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Date: 21 March 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-12 In elections in El Salvador, the ruling Christian Democratic Party appeared to have suffered a major defeat, according to Christian Democratic Party officials, diplomatic observers and other unofficial party observers. Page A1
Date: 22 March 1988
LEAD: International A3-15 After the Salvadoran elections, leaders of the victorious right-wing party said that they would seek compromise with President Jose Napoleon Duarte. But diplomats said they were pessimistic about the prospects for cooperation. Page A1 Sandinistas and contras meeting in Nicaragua agreed that they would stop fighting during the talks.
Date: 22 March 1988
Reuters
LEAD: The Federal Trade Commission has ruled that the B. F. Goodrich Company's acquisition of the Diamond Shamrock Plastics Corporation in 1981 breached antitrust rules and ordered Goodrich to sell a chemical plant in La Porte, Tex. The plant manufactures vinyl chloride monomer, which is used to produce such plastic goods as irrigation pipes and phonograph records.
Date: 22 March 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The Doskocil Companies has purchased an 8.57 percent stake in the Wilson Foods Corporation. Doskocil, based in South Hutchinson, Kan., said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it might offer to acquire the Oklahoma City-based meat products concern, which has 10.1 million shares outstanding.
Date: 21 March 1988
AP
LEAD: Robert Goralski, a longtime correspondent for NBC News, died of cancer Friday at his home in McLean, Va. He was 60 years old.
Date: 22 March 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The Ford Motor Company will begin exporting its Lincoln Continental and Mercury Sable models to South Korea this spring, the company said. A Ford spokeswoman, Pam Kueber, said the initial volumes would be small, in part because South Korea's import duties would raise the cars' retail prices to about three times those in America, which are about about $28,000 for the Continental and $15,000 for the Sable.
Date: 22 March 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: After reviewing appraisals of the operations of Resorts International Inc., the entertainer Merv Griffin said today that he was considering raising his $35-a-share bid for the Atlantic City casino operator - an offer already substantially higher than a $22-share bid from the New York developer Donald J.
Date: 22 March 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: A new judge assigned to the computer chip copyright dispute between the Intel Corporation and the NEC Corporation denied motions for summary judgments from both sides. Judge William P. Gray of the Federal District Court in Los Angeles inherited the case after Judge William A. Ingram of the District Court in San Jose disqualified himself in December and nullified a decision he had made.
Date: 22 March 1988
Reuters
LEAD: A group led by Jewelcor Inc.'s president, Seymour Holtzman, has agreed to work with First Boston LBO Inc., a unit of the First Boston Corporation, on a plan to acquire Jewelcor. The group led by Mr. Holtzman, which holds or has options to buy 26.3 percent of Jewelcor's common stock, disclosed the agreement in a Securities and Exchange
Date: 22 March 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: To obtain support for its takeover offer, Batus Inc. has begun to solicit proxies from the shareholders of the Farmers Group Inc. to submit them at the company's annual meeting on May 20. Farmers, a Los Angeles-based insurance company, has spurned a $4.4 billion tender offer from Batus. The company has held discussions with other unspecified suitors and has outlined other possible defensive moves to remain independent.
Date: 22 March 1988
LEAD: Shares of American Standard Inc. rose 87.5 cents in heavy trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday to close at $76.75, after Kelso & Company said that it might increase its $78-a-share agreement to acquire the company. But Kelso, a Manhattan investment firm, said that it would not decide before March 31, the day before an offer of $77 a share from the Black & Decker Corporation is due to expire.
Date: 22 March 1988
LEAD: Government employees of the city of Pittsburgh and of the state of Pennsylvania may be barred from using the credit cards of the American Express Company on official business to protest the $1.58 billion hostile takeover bid for the Pittburgh-based Koppers Company by Beazer P.L.C., the British construction company.