Murdoch to Merge Papers
Date: 04 October 1990
AP
LEAD: Rupert Murdoch, the global media owner, said today that he would merge four of his Australian newspapers into two round-the-clock papers.
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Date: 04 October 1990
AP
LEAD: Rupert Murdoch, the global media owner, said today that he would merge four of his Australian newspapers into two round-the-clock papers.
Date: 04 October 1990
LEAD: Nobody wants to be in the locker room - it stinks - but being there is part of your function as a reporter. Nowhere else are you going to catch the mood of the team better, the sense of personal drama. There's plenty of time for anyone who chooses not to be naked to put something on. A towel. Shorts.
Date: 05 October 1990
AP
LEAD: A youth publication with articles about United States culture is planned for distribution in Romania by USA Today and Centrade, a Houston-based trading and consulting firm.
Date: 05 October 1990
By John F. Burns, Special To the New York Times
John Burns
LEAD: In the office of Dr. Mohammed Tawal, the director of the largest children's hospital in Iraq, and in the conference room and secretary's office that adjoin it, there are 13 images of President Saddam Hussein.
Date: 05 October 1990
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A2-14 The Sudan faces a major famine for the third time in six years. But this time the U.S. has warned the Islamic fundamentalist Government that pleas for help will be ignored. Page A1 Sudan chief says he won't change aid or politics A6
Date: 05 October 1990
Reuters
LEAD: Sony, the Japanese electronics giant, and Hughes Aircraft, a unit of the General Motors Corporation, plan to develop an audio-visual system that would allow airline passengers to watch movies on a personal video screen, order in-flight merchandise with a credit card and make telephone calls from their seats.
Date: 04 October 1990
Reuters
LEAD: James Hardie Industries agreed to buy the GardenAmerica Corporation, a United States sprinkler system company, from the Black & Decker Corporation for $40 million. It said the deal, to be completed by Nov. 30, would double James Hardie's sprinkler activities in the United States. GardenAmerica has annual sales in excess of $60 million.
Date: 05 October 1990
AP
LEAD: The Bank of New York has purchased Bank of New England Associates, the investment banking subsidiary of the Bank of New England, for an undisclosed price. The subsidiary will be renamed Bank of New York Associates and will act as an intermediary in arranging mergers, acquisitions, private placements of debt, equity securities and financial restructuring services.
Date: 04 October 1990
AP
LEAD: A leading credit-rating agency downgraded the debt and preferred stock of the Unisys Corporation, saying the country's third-largest computer maker has dim prospects for sustaining any improved profits. A Unisys spokesman, Peter Hynes, said the company was disappointed by the downgrade by Moody's Investor Services Inc.