NEWS SUMMARY: THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1987
Date: 14 May 1987
LEAD: International A3-15
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Date: 15 May 1987
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-13 A former aide carried cash to rebels in Nicaragua from Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North's White House safe, Congressional investigators were told. Page A1 News analysis: Investigators never pinned down Robert C. McFarlane in four days of questioning on what he told President Reagan about the White House staff's activities on behalf of the Nicaraguan rebels.
Date: 15 May 1987
Reuters
LEAD: The United Technologies Corporation said it had received an Australian Army order worth more than $200 million for an additional 25 S-70A-9 Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters. The company had previously received orders for 30 of the helicopters from the Australian Army and Navy. It said the first delivery of the 55 helicopters would take place in October 1987.
Date: 15 May 1987
Reuters, Special to the New York Times
LEAD: Westland, the British helicopter company that an American-led consortium saved from bankruptcy last year, will cut 1,155 jobs at its Yeovil factory in the west of England, a company spokesman said. ''We had to make capacity reductions in view of the market situation of helicopter manufacturing capacity,'' he said.
Date: 15 May 1987
By Robert J. Cole
Robert Cole
LEAD: After 20 years as head of one of Wall Street's most prominent investment banking houses, Ralph D. DeNunzio is stepping down as chief executive of the Kidder, Peabody Group Inc. His resignation is part of a management shake-up announced yesterday as the General Electric Company moved to assert control over the firm it bought last year.
Date: 15 May 1987
AP
LEAD: MCA Inc. has decided against selling 15 percent of its music-entertaiment gourp to the public, reversing last month's announcement that it might do so.
Date: 15 May 1987
By Peter H. Frank, Special To the New York Times
Peter Frank
LEAD: First Interstate Bancorp, the Los Angeles-based holding company that is a dominant force in interstate banking, said today that it was involved in negotiations with Allied Bancshares of Houston about a merger.
Date: 15 May 1987
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The California Public Utilities Commission's Public Staff division, a consumer-advocacy unit, recommended today that the Pacific Gas and Electric Company be allowed to recover from rate payers only $1.15 billion of the $5.52 billion cost of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. The commission can accept all, part or none of the division's recommendation in its final determination, which is not expected for at least one year.
Date: 15 May 1987
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The General Electric Company said it had been selected by the Tokyo Electric Power Company to supply the nuclear boiler systems, initial nuclear fuel and turbine-generators for two new nuclear power stations. Tokyo Electric estimated the cost of the stations, which would be built on the Sea of Japan northwest of Tokyo, at 692 billion yen, or nearly $5 billion at current exchange rates.
Date: 14 May 1987
Reuters
LEAD: Bayer A.G. has agreed to sell its American subsidiary, the Helena Chemical Company, to an international trading company. The sale is conditional on the approval of American authorities and the companies' boards. Hermann Strenger, Bayer's chairman of the managing board, gave no further details of the buyer or the selling price.