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Guild Quits Umbrella Group in News Fight

Date: 13 January 1993

The union fight over The Daily News took a new turn yesterday when the Newspaper Guild of New York said it was withdrawing from the Allied Printing Trades Council, a 140-year-old union umbrella group. The guild, which hired a labor organizer to set up a boycott of The News after Mortimer B. Zuckerman took over as publisher without reaching a contract for its members, announced that its executive board had voted unanimously to pull out of the council "in the best interests of our members."

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NBC Names Producer, 27, To News Job

Date: 14 January 1993

NBC News yesterday appointed Jeff Zucker to be executive producer of the "NBC Nightly News" program. Mr. Zucker, who is 27, made headlines, and made many people feel old, a year ago when he was named executive producer of NBC's "Today." He was the youngest person ever named to that post and will be the youngest person ever to run the network's evening news broadcast.

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Newspaper Union Chief Accused of Corruption

Date: 14 January 1993

By Richard Perez-Pena

Richard Perez-Pena

Douglas LaChance, president of the newspaper deliverers' union in New York City, has held secret partnerships in nonunion delivery companies, used strong-arm tactics against newspapers and competing companies to enrich himself, and has undercut his own union, prosecutors charged yesterday. Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan District Attorney, announced a grand jury indictment against Mr. LaChance, a convicted felon who faces a possible return to prison for a parole violation, and four other people and two companies, charging them with criminal conspiracy, restraint of trade, extortion and other offenses.

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METRO DIGEST

Date: 13 January 1993

HIRING OF CASEWORKERS PROMISED The Dinkins administration, acknowledging that the city's child-abuse investigators are seriously overworked, said it would move quickly to hire 300 new caseworkers for the city's Child Welfare Administration, increasing the number of child-abuse investigators by 20 percent and reducing their caseloads by about one third. A1. NEW YORK CITY FLORISTS MOVING TO THE BRONX

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Hard to Stifle Press if Royals Do the Leaking

Date: 14 January 1993

By John Darnton

John Darnton

A Government attempt to bring the press to heel, largely for the way it covers the royal family, has backfired into a new scandal over Buckingham Palace that has done more damage to the reputations of the Princess of Wales, the Prince of Wales, the palace press office and even the Government. The latest scandal began Tuesday when The Guardian printed a private letter written a month ago by Lord McGregor of Durris, who is chairman of the current Press Complaints Commission but has criticized suggestions of tighter controls. The new proposals include a code of conduct to limit press reports on the private lives of public figures.

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Delay Is Sought on Olympia

Date: 14 January 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Olympia & York Developments Ltd., the troubled Canadian developer, said today that its unsecured creditors want to delay their vote on a debt reorganization plan until Jan. 25. The 10-day delay would give the creditors -- who are owed about half the $8.6 billion Canadian ($6.7 billion United States) involved in the company's Canadian court proceedings -- time to review changes to the plan, Olympia said. The changes stem from meetings with creditors earlier this week.

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SUPER AMERICA TO SELL FLORIDA SERVICE STATIONS

Date: 13 January 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Super America Group Inc., a unit of Ashland Oil Inc., said yesterday that it had agreed in principle to sell its 51 Florida service stations and convenience stores to the Shell Oil Company in an effort to reduce debt. No price was given for the cash sale, which was expected to be completed in several weeks, according to an Ashland spokesman. Shell said it intended to operate the stations under its name.

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KMART'S CREDIT RATING UNDER REVIEW BY MOODY'S

Date: 14 January 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Moody's Investors Service Inc. said this week that it might lower its rating on the Kmart Corporation's debt because the retailer's December sales were weak and results at remodeled stores had fallen short of the agency's expectations. About $4 billion of Kmart's debt would be affected. The Standard & Poor's Corporation, however, said it had no plans to lower Kmart's debt rating.

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THIRD BIDDER STEPS FORWARD FOR EL PASO ELECTRIC

Date: 14 January 1993

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The Central and South West Corporation of Dallas said it is in talks with the El Paso Electric Company and some of its creditors about acquiring the company as a wholly owned subsidiary once it emerges from bankruptcy reorganization. Although El Paso has said it had spoken with at least six potential buyers, Central and South West is only the third company to disclose an interest. The Southwestern Public Service Company of Amarillo, Tex., and Southern Union Gas, a unit of the Austin-based Southern Union Company, previously acknowledged discussions with El Paso.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 14 January 1993

International A3-17 ALLIES BOMB SOUTHERN IRAQ Warplanes from the United States, France and Britain bombed missile sites in southern Iraq, two years after the allies claimed to have decisively defeated Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf war and just a week before President Bush is scheduled to leave office. A1 CLINTON WON'T RULE OUT FORCE President-elect Bill Clinton said he would not rule out renewing the ground war against Iraq if necessary to force compliance with United Nations resolutions. But he also indicated he was ready for a fresh start with President Hussein. A1

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