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17th of August 1991 News
Вести како су се појавиле на насловној страни Њујорк тајмса на 17. август 1991.
Observer; Strange People Shapes
Date: 17 August 1991
By Russell Baker
Russell Baker
Mrs. J. T. writes that columns in this space have been "extremely grumpy" of late, asks if I have been taking steroids and cautions that these bodybuilding chemicals may have "alarming side effects." I can't guess what makes this letter-writing harridan think I'm grumpy. A grumpy person would tell her to mind her own business and shut up, which I am not going to do, because I'm not grumpy, and if she weren't a woman I'd kick her right in the shins for saying I am.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 18 August 1991
International 3-15 The lead in the hostage negotiations has been taken by the Iranian government, which is using secret intermediaries and shuttle diplomacy to bargain for the release of the 10 remaining Western hostages. Page 1
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News Summary
Date: 17 August 1991
International 2-4 A confidant of President Gorbachev, Aleksandr Yakovlev, a reform strategist who was estranged from the Soviet leader, quit the Communist Party, warning that reactionaries were planning a coup d'etat. Page 1
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Good News in Jazz, With a Big Caveat
Date: 18 August 1991
By Peter Watrous
Peter Watrous
As a model of how an institution should offer its wares to its city, Lincoln Center's new jazz program could hardly be better. With the schedule announced this month, the ambitious yearlong program will include not only concerts but also films, educational series and lectures. Just as important, the entire octopuslike affair will be spread out across the city. It is hard to overestimate its importance in the next few years. Even nationally, the brute force of a million-dollar first-year budget and a string of 18 concerts, all emanating from an American institution dedicated to the preservation of classical music, has to act as a legitimizing influence.
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Isomedix Stake Is Sold by Tiger
Date: 17 August 1991
By Bloomberg Business News
Bloomberg News
The Tiger Management Corporation, a Boston-based investment company, sold its entire stake in Isomedix Inc., a sterilization medical products company in Whippany, N.J. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the investment company said it sold the shares between April 1 and June 28 at $16.75 to $20.75 a share. Tiger held about a 7.59 percent stake in its last 13-D schedule filed with the S.E.C. last February, according to 13-D Research Inc. Proceeds from the sale were between $127 million and $157 million. The share price of Isomedix fell 37.5 cents today, to $17.50, in over-the-counter trading.
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K Mart Offering Raises $967 Million
Date: 17 August 1991
By Ap
The K Mart Corporation said it had raised $967 million by selling 23 million securities known as depository shares, which become common stock within three years. Each depository share, which sold for $44 apiece, represented the equivalent of a quarter of a share of convertible preferred stock of the big retailer, the company said in a statement.
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Delta and Pan Am Face Europe Study
Date: 17 August 1991
By Ap
The European Community commission announced that it would examine Delta Air Lines Inc.'s proposed purchase of most of Pan American World Airways' routes in Europe. The commission will have a month to decide whether Delta's purchase of some of the struggling airline's routes and equipment falls within its scope to investigate large cross-border deals with an interest to the community. If the deal does fall within its scope and creates serious competition worries in the 12-nation trade bloc, the commission can order an in-depth investigation of up to four months. Delta does not anticipate any difficulties in getting the international route authorities transferred, a spokesman said today. Delta has agreed to pay about $1.3 billion for several Pan Am assets including the Pan Am Shuttle and most of Pan Am's European routes.
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Electronic Data Wins In Offer for SD-Scicon
Date: 17 August 1991
By Ap
The Electronic Data Systems Corporation said today that it had won its hostile bid for control of SD-Scicon P.L.C., a British computer services company. E.D.S., the information technology unit of the General Motors Corporation, said it had either acquired or agreed to acquire a "sufficient total" of SD-Scicon's ordinary shares to take control. The minimum required would be over 50 percent.
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Miss Buckingham to Wed in September
Date: 18 August 1991
Mr. and Mrs. Rob Roy Buckingham of Old Greenwich, Conn., have announced the engagement of their daughter Mallory Alexandra Buckingham to Thomas James Gadzik, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Alexander Gadzik of Storrs, Conn. A September wedding is planned. Miss Buckingham, 26 years old, is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and is enrolled in a master's program in speech pathology at Southern Connecticut State University. Her father, who is retired, was the director of development and strategic planning of The New York Times News Information Services.
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69 Die as Burning Jet Crashes in Eastern India
Date: 17 August 1991
AP
An Indian Airlines jet flying from Calcutta caught fire and plunged into the hilly jungle of remote eastern India today, news reports said. All 69 people aboard were killed, officials said. The crash came a day after the airline received a hijack threat, an airline official said.
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