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Date: 17 November 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-19 The Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney, is running hard five days before the election in an emotional and bitter campaign that reveals much about the troubled divisions across this vast land. Page A1
Date: 17 November 1988
LEAD: Jack Berkowitz, a magazine consultant, and Gary Hoenig, a news executive at Newsday, plan to bring out a magazine about the business of newspapers, News Inc., starting next spring. The two partners said they expected to complete talks with Adweek magazine later this month to produce the project as a joint venture.
Date: 17 November 1988
By Gerald M. Boyd, Special To the New York Times
Gerald
LEAD: When Gov. John H. Sununu of New Hampshire was first mentioned several weeks ago as a possible White House chief of staff, many of President-elect Bush's closest aides were skeptical.
Date: 18 November 1988
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: An American journalist died in Afghanistan earlier this week while on her way from the eastern city of Jalalabad to the Pakistani border, people close to the Afghan guerrilla movement said today. Karin Wimberger, a freelance from Los Angeles, was apparently suffering from hepatitis when she lapsed into a coma near the border, said a spokesman for the National Islamic Front of Afghanistan.
Date: 17 November 1988
LEAD: * American President Cos., Oakland, Calif., said it intends to buy 4.4 million of its shares at $34 a share. The shares were among those tendered to the company in a Dutch auction.
Date: 18 November 1988
AP
LEAD: The Morrison Knudsen Corporation has begun ''substantive negotiations'' with a management-led group of employees interested in buying its National Steel and Shipbuilding Company. The San Diego-based subsidiary accounted for $19.9 million of Morrison Knudsen's $55 million operating loss in the first nine months of this year, said a Morrison Knudsen spokesman, Vern Nelson.
Date: 18 November 1988
LEAD: Veeco Instruments Inc., a Melville, L.I., maker of power supplies, agreed to be acquired by Unitech P.L.C., a British manufacturer of electronic components. The price is $26.50 a share in cash, which Unitech said would total about $327 million. Peter Curry, chairman of Unitech, based in Reading, England, said, ''The acquisition will create a group which includes the world's largest manufacturer of power supplies and a leading supplier of instrumentation.
Date: 18 November 1988
By Jeremy Gerard
Jeremy Gerard
LEAD: Moving to reorganize its overseas operations and save money, the National Broadcasting Company has agreed to acquire 37.75 percent of Visnews Ltd., a London-based international news agency jointly owned by Reuters Holdings P.L.C. and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Date: 18 November 1988
LEAD: Following is a transcript of a news conference by President-elect Bush and Gov. John H. Sununu of New Hampshire in Washington yesterday, as recorded by The New York Times through the facilitiies of Cable News Network: OPENING STATEMENT