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Date: 30 August 1989
LEAD: The Dallas Times Herald was granted a temporary restraining order on Monday that forbids its rival, The Dallas Morning News, from publishing syndicated cartoons and columns, including the Far Side and Dear Abby, that now appear in The Times Herald.
Date: 30 August 1989
By Alan Cowell, Special To the New York Times
Alan Cowell
LEAD: Egyptian rights campaigners accused the authorities today of beating and torturing a group of 52 journalists, lawyers, students and workers detained after a strike at the country's biggest steel plant.
Date: 29 August 1989
By Eric Pace
Eric Pace
LEAD: Joseph Alsop, the syndicated Washington columnist whose robust opinions appeared in newspapers around the country for five decades, died yesterday morning in his house in the Georgetown section of Washington. He was 78 years old.
Date: 29 August 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-8, A10-11 Baltic Communists straddled the line between the Kremlin's demand for restraint and local cries for more radical changes in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Page A1
Date: 30 August 1989
LEAD: International A3-13 Two Colombia drug kings would quit the drug business in exchange for amnesty and a cease-fire in the nation's war on drugs, they say. The appeals became public as bombs shook Colombia's two largest cities. Page A1 Drug traffickers have lived well in Columbia.
Date: 30 August 1989
By William E. Schmidt
William Schmidt
LEAD: IT began, simply enough, at a television studio here, when a 92-year-old man showed up one day to tell Don Shelby, the 42-year-old anchor of WCCO-TV, that Mr. Shelby did not know how to tie his necktie straight.
Date: 30 August 1989
AP
LEAD: The General Motors Corporation said it plans to lay off 600 assembly line workers in November at its Arlington plant, a union official said. The G.M. plant builds the Chevrolet Caprice, the Cadillac Brougham and Chevrolet, Buick and Oldsmobile station wagons.
Date: 30 August 1989
Reuters
LEAD: The Norwegian computer concern Norsk Data A.S., which had reported a loss in the first half of the year, said it would cut another 600 jobs by the end of the year as part of its plan to shrink the company. Norsk cut 800 jobs earlier this year.
Date: 29 August 1989
Reuters
LEAD: Ecolab Inc.'s stock today rose to a new high for the year on renewed rumors that the company was a takeover target, analysts said. Stock in the St. Paul-based cleaning and maintenance company rose $2 a share, to $32.50, eclipsing its previous high of $30.50. More than 193,000 shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
Date: 30 August 1989
Reuters
LEAD: Schlumberger Ltd., a large industrial concern, and the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation of Japan announced they were forming a company to develop advanced testing for integrated circuits. Schlumberger said that under the terms of the agreement, the concern, called Verisys, would develop, manufacture and market the testing systems worldwide.