NEWS SUMMARY;
Date: 19 April 1985
FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1985 International
Ingus Bankevics (born 18 April 1985) is a Latvian professional basketball player, who last played the shooting guard position for the English club Manchester Giants. He has previously played for Latvian national team Throughout his playing career.
In 2008, he won the Baltic Basketball League three-point shooting contest. In February 2011, he broke his contract with BK Ventspils. After several seasons in Latvian Basketball League (LBL) clubs, he moved abroad, initially playing in France and Lithuania, and later in the United Kingdom, where he represented Manchester Giants for many seasons.
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Date: 19 April 1985
By Michael Blumstein
Michael Blumstein
John C. Whitehead, who was named yesterday to the No. 2 post in the State Department, will step into a major foreign policy post with much more experience in the business world than international affairs. But his background is consistent with the prior business orientation of Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Mr. Whitehead, who is 63 years old, is to succeed Kenneth W. Dam as Deputy Secretary of State. If confirmed by the Senate, he would move to Washington after spending his entire working life at Goldman, Sachs & Company, a leading Wall Street investment bank that sells securities and arranges mergers for some of the country's biggest corporations.
Date: 18 April 1985
By Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
For whatever reason, it is a fact of magazine publishing life that advertisers place larger annual schedules in weekly magazines than they do in monthlies.
Date: 18 April 1985
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Date: 19 April 1985
By Richard W. Stevenson
Richard Stevenson
Ted Turner's hostile takeover bid for CBS Inc. has placed two of the nation's most prominent television news organizations in the unusual and potentially awkward position of having to turn their cameras on themselves.
Date: 18 April 1985
By James F. Clarity and Warren Weaver Jr
James Clarity
Forty years ago today the war
Date: 18 April 1985
By Steven Greenhouse
Steven Greenhouse
Amid continuing rumors about a possible takeover attempt, Thomas H. Wyman, the chairman and chief executive of CBS Inc., today reasserted his company's intention to remain independent.
Date: 18 April 1985
UPI
Upi
Members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors have elected Robert P. Clark president for 1985-86. He is vice president for news for Harte- Hanks Newspapers in San Antonio, Tex. Three other officers were also elected at the editors' meeting in Washington last week: Michael G. Gartner, editorial chairman of The Des Moines Register, vice president; Katherine Fanning, editor of The Christian Science Monitor, secretary, and Edward R. Cony, vice president for news of The Wall Street Journal, treasurer.
Date: 19 April 1985
Reuters
A national official of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's Congress Party has been shot and wounded in Punjab State, Press Trust of India, a news agency, reported today.