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12th of October 1991 News
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Americans Riveted By Lesson in Civics
Date: 12 October 1991
By Jane Gross
Jane Gross
In cities and towns far and wide, Americans took time out from their workaday lives yesterday to tune into an extraordinary civics lesson: the riveting collision before the Senate Judiciary Committee between Judge Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court nominee, and Anita F. Hill, the Oklahoma law professor who said she was sexually harassed by him. For a nearly a week now, since the charges became public, they have been topic No. 1 in offices and universities, in restaurants and on street corners, with many women celebrating the sudden public discussion of a heretofore private subject and many men wondering about their own conduct, present, past and future.
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News Summary
Date: 13 October 1991
International 3-20 A debate over the Saudi military -- particularly whether it should include an offensive army as well as a sophisticated air defense system -- is deadlocking negotiations between the United States and Saudi Arabia on a new security alliance. Page 1
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Date: 12 October 1991
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Good News for Thomas
Date: 13 October 1991
Exploratory surgery found no damage to the right shoulder of Chicago White Sox first baseman FRANK THOMAS. Dr. FRANK JOBE, who performed arthroscopic surgery on Thomas's shoulder Friday morning in Los Angeles, found some looseness in the joint, but no tears or other evidence of damage. Thomas will start an off-season strengthening program for the shoulder and should be fine by spring training, the White Sox trainer, HERM SCHNEIDER, said. (AP)
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Midway Stock Halt
Date: 12 October 1991
By Bloomberg Business News
Bloomberg News
Trading in Midway Airlines common shares and series D cumulative convertible exchangeable preferred shares was suspended by the New York Stock Exchange, effective immediately, the exchange said yesterday. The exchange said it was applying to the S.E.C. to delist both issues. The shares were suspended, the Big Board said, because of Midway's announcement that a Federal bankruptcy court had approved the acquisition of Midway's assets by Northwest Airlines for $170 million.
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Kerkorian Buys Chrysler Shares
Date: 12 October 1991
By Bloomberg Business News
Bloomberg News
Kirk Kerkorian, the California investor, confirmed his purchase of six million Chrysler Corporation common shares. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr. Kerkorian and the Tracinda Corporation, his investment company, said they bought the shares on Oct. 9 at $10.125 each. Mr. Kerkorian paid for the shares in cash in Chrysler's new underwritten public offering, which was priced Oct. 1 at $10.125 a share. The investor now holds 28 million common shares, or a 9.8 percent stake, about the same as what he had before Chrysler's recent offering of 35 million common shares.
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TV Coverage of Thomas Hearings
Date: 12 October 1991
The Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearings on Judge Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court will begin at 10 A.M. today. The Public Broadcasting Service will show the hearings with no interruptions for commercials. The Courtroom Television Network will also have complete live coverage, with commercials only during breaks in testimony.
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Fire Reported in Generator Area At the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant
Date: 12 October 1991
By Nick Ravo
Nick Ravo
A fire broke out yesterday in an electrical generator at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Ukraine, where a 1986 explosion caused a nuclear catastrophe, news reports said. Tanya Demidenko, the wife of a leader of the Ukrainian Green World Party, said by telephone that Kiev television reported that an electrical cable caught fire in a building housing a turbine at about 6 P.M. Ukrainian time.
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3 Black Church Groups to House AIDS Patients
Date: 13 October 1991
By Mireya Navarro
Mireya Navarro
Three black church groups representing 150 congregations in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan will provide housing for people with AIDS under New York City contracts in the first organized effort by black churches to deliver AIDS-related services, officials announced on Friday. The involvement of black churches in the fight against AIDS has been gradual and hampered by theological difficulties in addressing an epidemic that affects mostly homosexuals and intravenous drug users. But black ministers say more and more churches are being moved to action by the pervasiveness of AIDS in the black community. The three groups -- Southeast Queens Clergy for Community Empowerment, Harlem Churches for Community Improvement and the Association of Brooklyn Clergy for Community Development -- will each provide 20 apartments and support services like substance abuse counseling for homeless families and single people infected with the AIDS virus. The 22-month contracts, each for $847,000, were announced at a news conference by Mayor David N. Dinkins at City Hall. The 60 units, which are expected to be opened within six months, will join 430 already provided by other social service groups at sites scattered around the city. Blacks account for 35 percent of the 33,580 AIDS cases reported in New York City through June, even though they make up only 25 percent of the population. 'Devastated by This Disease' "AIDS is a medical problem that needs to be treated with compassion," said the Rev. Preston R. Washington, president of the Harlem group. "We have counseled so many families in our communities that have been devastated by this disease that we feel it's our responsibility to reach out and support these families."
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Victor L. Ridder Jr., 49, and Wife, Mary Ridder, 48, Active Catholics
Date: 13 October 1991
By Bruce Lambert
Bruce Lambert
Victor L. Ridder Jr., president of a century-old publishing company for Roman Catholics in the New York region, and his wife, Mary Jane, died in an automobile accident last Sunday. Mr. Ridder, 49 years old, and Mrs. Ridder, 48, lived in New Rochelle, N.Y. They were killed in a collision when another car crossed over the median divider on a highway near Baltimore, relatives said. The couple was returning from Washington.
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