TV News Crews Guarded
Date: 15 May 1990
LEAD: Many New York television stations, fearing violence against their employees and the loss of equipment, are sending guards with crews covering news in areas where racial tensions are high.
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News Corp. Profit Plunges
Date: 16 May 1990
Reuters
LEAD: The News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch's media empire, reported today that net profit dropped 74 percent, to $93 million for the first nine months of the current fiscal year from $384.8 million in the period a year earlier.
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 15 May 1990
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-15 The moves by two Baltic republics, Latvia and Estonia, toward independence were officially rejected by President Gorbachev. He said the republics lacked any legal basis to leave the Soviet Union. Page A1
If the News Is Bad, Silence the Messenger
Date: 15 May 1990
By Eric N. Berg, Special To the New York Times
Eric Berg
LEAD: Sy Jacobs, a Wall Street analyst, knew that the executives at Household International Inc. would not be pleased after he advised clients in February to sell the company's stock. What he did not expect was the silent treatment.
Dolls That Carried the News of Fashion
Date: 16 May 1990
By Alan Riding, Special To the New York Times
Alan Riding
LEAD: It was March 1945, the war against Germany dragged on and everything was in short supply. But with France already liberated, Paris found an ingenious way of proclaiming that it was still the world capital of fashion.
Olivetti Venture
Date: 15 May 1990
Reuters
LEAD: The Italian computer maker Ing. C. Olivetti & C. S.p.A. formed a joint venture with the Yugoslav Energoprojekt Holding Corporation, an engineering and data processing company, to sell Olivetti systems and products in Yugoslavia. Olivetti said its Olivetti System and Networks subsidiary would hold 50 percent of the new venture, to be called Olivetti Energodata, while Energoprojekt would hold a 46 percent stake.
Motorola Chip
Date: 15 May 1990
LEAD: Motorola Inc. introduced a specialized processing chip that the company said was optimized for a new class of multimedia computing applications that combine graphics and sound. The 96002 is a floating-point mathematical co-processor that approaches supercomputer speeds on certain operations and will permit the development of desktop work stations that have full-motion video and stereo digital sound capabilities.
Trusthouse-Bass
Date: 16 May 1990
Reuters
LEAD: Trusthouse Forte P.L.C. said it had bought the Crest hotel chain in Britain from Bass P.L.C. for $:300 million, or more than $501 million, in cash. Trusthouse said the deal involved 43 hotels in Britain. Profits of the assets being acquired were $:29.9 million in the year that ended on Sept. 30, 1989.
Nintendo Research
Date: 16 May 1990
Reuters
LEAD: Nintendo of America Inc. said its parent company in Japan would establish a $3 million fund at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Laboratory for research into how children learn while they play. The world's leading maker of video games said the Nintendo Fund would support the work of Seymour Papert, who maintains that traditional teaching methods have become increasingly out of touch with children.