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5th of February 1994 News
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TENTATIVE SETTLEMENT AGAINST SPECTRUM COLLAPSES
Date: 05 February 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
A tentative settlement of a lawsuit brought by shareholders against Spectrum Information Technologies Inc. has collapsed in the wake of disclosures about the wireless data company, lawyers for shareholders said yesterday. The lawsuit, consolidating 18 suits filed last year, charges that Spectrum and its top executives issued false and misleading statements to inflate the price of the stock. The suit was filed in Federal District Court in New York. Spectrum agreed to settle the shareholder suit on Nov. 8. The memorandum of understanding covering the settlement agreement included a $1.5 million cash payment as well as the issuance of 750,000 warrants to buy Spectrum stock at or above market price.
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BELLSOUTH ENDS TIE TO MEXICO CELLULAR PROVIDER
Date: 05 February 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The BellSouth Corporation has sold its interest of about 30 percent in a Guadalajara cellular company to Grupo Iusacell S.A., Mexico's second-largest cellular provider. The Atlanta-based regional telephone company said yesterday that it expected to report an after-tax gain of $67 million, or 13.5 cents a share, on the sale. The sale leaves the Bell Atlantic Corporation as the leading United States player in the fast-growing Mexican cellular market. Last year, Philadelphia-based Bell Atlantic agreed to pay $1 billion for a 40 percent stake in Grupo Iusacell. BellSouth established Communications Celulares de Occidente S.A. in 1990 after winning the cellular concession in Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city. It was BellSouth's only cellular business in Mexico. BellSouth stock closed down $1.875, at $56.625 yesterday, on the New York Stock Exchange.
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SPINOFF OF RAYONIER FOREST PRODUCTS UNIT IS SET
Date: 05 February 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The ITT Corporation said yesterday that its spinoff of its Rayonier Inc. forest products subsidiary to shareholders would occur on Feb. 24. Shareholders will receive one Rayonier common share for every four shares of ITT common stock and one Rayonier Inc. common share for every 3.1595 shares of ITT series N preferred stock held at the close of business on Feb. 24. ITT's shares closed down $2.25 yesterday, to $98.625, on the New York Stock Exchange. ITT announced in December 1993 that it would spin off its forest products subsidiary to ITT shareholders. Rayonier is a leading forest products company, engaged in the production and sale of timber and wood products and specialty pulps. It has markets in more than 60 countries.
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WESTWOOD ONE COMPLETES PURCHASE OF UNISTAR RADIO
Date: 05 February 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Westwood One Inc. said yesterday that it had completed the purchase of Unistar Radio Networks Inc. from the Infinity Broadcasting Corporation for $101.3 million, creating the second-largest radio network in the country. At the same time, Infinity is acquiring 25 percent of Westwood One, making it the largest shareholder in the company and is installing its management to run Westwood One. Mel Karmazin, Infinity's chairman and chief executive, will become chief executive at Westwood One, succeeding Norman Pattiz, who remains chairman.
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Sale Is Set For Boston Newspaper
Date: 05 February 1994
Rupert Murdoch said today that he would sell The Boston Herald to its publisher of the last 10 years, Patrick J. Purcell. The sale will clear the way for Mr. Murdoch to buy back the local Fox television station, WFXT, Channel 25. He was forced to sell the station in 1989 by the Federal Communications Commission, which prohibits companies from owning two media outlets in the same market.
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Competing Suitors Emerge For Newspaper in Britain
Date: 05 February 1994
By Richard W. Stevenson
Richard Stevenson
A full-blown fight erupted today for control of The Independent, the innovative British newspaper that has fallen on hard times. The battle's first round went to Anthony F. J. O'Reilly, the chairman of the H. J. Heinz Company and the owner of Ireland's largest newspaper publishing company. Mr. O'Reilly, who has long sought a toehold in the British newspaper business, bought a stake of nearly 25 percent in Newspaper Publishing P.L.C., the parent company of The Independent and The Independent on Sunday, for $:18.4 million in cash, or $27.6 million. The price was equal to $:3.50 for a share of the closely held company.
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Good News, Then Bad News for the Yen This Week
Date: 05 February 1994
, International Herald Tribune
FOR dollar-orientated investors, the upsurge in the Japanese equity market was compounded over the week by the strength of the yen. Until Friday's rise in U.S interest rates, all news was good news for the yen, which started out the week at a mid-price of
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 06 February 1994
International 3-21 SHELL KILLS 66 IN SARAJEVO A mortar exploded in the jammed central market of Sarajevo, killing at least 66 people and wounding at least 200. It was the worst massacre since the Serbian siege of the Bosnian capital began 22 months ago. 1 The United States renewed vague threats of action in Bosnia. 13
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 05 February 1994
International 3-5 HEADY ERA OPENS IN VIETNAM Armed with checkbooks and marketing plans, American business people began flooding back onto the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, to capitalize on the lifting of the American trade embargo against Vietnam. In the streets, many people reacted with excitement. 1
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Polytechnic Unit to Aid Factories
Date: 06 February 1994
By States News
States News
DR. Charles Hoover has always worked on a shoestring budget to train engineers to fix problems in American factories. This month, using Federal money that has been at the Department of Defense awaiting marching orders for more than two years, Dr. Hoover, who heads the master's in manufacturing engineering program at Polytechnic University, will be able to pay two new professors, offer fellowships for the first time and place interns in factories in Westchester.
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