NEWS SUMMARY: SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1988
Date: 09 January 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL/2-5
9 stycznia 1988 roku była sobota pod znakiem zodiaku ♑. Był to 8 dzień roku. Prezydentem Stanów Zjednoczonych był Ronald Reagan.
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Date: 09 January 1988
By Linda Amster
Linda Amster
LEAD: Questions are based on news reports in The Times this week. Answers appear on page 53.
Date: 10 January 1988
By Howell Raines, Special To the New York Times
Howell Raines
LEAD: In a fresh move to guard the increasingly shopworn secrets of its intelligence services, the British Government is trying to suppress yet another book describing the services as riddled with would-be traitors and homosexuals.
Date: 10 January 1988
By Stephen Engelberg, Special To the New York Times
Stephen Engelberg
LEAD: A day after Vice President Bush challenged Senator Bob Dole to make his tax returns public, the Bush campaign began sending reporters copies of an article in a small Kansas newspaper that raised questions about a real estate transaction by a blind trust belonging to the Senator's wife, Elizabeth Hanford
Date: 10 January 1988
By Andy Grundberg
Andy Grundberg
LEAD: THE CURRENT ISSUE OF LIFE Magazine, devoted to ''The Year in Pictures'' for 1987, features a remarkable portrait of Lt. Col. Oliver L. North. Taken by the photojournalist Harry Benson, it shows the star of the summer's Iran-contra hearings in full-dress uniform, standing at attention next to an American flag.
Date: 09 January 1988
By Calvin Sims
Calvin Sims
LEAD: Tandem Computer Inc.'s shares lost a quarter of their value yesterday after the company, which makes business computer systems, said revenues for the quarter just ended would not meet its expectations.
Date: 09 January 1988
Reuters
LEAD: Cooper Lasersonics Inc. said that because of the difficulty it had encountered in turning around its laser business, it was no longer considering a spinoff of the business. Cooper had said in June that it would spin off the business as a separate public company by this month. The company said it was considering other divestitures to maximize shareholder values.
Date: 10 January 1988
AP
LEAD: United Press International is planning to reduce its coverage of local news and instead concentrate on major news events in an effort to put the company back on a solid financial footing, a U.P.I. spokesman said today.