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Date: 15 August 1990
Reuters
LEAD: The Navy said the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, a division of Tenneco Inc., had been awarded a contract worth $1.1 billion for work on overhauling the Navy aircraft carrier Enterprise. The work will be performed at Newport News, Va., and is expected to be completed in May 1994, the Navy said.
Date: 15 August 1990
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
LEAD: Ted Koppel, the anchor of the ABC News program ''Nightline,'' yesterday became the first American journalist allowed into Iraq since the invasion of Kuwait, but most other news organizations continued to be frustrated in their attempts to enter either Iraq or Saudi Arabia to report on the crisis in the Persian
Date: 14 August 1990
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A2-11 The embargo on Iraq tightened noticeably when an Iraqi tanker sailed away from a Red Sea port without taking on any crude oil, and two or three other ships failed to land Iraqi-bound cargoes in the Middle East, the White House said. Page A1
Date: 15 August 1990
LEAD: International A3-20 King Hussein will meet the President in an apparent attempt to mediate the worsening crisis in the Middle East. The Jordanian leader reportedly has a letter for the President from Saddam Hussein of Iraq, whom he met in Baghdad on Monday. Page A1
Date: 14 August 1990
Reuters
LEAD: The Ford Motor Company said it would idle its Ford Thunderbird and Mercury Cougar assembly system at its Lorain, Ohio, assembly plant for one week because of a shortage of interior trim materials. The shutdown is effective today. The Thunderbird-Cougar assembly system employs 2,700 hourly employees on two shifts and builds about 5,600 units weekly, Ford said.
Date: 15 August 1990
LEAD: Following are excerpts from President Bush's news conference at the White House yesterday, as recorded by The New York Times: OPENING STATEMENT
Date: 15 August 1990
By Michael Lev
Michael Lev
LEAD: The Ambase Corporation said yesterday that it had agreed to sell a subsidiary, the Home Insurance Company, to Vik Brothers International, a European-based investment group, in a deal valued at $905 million.
Date: 15 August 1990
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: The American public is ''riveted'' by news of the crisis in the Persian Gulf, according to a survey of public opinion by the Times Mirror Center for the Public and the Press.
Date: 14 August 1990
LEAD: Vornado Inc., the New Jersey real estate developer, said yesterday that it intends to acquire at least $15 million worth of the stock of Alexander's Inc. and perhaps as much as 25 percent of the company's common shares outstanding.
Date: 14 August 1990
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: Andre Danesh, the president of the Allied Financial Corporation, said today that he was in talks to raise funds to acquire control of the Southmark Corporation, the Dallas-based real estate and financial services concern that emerged on Friday from Chapter 11 of the Federal bankruptcy laws.