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Date: 16 August 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The weekly news magazine Der Spiegel has reported that Volkswagen A.G., contrary to its official statements, is considering the dismissal of its controversial cost-cutter Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua. In its Monday issue, which was made available ahead of publication, Der Spiegel reports that Klaus Liesen, the chairman of VW's supervisory board, is secretly "already thinking about replacing Lopez."
Date: 16 August 1993
International A2-7 IN MEXICO, THE POLLUTION HURDLE Although Mexico's environmental laws are viewed as good, they seem to be undermined by insufficient and uncertain resources, political considerations and corruption. A1 DEPORTED ARABS ACCEPT DEAL Four hundred Palestinians who were deported to Lebanon in December accepted an Israeli plan that would return nearly half of them to the occupied territories in September and the rest in December. A1
Date: 16 August 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. has reached a settlement with Alan Ladd Jr. that will pay Mr. Ladd, its former chairman and chief executive, at least $5 million. Mr. Ladd's employment contract with the movie studio called for him to receive $5.25 million through 1994. "He received at least that," said a person familiar with the situation.
Date: 15 August 1993
Interactive: It's the buzzword of the moment, describing electronic devices by which people can respond to their television and computer screens. For half a century, New York Times readers have interacted the old-fashioned way, in writing. Every day, the crossword puzzle turns Times readers into Times writers. Every day, one on one, thousands engage the puzzle editor who, sometimes devilish and sometimes pedantic, becomes a friend. A few days ago, we lost such a friend. Eugene T. Maleska, our puzzle editor since 1977, died in Daytona Beach, Fla., at the age of 77. His death followed by only three months that of Will Weng, his predecessor and fellow cigar lover, at the age of 86. Will served as puzzle editor from 1969 till 1977, succeeding Margaret Farrar, who started the Times Sunday crossword in 1942.
Date: 16 August 1993
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
After decades of predictions by publishing executives and futurists, electronic newspapers are finally arriving on personal computer screens across the country. On-line editions of major papers recently blinked into existence in St. Louis, Chicago, San Jose, Calif., and elsewhere, and they are expected within months in New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Austin, Tex., and many other cities.
Date: 16 August 1993
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
Television has its national networks. Electronic newspapers, it seems, are about to have theirs. Newspaper executives say the industry has begun an evolution toward a handful of national electronic networks that will offer local "brand name" newspaper services. For instance, one of those networks, America Online, now carries "Chicago Online," the service of The Chicago Tribune.
Date: 15 August 1993
Lisa Michelle Paul, the daughter of Laurence and Patricia Paul of Summit, N.J., was married yesterday to Peter Kenneth Frankel, the son of Ina Frankel of Levittown, L.I. The Rev. James Covington, a Unitarian minister, performed the ceremony at the Rihga Royal Hotel in New York. Mrs. Frankel, 27, is a fashion merchandiser for British Khaki Inc., a clothing manufacturer in New York. Her father is a copy editor on the national news desk of The New York Times. Her mother is a design consultant at Domain, a home-furnishings store in Short Hills, N.J.
Date: 16 August 1993
By Alan Truscott
Alan Truscott
A large number of deals focus around the queen of trumps: can the declarer guess where it is? Even when it is located, it may still prove to be a thorn in declarer's flesh, as witness the diagramed deal from the Life Master Pairs Championship in Washington last month. The declarer was Lenore Server of River Vale, N.J., and her admiring partner was Leonard Karp of Tenafly, N.J. He was revisiting the scene of a triumph in the Markus Cup at his first Nationals almost 40 years earlier. The partnership was playing the fourth-suit bid of two diamonds as game-forcing, an idea that is now popular although theoretically dubious: There are many hands with about 11 points that need to use a fourth-suit bid at the two-level to invite a game without guaranteeing one. The alternative is to use it as forcing to two no-trump or until a suit bid is raised.
Date: 15 August 1993
The former world middleweight champion CARLOS MONZON, halfway through an 11-year sentence for murder, will be allowed to spend daytime hours and weekends outside prison, according to officials in Santa Fe, Argentina. Monzon, 51, was convicted in 1988 for the murder of his girlfriend, model ALICIA MUNIZ. He will be eligible for parole in 1995, when he completes two thirds of his sentence. Starting yesterday, he was also allowed to train amateur boxers at a local gym and return to prison at night, the official news agency Telam reported.