NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 16 March 1989
LEAD: International A3-15
15. март 1989. је био среда под знаком звездице ♓. Био је 73 дан у години. Председник Сједињених Држава је био George Bush.
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Date: 16 March 1989
By Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis
LEAD: Britain's largest-selling newspaper is the Sunday News of the World. (''Last week's sale 5,377,000.'') The lead story last Sunday, marked Exclusive, began:
Date: 15 March 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-14 Strife in the West Bank has brought economic stagnation. In the once-thriving town of Beit Sahur, attitudes toward Israel and the Jews are hardening. Page A1
Date: 15 March 1989
By Thomas C. Hayes, Special To the New York Times
Thomas Hayes
LEAD: Five weeks after receiving a huge order for its wide-bodied MD-11 commercial aircraft, the McDonnell Douglas Corporation said today that it had agreed to pay the General Dynamics Corporation about $2 billion over the next six years to produce fuselage sections for the new plane.
Date: 16 March 1989
Reuters
LEAD: A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recommended only limited use of Merck & Company's new Losec ulcer drug, citing a potential risk of cancer. The Gastrointestinal Drugs Advisory Committee voted unanimously to recommend that the agency approve Losec for the most serious cases of heartburn after other drugs had been found to be ineffective.
Date: 16 March 1989
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: Farah Inc., a clothing maker based in El Paso that said in August it would consider selling the company, reported after its annual meeting Tuesday that it had received two bids. One offer is for the entire company and the other for one of its subsidiaries. The Salant Corporation, a
Date: 16 March 1989
AP
LEAD: Shareholders of the Hospital Corporation of America approved a $5 billion buyout of the nation's largest hospital management company by an investor group led by the company's top executives. The concern's chairman, Thomas F. Frist Jr., said after the vote that the company would keep most of its hospitals but sell subsidiary properties to help finance the deal.
Date: 16 March 1989
LEAD: Texaco Inc. said it would expand its sales of oil- and gas-producing properties to 3,000, to raise $300 million to $600 million. As part of a restructuring package that brought it out of bankruptcy last spring, the company had said that it would sell 600 properties, and in November it raised the figure to 1,400.
Date: 16 March 1989
Reuters
LEAD: The Sony Corporation said it would begin making laser videodisks in the United States under an agreement with Image Entertainment, a videodisk distributor. Sony, which also makes videodisk players, expects the production of disks to spur increased sales of its players. Videodisks, 12-inch platters read by a beam of light, offer superior quality to videotapes.
Date: 15 March 1989
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The Holly Farms Corporation said it would hold a special stockholders meeting on April 14 to vote on the merger agreement made last year by its board with Conagra Inc. Conagra's offer to acquire the company in a stock swap worth more than $1 billion is subject to the approval of two-thirds of the companies' common stockholders.