Guild Is Gaining Major Role In Labor Talks at The News
Date: 29 March 1990
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
LEAD: After The Daily News's offer on Monday to raise hourly wages significantly for members of the Newspaper Guild, that union has emerged as an important player in the paper's bitter labor negotiations with its 10 unions.
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Israeli Army Drops Ban on Press Group Run by Palestinians
Date: 29 March 1990
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: The Israeli Army lifted a ban on a Palestinian news agency today, two years after the authorities shut it down by military order.
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Chronicle
Date: 28 March 1990
By Susan Heller Anderson
Susan Anderson
LEAD: Ambassador YURI V. DUBININ has given a new Soviet magazine, a monthly full-color publication called Vestnik (which means Chronicle), its Washington debut.
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News Summary
Date: 29 March 1990
LEAD: International A3-15 Mexico's economic nationalism may be disappearing now that President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has agreed to consider negotiations for a free-trade agreement with the United States. Page A1 An Iraqi smuggling ring that was attempting to divert to Iraq electronic devices used to trigger nuclear weapons was caught by American and British authorities.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 28 March 1990
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A2-10 The leaders of Lithuania marshaled their meager police force to protect government and communications centers after Soviet troops seized army deserters and secured the Communist headquarters. Page A1
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Cuts at First Union
Date: 28 March 1990
Reuters
LEAD: The First Union Corporation said it plans to cut operating costs by $35 million this year and $70 million in 1991 after its recent acquisition of Florida National Banks Inc. The company told shareholders in its annual report that substantial pretax savings are projected from ''eliminating duplicate facilities and job functions.
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Rail Buyer Sought
Date: 29 March 1990
AP
LEAD: The trustee for the bankrupt Delaware & Hudson Railway Company has been given less than two more weeks to find a buyer for the freight carrier or face the liquidation of the nation's oldest continually operated railroad. United States Bankruptcy Judge Helen Balick granted a request on Tuesday from the trustee, Francis Dicello, for an extension to continue operating the road while a buyer is sought.
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Intergroup Meets With Centaur
Date: 28 March 1990
LEAD: National Intergroup Inc., the Pittsburgh holding company with interests in drug distribution and steel, said its chairman, Howard M. Love, had met twice with officials of Centaur Partners, an investment firm engaged in a proxy battle to increase Intergroup's 12-member board by three seats.
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Ford to Shut Plant
Date: 29 March 1990
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: The Ford Motor Company said it would shut its assembly plant in Lorain, Ohio, next week, idling about 2,700 hourly workers. The closing results from slow sales of the Thunderbird and Cougar models assembled at the plant, which was also closed for four of the first six weeks of 1990. A market analyst at Ford said that sales of full-sized specialty cars like Thunderbird and Cougar ''have been considerably weaker this year than the car market in general.
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Newmark & Lewis And Brick Church
Date: 29 March 1990
LEAD: Newmark & Lewis Inc., a leading regional retailer of appliances and electronics, agreed to acquire substantially all the retailing assets of Brick Church Appliances Inc., a New Jersey appliance and electronics chain, as well as a 220,000-square-foot warehouse and office building. The purchase price is $7.8 million in cash and the assumption of certain liabilities.
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