oktober 2025, om 4 dagar. Du har bott i 11 683 dagar, eller cirka 280 405 timmar, eller cirka 16 824 342 minuter, eller cirka 1 009 460 520 sekunder.
12th of October 1993 News
Nyheter som framträdde på New York Times framsida den 12 oktober 1993
Clinton Pledges Open Fund-Raisers
Date: 13 October 1993
The White House announced today that major Democratic Party fund-raising events attended by President Clinton would from now on be open to the press. The move came after reporters were barred from a fund-raising dinner held last week by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and attended by Mr. Clinton. A flurry of press criticism ensued, suggesting that the White House was trying to avoid public images of Mr. Clinton mingling with major financial contributors, given his populist and reformist appeals in the 1992 campaign.
Full Article
Books of The Times;
The Road to Saigon and On: A Reporter's Story
Date: 13 October 1993
By Larry Heinemann
Larry Heinemann
Muddy Boots and Red Socks
A Reporter's Life
By Malcolm W. Browne
Illustrated. 366 pages. Times Books/ Random House. $23.
Malcolm Browne has been a reporter for almost 40 years, and he has certainly been around the ranch, as the saying goes. He has traveled from upstate New York to Havana, Saigon to Buenos Aires, Karachi to Belgrade, and back to Saigon. Along the way he worked for The Associated Press, ABC News and The New York Times, where he is now a reporter in the science department. His Vietnam reporting won him the Pulitzer Prize during the early years of the war.
Full Article
Policing a Global Village
Date: 13 October 1993
By R. W. Apple Jr
R. Apple
A clearer demonstration of the global village that modern communications have created, and the land-mines that await American Presidents as a result, would be difficult to imagine. After more than a dozen American soldiers were killed in street-fighting in Somalia 10 days ago, President Clinton argued that it would be dangerous for the United States to pull out its troops at once, because doing so would only encourage "aggressors, thugs and terrorists" all over the world.
Full Article
SUN MICROSYSTEMS TO SELL MICROPROCESSORS DIRECTLY
Date: 12 October 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sun Microsystems Inc. said yesterday that it would directly sell the microprocessors that power its work stations. In the last 11 years, Sun, the biggest work station company, has developed a series of microprocessors that run in the advanced Unix computer environment using RISC, or reduced instruction set computing, technology. Up to now, these chips have been sold through licensed semiconductor companies. Sun's plan to sell such microprocessors directly to other competing computer and electronics companies comes as leading chip makers introduce more RISC products.
Full Article
MILWAUKEE MANUFACTURER TO BUY KOLLER INDUSTRIES
Date: 12 October 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Jason Inc. of Milwaukee, a manufacturer of automotive trim, finishing and power-generation products, agreed yesterday to acquire Koller Industries for $55 million in cash. It would be the 11th acquisition by Jason in the last seven years. Koller Industries, which consists of the Koller Manufacturing Company in Milwaukee, Metalex in Libertyville, Ill., and Advanced Wire Products in Addison, Ill., makes precision stamped metal products.
Full Article
FOURTH FINANCIAL ACQUIRING GREAT SOUTHERN BANCORP
Date: 13 October 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Fourth Financial Corporation will acquire the Great Southern Bancorp for about $84.1 million in stock under a definitive merger agreement reached yesterday. Fourth Financial said in July that it would buy Great Southern, a savings and loan based in Springfield, Mo.
Full Article
CHEVRON PUTS SOME ASPHALT OPERATIONS UP FOR SALE
Date: 12 October 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Chevron Corporation said yesterday that it was seeking to sell its asphalt businesses in the Pacific Northwest, including two refineries, and six terminal sites nationwide. Chevron, the nation's largest petroleum refiner and gasoline maker, said it wanted to sell its plant in Portland, Ore., and its refinery near Seattle. It wants to get another party to operate its asphalt plant in Perth Amboy, N.J. About 210 people work for the asphalt unit. Chevron's asphalt business has annual sales of $250 million, but in 1992 it represented less than 1 percent of the company's $37 billion in revenue.
Full Article
A.T.& T. AWARDED SERVICE CONTRACTS BY UNITED AIRLINES
Date: 13 October 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
A.T.& T. has signed a series of multiyear agreements, worth a total of $152 million, to provide voice and data telecommunications services to United Airlines. The agreements call for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the No. 1 long-distance provider in the United States, to provide services through its virtual telecommunications network service, including "800" number, international and data communications. The agreements extend A.T.& T.'s existing contracts with United.
Full Article
CYPRUS AND LAC WIN BID TO BUY STAKE IN CHILEAN MINE
Date: 12 October 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Cyprus Minerals Company of Englewood, Colo., and LAC Minerals Ltd. of Toronto beat out eight competitors for the right to buy a 51 percent stake in El Abra copper mine in Chile, the largest foreign investment project in the country's history. Cyprus and LAC agreed to pay $404 million, plus $151 million in costs attributed to Codelco, Chile's state-owned copper company, which owns the mine.
Full Article
Few Bonds Were Traded On Holiday
Date: 12 October 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Treasury bond market was closed in the United States yesterday for the Columbus Day holiday, and overseas trading in Treasury securities was thin. The yield on the Treasury's 30-year bond closed at 5.92 percent on Friday.
Full Article
