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Date: 08 December 1992
Two television networks, CBS and NBC, have sent anchormen to Somalia; a third, ABC, has sent the host of its late-night news program. It is the first time the three have sent so many star newscasters to a foreign country since January 1991, when they sent their anchormen to cover the Persian Gulf war.
Date: 08 December 1992
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
The root of Mortimer B. Zuckerman's current problems in trying to take over The Daily News go back to a 114-day newspaper strike that began 30 years ago this morning. Then, at the zenith of the power of unions nationally, it was the Big Six -- Local 6 of the International Typographical Union -- that in effect shut down the industry.
Date: 08 December 1992
Court Declines to Take Case on Abortion Wait The Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to a Mississippi law that requires women to wait 24 hours for abortions after receiving counseling. The Court also let stand a lower court decision that threw out the criminal conviction of John Poindexter in the Iran-contra affair. Page A22. 3 Israeli Soldiers Slain> Three Israeli soldiers were killed in the occupied Gaza Strip, apparently by Islamic militants who raked their jeep with automatic gunfire. Page A3. More Changes in Taxes The tax-code tinkering that took place over 12 years of Republican administration is expected to continue under the Democrats. Page D1. Baseball Talks to Reopen Owners voted to reopen negotiations with the players' union, a move that could ultimately jeopardize the start of the 1993 season. Page B17.
Date: 07 December 1992
The pressmen's union approved a new contract with The New York Times yesterday, which the paper called an important step toward full operation of its $450 million printing plant in Edison, N.J. The contract was approved by a vote of rank-and-file members of the union, formally called the New York Newspaper Printing Pressmen's Union No. 2.
Date: 07 December 1992
By Edward A. Gargan
Edward Gargan
This morning's sun, a dollop of deep orange, rose over processions of young men, their heads swathed in saffron headbands, their necks wrapped in saffron scarves, marching, some in lockstep, toward this sacred city. Dawn brought with it, as well, the ceaseless call and response: "Jai Sri Ram, Jai Sri Ram!" -- "Hail Lord Ram, Hail Lord Ram!" This was the day decreed by India's Hindu fundamentalist leaders -- men who want to create a Hindu state -- when the faithful from around the country should assemble here to begin work on a massive temple to the god Ram.
Date: 08 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Volkswagen A.G. said yesterday that it had awarded a $60.6 million contract to Umformtechnik Erfurt G.m.b.H. for the delivery and installation of presses at a joint venture auto plant in Changchun, China. It is the largest contract the German auto maker has given to an industrial company in eastern Germany. Umformtechnik will be responsible for carrying out the whole contract at FAW-Volkswagen in Changchun. The presses are expected to be operational in the second half of 1994.
Date: 08 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
A newly revised rehabilitation plan for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company drew fire from a group of more than 500,000 people who have retirement savings invested with the seized Newark-based insurer. The Association of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Contract Holders, said yesterday that the plan worked out by New Jersey and New York regulators favored contracts backed by state guarantee funds.
Date: 07 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Economic growth in the world's seven leading industrial economies will accelerate to 2.8 percent in 1994, from 2.2 percent next year and 1.3 percent in 1992, the London Business School said in its latest International Economic Outlook. Growth last year was five-tenths of a percent. The school's Center for Economic Forecasting said the recovery in the Group of Seven nations is "slow by comparison with previous recoveries from recession." The forecasters see growth of 2.7 percent in the United States next year.
Date: 07 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Dow Chemical Company has announced the early stages of a revamping that will divide the company's management into three businesses. Dow Chemical's chairman and chief executive, Frank P. Popoff, who succeeded Paul F. Oreffice last week, on Friday named William S. Stavropoulos president and chief operating officer, effective April 1. Dow Chemical has been without a chief operating officer since the late 1980's, a company spokesman, Matt Davis, said.
Date: 07 December 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Florida has ordered the Foremost Insurance Group, a unit of the Foremost Corporation of America, to resume selling new policies in 40 of the state's 62 counties. Foremost, which had $10 million in losses from Hurricane Andrew in Florida and Louisiana, outlined its intent to limit new business starting Dec. 1 in a Nov. 18 letter to its Florida agents.