NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 11 January 1989
LEAD: International A2-10
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Date: 12 January 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A2-15 More Russians can come to the U.S., President Reagan has decided. This 39 percent increase will be offset by reducing the number of places reserved for Southeast Asian refugees. Page A1
Date: 11 January 1989
By Marvine Howe
Marvine Howe
LEAD: For the second year in a row, Dan Rather has chosen to honor colleagues at CBS News by making gifts in their names to the Neediest Cases Fund.
Date: 11 January 1989
LEAD: Mikhail Gorbachev, a Pisces, has the stars pulling for him, according to the first horoscope published in a Soviet Communist newspaper. The signs promise a harmony between earth and sky, the astrologer Eremei Parnov writes in Moskovskaya Pravda. Thus a whole universe opens for Kremlinologists.
Date: 12 January 1989
By Steve Lohr, Special To the New York Times
Steve Lohr
LEAD: For the last week a headline-grabbing confrontation has been unfolding in a London court that pits French gastronomy against British bureaucracy.
Date: 12 January 1989
AP
LEAD: Peter R. Fink, who resigned as president and chief executive of the R. P. Scherer Corporation in November after losing a proxy fight against his estranged wife and other heirs of the company founder who want to sell, said Tuesday that he had started his own investment company. The Quantum Corporation, of which Mr.
Date: 12 January 1989
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The Cetus Corporation and Hoffman-La Roche Inc. said they had agreed to collaborate on the development and commercialization of in-vitro human diagnostic products based on Cetus's Geneamp polymerase chain reaction technology.
Date: 12 January 1989
By Philip E. Ross, Special To the New York Times
Philip Ross
LEAD: The Ford Motor Company extended its buyer-incentive programs today and offered some through low-rate financing and cash rebates.
Date: 12 January 1989
Reuters
LEAD: The Chrysler Corporation is considering raising its capital spending goal for the next five years to $14.1 billion to pay for new and redesigned products, the trade publication Metalworking News said today. Chrysler officials were not immediately available for comment on the report.
Date: 11 January 1989
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: Diasonics Inc. has reached a settlement with its former chairman, Albert S. Waxman, under which Mr. Waxman agreed to end his battle to seek control of the Milpitas, Calif., medical equipment manufacturer. Mr. Waxman and his partner, the New York financial services concern Integrated Resources Inc., had offered to buy