CBS NEWS CHIEF GIVES PLAN FOR CUTS
Date: 05 March 1987
By Peter J. Boyer
Peter Boyer
LEAD: The president of CBS News yesterday gave the company's chief executive a plan to restructure CBS News drastically, imposing budget cuts of more than $30 million and eliminating as many as 200 jobs in the news division, officials at the network said.
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NEWS SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1987
Date: 04 March 1987
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-11, A14-15 A proposed arms treaty on medium-range arms will be presented by United States negotiators in Geneva today, President Reagan announced, apparently in an effort to show he is taking an active role in foreign affairs. Page A1
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NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1987
Date: 05 March 1987
LEAD: International A3-11
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President to Address The Nation Tonight
Date: 04 March 1987
LEAD: President Reagan's address to the nation will be broadcast tonight at 9 on the ABC, CBS and NBC television networks and on Cable News Network. ABC, NBC and CNN will provide analyses immediately after the President's speech; CBS will offer an analysis at midnight.
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MISSING THE IRAN ARMS STORY: DID THE PRESS FAIL?
Date: 04 March 1987
By Robert Pear, Special To the New York Times
Robert Pear
LEAD: It is now clear that dozens of people - officials at the White House, the State Department, the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency, as well as private arms dealers, businessmen and financiers in Israel and other countries - knew early on about the delivery of American arms to Iran that began in
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REDISCOVERING A PIONEER DANCE CRITIC
Date: 05 March 1987
By Jennifer Dunning
Jennifer Dunning
LEAD: MARY WATKINS, America's first full-time dance critic on a daily newspaper, led a fairly public life. A young ambulance driver in France in 1918, she also served as secretary to Olive Fremstad, the opera star who served as a model for the heroine of Willa Cather's ''Song of the Lark.'' Miss Watkins combined a career as wife and mother with writing on music and theater in national magazines.
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MONTEDISON DEAL
Date: 04 March 1987
Reuters
LEAD: The Italian chemicals giant Montedison S.p.A. has agreed to buy the Spanish drug company Antibioticos for about $450 million, marking the largest private takeover ever in Spain, according to a spokesman for Antibioticos, which has 9 percent of the Spanish drugs market. Government approval is expected within 30 days.
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Transamerica Unit
Date: 04 March 1987
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company, the largest subsidiary of the Transamerica Corporation, said that it had agreed to sell its affiliate the Occidental Life Insurance Company of Australia to Pratt & Company Financial Services of Melbourne, for about $7O million.
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CHRYSLER PLANT
Date: 05 March 1987
Reuters
LEAD: The Chrysler Motors Corporation said it would spend $367 million to modernize its Belvidere, Ill., assembly plant, the company's sixth factory to undergo extensive modernization in recent years. Chrysler said the plant would be closed starting Thursday for a model change-over. About 2,800 of the plant's 3,300 hourly employees will be temporarily laid off for 18 weeks through mid-July.
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