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Date: 15 April 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Carolco Pictures Inc. and the Vista Organization Ltd. reached a definitive merger agreement. Each Vista stockholder will receive 8 cents for each common share and either a 9.5 percent convertible bond or an additional 12 cents to 81 cents a share. Shareholders will vote later this spring. The merger of Vista, a film and television production operation, and Carolco is to be completed this summer.
Date: 16 April 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Martin Marietta Corporation, the nations's third-largest producer of crushed stone for the construction industry, said it had bought two stone quarries in Virginia. No price was disclosed, but one analyst estimated it at about $25 million.
Date: 15 April 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Procter & Gamble Company declared a 2-for-1 stock split and increased its quarterly dividend to 55 cents a share from 50 cents. The dividend is payable May 15 to shareholders of record on April 24, and the stock split is payable June 12 to holders of record on May 15. P.& G. shares closed at $104.50 each today, up $4.50 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Date: 15 April 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cannon Pictures Inc. said it was restructuring its long-term debt and might reorganize its business operations. The Beverly Hills, Calif., film producer said in its Form 8k filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it was negotiating with its primary lender, another financial institution, and other parties concerning the company's financial condition and business relationships.
Date: 15 April 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company, the New York investment concern that helped the Fleet/Norstar Financial Group finance its purchase of the failed Bank of New England last year, may engage in similar transactions with the First Interstate Bancorp. First Interstate, the Los Angeles bank company, said it had discussions with Kohlberg, Kravis about the two companies joining to acquire savings institutions and banks.
Date: 15 April 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hanson P.L.C., the British conglomerate, said it had sold the Australian construction and property interests of its Beazer P.L.C. subsidiary for $24.8 million to B. & B. Asia Ltd., a Hong Kong company controlled by Bilfinger & Berger A.G., a German building company.
Date: 16 April 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Transportation Department gave final approval to Delta Air Lines' proposed purchase of a Detroit-to-London route from the Pan Am Corporation, the defunct carrier, subject to possible court action. Northwest Airlines has opposed the route transfer, and last week Pan Am filed a notice that it would terminate its contract to give Delta the route. If the courts rule against the transfer, by saying Pan Am's contract to give Delta the route is no longer enforceable because Pan Am ended operations on Dec. 4, the department's approval of the transfer will be terminated. The Transportation Department said the courts should have the final word on whether the routes would go to Delta.
Date: 16 April 1992
International A3-10 THE $44 BILLION ANSWER The International Monetary Fund said the former Soviet Union would need $44 billion in foreign aid this year to insure a transition to a market economy. The fund's managing director confirmed that Russia would need $24 billion. A1 The Russian Government and Parliament muted their conflict. A9 CRACKING DOWN ON LIBYA Air traffic between Libya and the rest of the world appeared to be at a standstill as both Arab and non-Arab nations began enforcing the Security Council embargo. Countries also began to expel dozens of Libyan diplomats as part of the effort to force Colonel Qaddafi to hand over two suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. A1 THE MAN BEIJING FEARS The horrors Han Dongfang experienced in prison are not remarkable. What is remarkable is that the democracy campaigner talks about his experience and risks it again. He is the Chinese Government's worst nightmare: a man who is less afraid of it than it is of him. A1 VANCE TRIES FOR PEACE, AGAIN The United Nations special envoy urged Serbian leaders to suspend their military actions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As he spoke, units of the Serb-led Yugoslav Army continued their assaults on Muslim Slav and Croatian areas. A1 The United States warned Belgrade to stop its attacks. A8 WINNIE MANDELA STEPS DOWN The embattled official of the African National Congress resigned under pressure from her influential post as head of social welfare in the congress. The move came two days after the announcement of her formal separation from her husband, the congress president. A6 NEW CONCERN OVER IRAN Teheran has stirred concern among its Persian Gulf neighbors by expelling Arab inhabitants of an island in the gulf that it jointly administers with the United Arab Emirates, officials in gulf nations said. A7 CLOSING IN ON KABUL Two rebel groups said they had captured a major Government air base north of the capital of Afghanistan. A provincial capital fell Tuesday, and reports said President Najibullah might have gone into hiding. A5 Peru's President Fujimori lives up to his nickname, the Emperor. A3 North Korea partly lifts the secrecy from its nuclear projects. A3 National A12-21, B6-7 A STRIKE ENDED, A UNION HUMBLED News analysis: The abrupt end of the strike against Caterpillar showed that management could bring even so powerful a union as the United Automobile Workers to its knees by threatening to hire permanent replacement workers. A1 Even with the strike over, many are not assured a job. B6 NEW LOS ANGELES POLICE CHIEF A year after officers' widely publicized beating of a black motorist had intensified racial discord in Los Angeles, the city chose the Police Commissioner of Philadelphia to replace Chief Daryl F. Gates. The appointee, Willie L. Williams, will be Los Angeles's first black Police Chief, although exactly when he will take office is unclear. A1 Man in the News: Willie Lawrence Williams. B7 CHICAGO FLOODING CONTINUES Heavy rain frustrated Chicago's efforts to stem the flooding of many downtown buildings, although the Mercantile Exchange held regular trading for the first time this week and the Chicago Board of Trade reopened for a short session. A12 ANOTHER BREATH OF SCANDAL A Senate postal employee sold crack on Capitol Hill to an undercover narcotics officer last year. In the annals of Washington's booming cocaine trade, that case might scarcely rate a footnote. But it illustrates for the first time that the Senate, until now untouched by the recent wave of scandal that has damaged the House, is not immune from similar problems. A18 More Republicans are bruised by the House bank affair. A17 CLINTON GOES BACK ON THE ROAD After remaining in Little Rock for a week to nurse strained vocal cords, Governor Clinton campaigned in California, where he all but ignored former Governor Brown and turned his fire on President Bush. A16 So, is Pat Caddell backing Brown, or maybe Perot? A16 Quayle's press secretary called a radio talk show, incognito. A16 In the Bush household, Millie is the big wage earner. A17 FALLOUT FROM REAGAN PROTEST The protester who rushed the stage where Ronald Reagan was speaking on Monday had press credentials, a circumstance now leading the Secret Service to consider tightening its restrictions on reporters who cover Presidents, Vice Presidents and Presidential candidates. A20 CHILD AGENCY UNDER ATTACK A Florida organization has stirred up a storm with a publicity campaign accusing the state's main children's welfare agency of "kidnapping" children in a plot to "undermine parental authority." A14 Columbia Journal: For Doolittle's Raiders, a big anniversary. A12 Experts recommended a delay in cloning Lincoln's genes. B6 New evidence was found linking halogen lights to skin cancer. B6 Metropolitan Digest, B1 POWERFUL UNION HEAD RESIGNS The head of the most powerful union in the New York region's construction industry resigned before he was to face charges that he had been a pawn of the Gambino crime family and had helped John Gotti extract payoffs from contractors. A1 L.I. CAR DEALER HELD IN FRAUD A Long Island car dealer borrowed $1.75 billion from General Motors last year to finance thousands of cars that did not exist, Federal prosecutors said, and they charged him with fraud. A1 Business Digest, D1 The Home Section C1-9 Italian furniture goes all cuddly. C1 Studio! Life style! Empire? C1 At home with John Epperson. C1 Growing C2 Parent & Child C9 Arts/Entertainment C11-20 Whose money is being used to fuel Broadway? C11 In line for "Guys and Dolls." C11 Music: Rattle and the Birmingham. C11 Dance: Mark Morris troupe. C11 Obituaries B8 Vakhtang Mikhailovich Chabukiani, a Soviet ballet master. Sammy Price, a jazz pianist. Sports B9-16 Baseball: Mets beat the Phillies. B9 Yankees fall to the Blue Jays. B9 Basketball: Atlanta hands Knicks a loss. B9 Editorials/Op-Ed A22-23 Editorials A22 Overdrafts and overkill. Iran's vote: little change. Tiny babies, many risks. Mary Cantwell: Bad foods. Letters A22 William Safire: The rising gorge. A23 Anthony Lewis: Straight and narrow. A23 Camille Paglia: Endangered rock. A23
Date: 16 April 1992
Reuters
The Dutch sugar, foods and biochemicals group CSM N.V. said it expected to reach an agreement to take over the Dutch vegetable bottler Hak B.V. Hak has sales offices in Germany and Belgium and employs about 355. CSM in February completed the purchase of Eryza B.V., a rice processor, and said the deal was part of a strategy of acquisitions of high-profile brand names.
Date: 15 April 1992
International A3-12 SANCTIONS AGAINST LIBYA As Libya persisted in refusing to hand over airline bombing suspects for trial in the West, as ordered by the United Nations Security Council, international sanctions were implemented, including the severing of all air links. A1 Malta expects a windfall from travel diverted from Libya. A6 PERU'S SILENT POOR The poor who populate a coastal shantytown south of Lima are unwilling to risk enthusiasm. In the struggle between President Fujimori's army and those seeking to overthrow the state, these people are passive observers. A1 RUSSIA'S BYZANTINE POLITICS The confrontation between President Yeltsin and his opponents in the Russian Congress of People's Deputies was tentatively defused when the legislators adopted in principle a compromise declaration of support for economic reform. A1 The Speaker of Nagorno-Karabakh's legislature was shot to death. A9 U.N. HALTS FOOD AID TO SUDAN The United Nations suspended efforts to feed a million and a half starving people in the southern Sudan because of a new military offensive by the Khartoum Government against rebels in the region. A3 ZAIRIANS TRY AGAIN New talks on Zaire's political future opened in Kinshasa, the capital, with the focus on the creation of a transitional administration until elections could be held. Government and opposition leaders made progress on important procedural disputes. A3 NO PEACE FOR BOSNIA Serbian and Yugoslav Army troops shattered a European Community-brokered truce in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The attack was the latest in a campaign to cut away swaths of the republic's territory and create an ethnic Serbian state. A6 VERDICT OUTRAGES MANY IN FRANCE French politicians, newspapers and human rights advocates expressed outrage over a Paris court's decision to drop charges against a Frenchman accused of killing Jews in Nazi-occupied France. A5 Yeroham Journal: Sephardic antagonism toward Israeli elite. A4 The British Labor Party will wait until July to pick a new leader. A7 National A16-25, D27-28 DNA ACCOUNT CONTRADICTED The chairman of a National Academy of Sciences panel on DNA fingerprinting said laboratories analyzing DNA should be held to higher standards. But, contradicting an interpretation that had appeared in The New York Times, he said the committee's report was not calling for a moratorium on the technique while those standards were being put in place. A1 STRIKE AT CATERPILLAR ENDS The United Automobile Workers agreed to end the five-month-old strike against the nation's largest manufacturer of construction equipment. In return, Caterpillar will end efforts to hire permanent replacements. The two sides will continue to negotiate. A1 A CHOCOLATE LOVER'S DREAM A newsletter contending that chocolate might help prevent cavities was circulated to dentists by the Princeton Dental Resource Center, which urged the dentists to pass the publication on to patients. But medical researchers doubt the claim, and many dentists are not aware that the Princeton organization is financed by a leading candy company, M&M/ Mars. A1 STORMY AFTERMATH IN CHICAGO Mayor Daley, finding that the flood besieging basements throughout the Loop could have been avoided, dismissed his transportation commissioner, who was in charge of public works. City officials said some buildings could be without electricity for a week. D27 A 60-mile web of tunnels got little notice -- until Monday. D27 A FAMILIAR-SOUNDING BUSH As it casts about for ways to show that the President is coming to grips with domestic issues, the Bush re-election team has come up with a new wrinkle on an old political practice. Mr. Bush has been offering not only the same speech but also the same policy announcements, over and over again. A25 Perot sent aides to check an "October surprise" report. A25 A Clinton aide keeps track of reporters visiting Little Rock. A24 In the final round of Virginia caucuses, Clinton won again. A24 His week of recuperation clearly did Clinton no harm. A24 CLEAN-AIR BREAKTHROUGH California smog officials and the Ford Motor Company introduced Ford Escort and Mercury Tracer versions that are being acclaimed as the cleanest-running cars ever approved for mass production. A16 A CITY'S RESPONSE TO BLOODSHED Increasingly deadly violence that threatens to engulf some neighborhoods and stifle renewal has forced Oakland, Calif., to search its soul for solutions. A16 SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT INQUIRY In a rare public hearing at the University of Pittsburgh, witnesses defended a scientist whose research concluded that even low doses of lead in children could reduce intelligence scores. D28 A new report on the stark plight of American children. D27 Education Page B11 Charlotte, N.C., pioneer of school integration, will end busing. Metropolitan Digest, B1 CUSHIONING A TUITION INCREASE The City University plans its largest tuition increase in 15 years for incoming freshmen, but it also promises the students that if they make it to their senior year they can attend their last semester before graduation free of charge. A1 Business Digest, D1 The Living Section C1-12 A vessel where the fuel is food. C1 Topless bars for a crowd in pin stripes. C1 At Dinner With Jane Pratt. C1 Health Page C14 Arts/Entertainment C15-24 Theater: "Guys and Dolls." C15 Sports B12-17 Baseball: Yanks routed by Blue Jays. B13 Obituaries D26 Editorials/Op-Ed A26-27 Editorials A26 Stop the Balkan butcher. Tax crime, prison time. Bush pays campaign dues. Topics: New York dog days. Letters A26 Anna Quindlen: Rabbit punch. A27 Jesse Lemisch: Do they want my wife to die? A27 R. Dan Brumbaugh Jr.: Banks? What banks? A27