Anniversaire, Date de Naissance

NEWS MEDIA SWARM TO SITE FOR THE SHUTTLE'S LAUNCHING

Date: 09 April 1981

By Malcolm W. Browne, Special To the New York Times

Malcolm Browne

The launching of the space shuttle is a full-scale event for the news media, and as bleachers, trailers and tents here fill with news people, there is a hint of carnival in the air. Public affairs officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have bent every effort to inform, entertain and comfort the army of news representatives that has gathered at the Kennedy Space Center here. Some 3,500 reporters, photographers, technicians, news directors and editors, many accompanied by their spouses and children, have arrived for the launching, which is scheduled for Friday morning. Among them are 462 representatives of foreign news organizations.

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NEWS GROUPS AGREE NOT TO PUBLISH BUSH SCHEDULE

Date: 09 April 1981

By Jonathan Friendly

Jonathan Friendly

In response to a White House request designed to improve security for Vice President Bush, the two major national news services and Washington's two major newspapers have said they will stop publishing Mr. Bush's full schedule of daily activities, at least temporarily. The White House press office said that it had not yet been decided whether to ask for a similar halt to publication of President Reagan's schedule after he leaves George Washington University Hospital, where he is recovering from a bullet wound. Larry Speakes, the deputy White House press secretary, said Tuesday that he would seek such a ban, but later he said that, for now, it would apply only to the Vice President's schedule.

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Company News

Date: 09 April 1981

Dixon Accepts Bid, By Wolsey Unit

Dixon Bid

The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company said its directors had agreed in principle to be acquired by a newly formed corporation to be owned by Wolsey & Company, a New York investment banking firm, and other investors. One of Wolsey's general partners is Maurice Valente, the 52-year-old executive who was dismissed by the RCA Corporation as president and chief operating officer last June.

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Invesco Settlement

Date: 08 April 1981

AP

The Invesco International Corporation said that a Federal judge had approved a $1.1 million judgment as settlement of a suit contending that the company had mined Government-owned coal.

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News Analysis

Date: 09 April 1981

By R.w. Apple Jr., Special To the New York Times

The war of nerves over Poland is entering a new stage, Western analysts here believe, and Stanislaw Kania, the leader of the Polish Communist Party, may not survive. Already, according to Soviet and Eastern European informants, the Kremlin has decided to bypass him in attempting to curb the influence of Solidarity, the independent trade union, and its more vocal political allies. At recent closed briefings for senior members of the party bureaucracy here, the word was passed that Mr. Kania, who has been in office for only seven months, had failed to take stern enough action. He has been described as a man who tells visitors what they want to hear and then acts in whatever way will cause him the least difficulty.

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United Brands Loan

Date: 08 April 1981

The United Brands Company said it had arranged a $250 million, 27-month revolving credit and term loan plan with a group of 11 banks led by the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company.

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BALTIMORE'S JUNE FESTIVAL

Date: 08 April 1981

By Carol Lawson

Carol Lawson

BRITAIN has the Edinburgh Festival, Italy has Spoleto and the United States has Baltimore. Baltimore? That city plans to put itself on the global theater map in June with the ambitious Baltimore International Theater Festival. At least 12 major companies from around the world are expected to participate in the three-week event, from June 6 to 27. A highlight will be the National Theater of Britain's productions of Terence Rattigan's ''The Browning Version'' and ''Harlequinade.'' Alec McCowen and Geraldine McEwan, starring in the one-act plays in London, will repeat their roles.

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Company News; CELANESE NET UNCHANGED

Date: 09 April 1981

The Celanese Corporation, one of the world's largest producers of man-made fibers, announced yesterday that net income in the first quarter of 1981 remained at the level of the corresponding quarter a year earlier while sales increased 30.2 percent. Celanese said that earnings in the latest three months reached $36 million, or $2.25 a share, compared with $36 million, or $2.39 a share, in the three months a year ago.

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PARTS MAKERS RESIST U.A.W.

Date: 08 April 1981

Special to the New York Times

The United Automobile Workers union, which has recently won key organizing showdowns with General Motors in the South, has had considerably less success in unionizing the companies that make auto parts, which now account for most of the auto jobs in the region. ''The part suppliers are where we have the most organizing to do,'' James M. Turner, the union's top organizing official for eight Southern states, said. The parts suppliers, he said, ''know where to relocate'' to avoid unions. So it is not surprising that the parts producers have begun to pour into such traditional nonunion strongholds as North Carolina, the nation's least unionized state, and Tennessee, as well as into other states in the South, which is the least unionized region in the country. And in the last five years, these suppliers have arrived faster than the union can organize them.

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Company News; A.& P. Discussing Niagara Takeover

Date: 09 April 1981

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, which has been operating at a loss, and Niagara Frontier Services, a Buffalo food retailer and franchiser, jointly announced that they were negotiating for A.& P. to acquire Niagara but said that no agreement had yet been reached. They also refused to disclose terms.

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