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Date: 20 August 1988
LEAD: International 2-5, 28 No Navy officers will be disciplined for the downing of an Iranian civilian airliner by an American warship over the Persian Gulf, Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci said. A report on the incident was released. Page 1 Military analysis: The Navy's rules of accountability for ship captains appear to have been bent by the Defense Secretary, who approved the recommendations of the Vincennes board of investigation.
Date: 20 August 1988
LEAD: Thomas B. Dorsey, former director of the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service, died of a heart atttack Wednesday at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 60 years old.
Date: 20 August 1988
AP
LEAD: The Koppers Company said that it had agreed to sell its environmental resources subsidiary in its first divestiture since it was acquired in June by Beazer P.L.C. of Britain for $1.8 billion. Terms were not disclosed on the sale of Keystone Environmental Resources Inc., based in Monroeville, Pa., to the Pittsburgh-based Chester Engineers Inc.
Date: 20 August 1988
LEAD: LCI Communications Inc., a medium-size telecommunications company, has agreed to be acquired by two investment firms, E. M. Warburg, Pincus & Company and Primus Venture Partners, for about $200 million. The cash transaction includes the Litel Communications Corporation, an LCI subisidary based in Worthington, Ohio.
Date: 20 August 1988
By Seth Mydans, Special To the New York Times
Seth Mydans
LEAD: ''Learning from the past,'' Burma's new leader, U Maung Maung, once wrote, ''may give us humility and help us grow big.''
Date: 21 August 1988
By States News Service
States Service
LEAD: REPUBLICANS considering a run for the governorship of New Jersey went on a crusade at the party's national convention: a crusade to make sure that none of the county Republican chairmen went hungry.
Date: 20 August 1988
By Andrew Pollack, Special To the New York Times
Andrew Pollack
LEAD: At many companies, the interoffice memo has learned to talk. A new generation of telephone answering machines is replacing the memo and the message slip, uprooting office folkways in the process.
Date: 20 August 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: SCEcorp, maintaining pressure on its intended takeover target, said today that it had sweetened its stock-swap offer for the San Diego Gas and Electric Company to $2.25 billion from $2.15 billion.
Date: 20 August 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: PPG Industries said today that it had reached an agreement to acquire the Grow Group Inc. for $16.625 a share, or about $233 million. The price reflects Grow