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Date: 12 March 1992
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
Because of a shortfall in advertising and circulation revenues, The Daily News lost about $1.5 million in February, which was roughly twice the $755,000 million deficit that the paper's management had projected. The unexpectedly large loss comes at a critical moment in the paper's search for a buyer after declaring bankruptcy after the death of Robert Maxwell, the owner.
Date: 13 March 1992
By Stuart Elliott
Stuart Elliott
Asserting that advertisers wield a corrupting power of censorship over the news media that run their ads, a public-interest organization is urging curbs on that power. The Center for the Study of Commercialism has released a report called "Dictating Content: How Advertising Pressure Can Corrupt a Free Press." The report cited examples of what the center called a type of censorship "far more subtle" than government control of the media. Among the examples previously reported by the media were instances of unhappy auto dealers forcing local newspapers and television stations to retract articles they deemed critical of their businesses.
Date: 13 March 1992
By Steve Lohr
Steve Lohr
Eyeing their cash registers, showrooms and shop floors, many American business executives are starting to see signs that the nation's sluggish economy is at last turning the corner. Nearly half of 490 business executives surveyed in a New York Times/ CBS News Poll, see some inkling of improvement. Forty-seven percent of the executives, representing a randomly selected cross section of American industry from multibillion-dollar corporations to small family firms, said they were convinced that the economy was getting better. Forty-four percent said it was staying the same, while only 9 percent described it as getting worse.
Date: 12 March 1992
By Lee A. Daniels
Lee Daniels
The former editor in chief of El Diario-La Prensa, the city's leading Spanish-language daily newspaper, was shot to death last night as he sat in a restaurant in Jackson Heights, Queens, the police said. The journalist, Manuel de Dios Unanue, was sitting in the Meson Asturias restaurant at 40-12 83d Street when one or two gunmen walked up to him and shot him at point-blank range shortly after 9 P.M., the police said.
Date: 13 March 1992
By Joseph B. Treaster
Joseph
The bold slaying of a crusading journalist, who was a specialist on the world of illegal drugs, in a Queens restaurant Wednesday night followed the lethal pattern that Colombian cocaine traffickers have repeatedly used to silence critics in South America, the New York City police and Latin American journalists said yesterday. The police said it was not immediately clear whether the hooded gunman who fired two bullets into the back of the head of the journalist, Manuel de Dios Unanue, was working for one of the two main Colombia drug cartels.
Date: 13 March 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Sterling Optical Corporation asked the New York Stock Exchange to cease trading its stock today after its committee of unsecured creditors decided not to exercise the option to convert the company's asset sale to a reorganization plan. Sterling said there would be no remaining value for its equity holders after creditors are paid, if the asset sale was closed according to terms approved by the presiding bankruptcy court. The company has been under Chapter 11 protection since Dec. 31. Sterling has slightly more than five million shares outstanding, which last traded on Wednesday at 37.5 cents.
Date: 13 March 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Nicolet Instrument Corporation said it had signed a letter to acquire BMSI Holdings Inc. for Nicolet common stock. No other terms were disclosed. BMSI Holdings is a producer of neurologic monitoring equipment for epilepsy based in Los Gatos, Calif. Nicolet also said Peter McKane, its executive vice president and chief operating officer, will retire on March 31. No replacement was named. Nicolet, based in Madison, makes diagnostic testing equipment.
Date: 13 March 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Aegon N.V., the Dutch insurer, said it had signed an agreement with a Hungarian Government agency to acquire 75 percent of Allami Biztosito, Hungary's largest insurer. Terms were not disclosed. Under the agreement with the State Property Agency, the Hungarian Government will retain 20 percent of Allami, while the remainder may be acquired by the company's employees.
Date: 13 March 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company said its international network systems unit had won a $26 million order to supply fiber-optic cable to Poland's national telephone monopoly. A.T.& T. said it would transfer fiber-optic technology to OTO Lublin, a Polish company, which would make the cable. Initially, OTO Lublin will use the cable to build an 875-mile fiber system linking several cities. A.T.& T. said the company would use engineers from its American operations in the technology transfer. The American company declined to specify the cost of the technology move. Work is to begin later this year.
Date: 13 March 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Kennecott Corporation, a subsidiary of the RTZ Corporation P.L.C. of London, said it was planning an $880 million smelter and refinery expansion at its copper and gold plant that will increase production while reducing emissions. The project is expected to be completed by 1995 at the plant, near Salt Lake City.