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Date: 23 August 1989
LEAD: NBC News announced yesterday that Deborah Norville will replace John Palmer as news anchor of the ''Today'' show, beginning Sept. 5. The change, said Michael G. Gartner, the president of NBC News, is one of several the division plans to make to increase news coverage on the morning program.
Date: 23 August 1989
LEAD: The Justice Department, the Iran-contra special prosecutor and a lawyer for a former high C.I.A. official face an important hearing today before the Federal Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. They will argue over Attorney General Dick Thornburgh's right to intervene in the special prosecutor's case against Joe Fernandez, the former agency station chief in Costa Rica, charged with lying to investigators of the scandal.
Date: 22 August 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A2-13 Colombia seized 134 aircraft suspected of belonging to drug traffickers and captured a top figure in the Medellin drug cartel, police officials said. Page A1
Date: 23 August 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-11 Polish Communists backed off from threats not to share responsibility in a new coalition Government after Soviet President Gorbachev held a phone conversation with the party leader. Page A1
Date: 22 August 1989
Reuters
LEAD: Northwest Airlines' pilots have ratified a tentative contract with the airline. The vote ratification ends two-and-a-half years of bargaining by the airline company, which is being taken private by Wings Holdings and the Air Line Pilots Association.
Date: 22 August 1989
LEAD: The Pratt & Whitney Aircraft subsidiary of United Technologies said that Northwest Airlines had ordered 12 of its PW-4000 jet engines worth $162 million for six new Airbus Industrie A330's. Last February, Northwest became the first American carrier to buy A330's when it ordered 10 of the aircraft, also powered by PW-4000 engines.
Date: 22 August 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: An investment group led by Interstate Properties Inc., a New Jersey development concern, and one of its general partners, Russell B. Wright Jr., has acquired a 6.1 percent stake in Cruise America Inc. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Mr. Wright said he ''has had discussions with the management of the company concerning its prospects and plans to continue such discussions.
Date: 22 August 1989
Reuters
LEAD: Hoesch A.G., the steel and engineering company, said it had taken over Schroff G.m.b.H,, a privately owned West German electronics company. Terms were not disclosed. A Hoesch statement said Schroff specializes in making electronic instruments for the engineering industry. Founded in 1960, the company employs around 1,200 and has third-party sales of about $111.9 million.
Date: 22 August 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: The Dean Foods Company, the second-largest dairy company in the country, has agreed to acquire a pickle maker for about $29 million in stock. Dean Foods, based in Franklin Park, Ill., said it would exchange 865,000 shares of its stock for all the shares of Charles F. Cates & Sons Inc., a privately held pickle processor based in Faison, N.C.
Date: 22 August 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: MAI Basic Four Inc. today reported a loss of $46.2 million, citing its failed attempt to buy Prime Computer Inc.