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27th of April 1993 News
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Press Club Honors John Chancellor
Date: 28 April 1993
John Chancellor, the longtime NBC News anchor and commentator, who is retiring this year, was honored yesterday for "distinguished and exemplary service" by the Overseas Press Club of America. The award, which cited Mr. Chancellor's "long-term dedication to presenting the news without the theatrical embellishments used to turn the news into entertainment," was one of 18 given by the club, which each year honors foreign reporting by print and broadcast journalists.
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INSIDE
Date: 28 April 1993
New Clinton Drug Official Lee P. Brown, the former Police Commissioner of New York City, has been chosen to be the Clinton Administration's senior official for drug policy, officials said. Page A15. China and Taiwan Hold Talks Delegates from China and Taiwan met in Singapore for their first high-level talks, professing a desire for cordiality and cooperation. Page A8. Middle East Talks Resume After a change in American administrations and violence in Israel and its occupied territories, the Middle East peace talks resumed. Page A3.
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Investigation Into Press Leaks Begins in Trade Center Blast
Date: 27 April 1993
By Robert D. McFadden
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Federal officials began an inquiry yesterday to identify the unnamed law-enforcement officials who provided information for an article in The New York Times on the World Trade Center bombing in the face of a Federal judge's order barring prosecutors and the defense from discussing the case with news organizations. Several law-enforcement officials were questioned, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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McEwen Is Winner of Red Smith Award
Date: 28 April 1993
TOM McEWEN, sports editor of The Tampa Tribune for 29 years, yesterday was named the 1993 winner of The Associated Press Sports Editors' Red Smith Award for lifetime achievement. McEwen, 70, is the only journalist in the Florida Sports Hall of Fame and has been named the state's Sportswriter of the Year 19 times. He was The Tribune's sports editor from 1962-1991 and still writes his column, The Morning After, three times a week as a special correspondent.
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POTENTIAL BIDDERS FOR PRUDENTIAL ENERGY PARTNERSHIPS
Date: 28 April 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Prudential Securities Inc.'s soured energy partnerships have attracted two Texas oil and gas companies as potential bidders -- the Parker & Parsley Petroleum Company and Torch Energy Advisers. Prudential also recommended yesterday that investors reject a bid from George Kaiser, a Tulsa, Okla., oilman who raised his offer for 30 of the 35 partnerships to $283 million from $159 million. Prudential faces fraud claims from 137,000 investors.
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BRITISH AIRWAYS TO ADD CONVERTIBLE STOCK OF USAIR
Date: 27 April 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
British Airways P.L.C. said yesterday that it was exercising rights to buy $86.3 million of USAir Group Inc.'s series T convertible preferred stock to preserve its 24.6 percent stake in the United States airline. In a statement, British Airways said the move was in response to USAir's proposals earlier this month to sell 10 million new common shares. The rights to purchase the convertible shares are part of the Jan. 21 alliance between the two airlines, when the British airline paid $300 million to buy 19.9 percent of USAir's voting stock. The series T stock is convertible into 3.27 million common shares at a rate of $26.40 a share.
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IVAX TO ACQUIRE TWO PLANTS FROM ELF ATOCHEM
Date: 27 April 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Ivax Corporation, based in Miami, said yesterday that it had signed an agreement with Elf Atochem North America Inc. to acquire two manufacturing plants and other assets for $58 million in cash and stock. Ivax's specialty chemicals unit, Ivax Industries, will absorb the assets and become a separate public company, Ivax said.
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E. M. WARBURG PINCUS AFFILIATE TO BUY STAKE IN UNIVA
Date: 28 April 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
E. M. Warburg Pincus & Company said yesterday that its Warburg Pincus Investors L.P. affiliate had entered into an agreement to acquire Unigesco Inc.'s 26 percent stake in Univa Inc., a Montreal-based food distributor and retailer. Unigesco, a food, hardware and renovation products distributor, said it would sell its interest in Univa for about 198 million Canadian dollars (about $154 million American). Warburg would pay 8.85 Canadian dollars a share for Unigesco's 22.4 million shares.
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MARTIN MARIETTA PAYS $970,000 TO SETTLE C-130 CLAIM
Date: 28 April 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Martin Marietta Corporation paid the United States $970,000 to settle a claim involving a contract for the C-130 military cargo aircraft, the Justice Department said yesterday. The company's simulation and control systems department in Daytona, Fla., failed to disclose that some maintenance personnel for C-130 flight simulators at two Air Force bases in Texas had already been trained. As a result, the government spent more on training than necessary, the department said.
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TEN ALLSTATE AGENTS SUE SEARS OVER EXPENSE PAYMENTS
Date: 28 April 1993
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sears, Roebuck & Company has been sued by agents of its Allstate Insurance Company unit, who are demanding that Sears pay hundreds of millions of dollars in operating expenses. Ten agents said Sears had recruited them with promises that the company would pay for office rent, claims processing, computers and other operating expenses. Instead, Sears passed the bills to the agents, who were primarily former staff members recruited as outside agents, the suit said. It was filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan last week. The agents are seeking class-action status for 15,000 others.
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