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Date: 01 August 1991
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
NBC News and the Public Broadcasting Service plan joint television coverage of the 1992 political conventions. The move, which was announced yesterday, is an effort to expand the coverage that each organization had originally scheduled and that had been limited by what one NBC News executive called the "changed realities of broadcasting economics."
Date: 31 July 1991
Reuters
Alamo Rent-A-Car Inc. agreed to refund $3 million to customers who were overcharged for repair costs on damaged rental cars. The agreement, which staved off a Federal investigation, covers people who were billed to pay for collision damage repairs on cars they rented from Alamo, the nation's No. 5 rental company, from January 1983 through December 1989. Prosecutors said the company collected more from its customers than it paid for repairs, then kept the difference.
Date: 01 August 1991
INTERNATIONAL A3-12 A far-reaching U.S.-Soviet treaty was signed by Presidents Bush and Gorbachev to scale down their nations' stocks of long-range nuclear weapons. They then joined in a bid to stage a comparably momentous Middle East peace meeting. Page A1 Excerpts from Bush-Gorbachev comments on cooperation A10 U.S.-Soviet pact paves way for cooperation in the cosmosA12 Reporter's notebook: Big moment, bad earpiece A12 Secretary Baker will go to Israel to obtain an official Israeli statement expressing its willingness to attend a peace conference in October, even though it has problems over which Palestinians attend such talks, President Bush said. A1 Israel remains noncommittal on proposal A11 Six Lithuanian border guards were killed and two critically wounded in a predawn machine-gun attack on a customs post near the breakaway republic's border with Soviet Byelorussia, officials said. A8 Ukrainians await Bush with skepticism A12 Croatia has drawn up a peace plan offering its Serb minority key conces- sions it had sought, including home rule, control over the local police and greater political power, Croatian officials said. A3 Europeans try to ease Croatian crisis A3 A Persian Gulf security alliance between local governments and the United States is near completion, American officials say. A6 $94 million in U.S. aid to Peru will be released, the Administration announced, after deciding that Peru had improved its human rights record. The money is largely meant to combat the cultivation of narcotic coca plants. A9 Imelda Marcos assails Manila's terms for returnA7 Dungeon is fate for a Chinese who tilted inside the system A8 Bangkok Journal: A wife-versus-mistress scandal A4 NATIONAL A13-18, B6-7 The nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court was opposed by the nation's largest civil rights group, the N.A.A.C.P., and the leaders of organized labor. A1 A 1986 C.I.A. report on B.C.C.I. indicated that the rogue international bank had acquired control of Washington's largest banking company in 1982, the agency said. A1 B.C.C.I.'s flashy man in Argentina D1 Spying at nuclear weapons plants has been taking place in violation of Federal law, according to an Energy Department report, which says that security personnel had illegally acquired and used equipment for wiretapping and other surveillance. A18 A law banning female military pilots from flying combat planes was overturned by the Senate. The measure permits but does not require the Air Force, the Navy, the Army and the Marine Corps to allow women to fly combat missions. A1 A train derailed and crashed into a group of freight cars in South Carolina, killing eight people and injuring as many as 125, transportation officials said. A14 A bus carrying a girl scout group overturned in Palm Springs, Calif., killing at least seven people and injuring dozens, some critically, officials said. A14 A new medicare fee schedule would substantially cut payments to doctors and could make it harder for elderly people to gain access to health care, a Federal advisory panel said. A17 The addition of a new heart drug to standard treatments for chronic heart failure sharply reduced death and illness from the condition, two studies have found. B7 Safety data on an anesthetic drug was withheld from the F.D.A. by the drug company, F. Hoffman-La Roche, a consumer advocate said, citing internal company documents. B7 Health director withdraws from misconduct cases B6 Doctors urged to be frank on breast implant risk B6 Judge orders review of rules on irrigation water A14 The William K. Smith rape case was postponed by the judge, who said she would rule soon on defense requests that she prohibit televising the trial and limit public disclosure of court documents. A16 Shuttle prepares for morning liftoff B7 REGIONAL B1-5 A program for drug users, which gives them new needles in exchange for old ones, is helping to curb the spread of the AIDS virus, a new study says. A1 AIDS victims who were infected through blood transfusions have the right to interrogate the donors of the contaminated blood, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled. B1 A rape conviction from 1984 was overturned by a New York State judge, basing his decision on recent DNA tests, which showed that semen on the victim's underpants was not the defendant's. B1 Jury hears taped confession in Bronx club fire that killed 87 B3 The door to the Mayor's office will be open to the public next Monday, but not as open as Mayor Dinkins seemed to promise in a recent speech. Mayoral aides will be screening those who show up. B1 Dinkins's proposals get lukewarm response in Albany B3 Holtzman quietly rescinds pay cuts for her and some aides B3 The multicultural education debate has found a lightning rod: Thomas Sobol, the New York State Education Commissioner. His conduct seems to have entered the debate as much as philosophical and educational issues. B1 New York school attendance rises and so does state aid B4 Noted scientist and staff leave Rockefeller U. B4 Two police officers deliver a baby on the Triborough Bridge B3 BUSINESS DIGEST D1 The Home Section Seeing inside some special corners of New York C1 Surviving vacation: It's a family battle C1 Designs of nature, by the potato man C1 Parent & Child: When children are apart C2 Currents C3 Home Improvement C4 Repairing a drop-leaf table C5 Where a mother can help another C8 A Gardener's World: Searching for fall's treasures C10 Arts/Entertainment China's films turn to propaganda C15 Finding humor in big Government C15 Film: "Weininger's Last Night" C14 Music: Pop in Reviews C17 Dance: Lucinda Childs C15 Theater: Five one-act musicals C14 Word and Image: A hybrid book on Brando C19 Images of Bush and Gorbachev C20 Reporter's Notebook C15 NBC and PBS to pool coverage of political conventions C22 Obituaries D20 Pierre Brunet, champion skater F. Brantley Scott, urologist Sports B8-15 Baseball: Twins rout Yankees B9 Darling traded to Oakland B9 Tumbling Pirates go south in Atlanta B10 Red Sox beat A's in 14th B11 Perez optimistic B11 Notebook B12 Basketball: Riley expects to have Ewing on team B11 Football: Giants sign top pick B9 Jets gear up for game B13 Column: Berkow on Ray FelixB9 Golf: The latest prodigy B15 Hockey: Ultimatum from LaFontaineB14 Pan Am Games: Cuba loses baseball star B12 Soccer: New ideas for World Cup in New York B15 SportsPeople B14 Editorials/Letters/Op-Ed Editorials A20 Reduce the "renegade" risk Pretoria's Gorbachev Pain, limited. Bases, closed. Topics: Season's cheatings
Date: 01 August 1991
* C3 Inc., Herndon, Va., a computer company, aid it would aquire Telos Corp., Santa Monica, Calif., a computer software company, for $42 million. * Data General Corp., Westborough, Mass., said it would buy the computer-maintenance unit of HBO & Company, an Atlanta-based provider of clinical and financial products to health-care organizations. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Date: 31 July 1991
* Castle & Cooke Inc., Los Angeles, said shareholders had voted to retire the company's 140-year-old name in favor of Dole Food Co.. * Dun & Bradstreet Software, Atlanta, announced a partnership with Powersoft Corp., Burlington, Mass., to develop software for personal computers.
Date: 01 August 1991
Midway Airlines Inc., which last month introduced a policy of fully refundable excursion fares, said it was doubling, to 48 hours, the period in which passengers must buy their excursion tickets after making reservations. The extension takes effect immediately. A spokesman for the Chicago-based carrier said the longer deadline was for the convenience of customers and travel agents.
Date: 01 August 1991
By Richard W. Stevenson
Richard Stevenson
A Federal judge yesterday voided the Pentagon's award of a submarine-building contract to the General Dynamics Corporation's Electric Boat division and ordered the Navy to hold a new competition on terms more favorable to a competitor, Tenneco Inc.'s Newport News shipyard. The ruling, by Judge Robert Doumar of the United States District Court in Norfolk, Va., gives Newport News another shot at winning the contract to build the second SSN-22 Seawolf attack submarine.
Date: 01 August 1991
The Sony Corporation of America said it had acquired a 38-acre parcel of land from the Ford Motor Company in San Jose, Calif., for about $22.8 million. The site will be developed into an office for Sony's computer, professional broadcasting equipment and other non-consumer businesses. The company plans to complete a 500,000-square-foot building by 1993.
Date: 31 July 1991
Freeman Spogli & Company, an investment firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles, said it had agreed to buy the Purity Supreme supermarket operations from the Supermarkets General Holdings Corporation for about $300 million, including the acquisition of debt.