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Date: 11 December 1989
By Jeremy Gerard
Jeremy Gerard
LEAD: Rupert Murdoch may be an ardent capitalist, but apparently that has not tempered his eagerness to use perestroika to extend the reach of his media properties.
Date: 12 December 1989
AP
LEAD: Three Hungarian journalists who went to Rumania last week to meet a dissident clergyman were detained by the police, expelled from the country and banned from re-entering for five years, it was reported today. The Rumanian police also confiscated their film and video cassettes. Szilvia Izso, a reporter for Nepszabadsag, the official newspaper of the ruling Socialist Party, and two other reporters of a regional newspaper went to Rumania on Thursday to interview the Rev.
Date: 11 December 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-15 The first Czechoslovak government in 41 years without a Communist majority was sworn in by President Gustav Husak, the Communist hard-liner, who resigned immediately afterward. Page A1
Date: 12 December 1989
LEAD: West German leader Helmut Kohl softened a vital element of his vision of German reunification. Taking account of foreign concerns, he eased away from his notion of an early ''confederation'' of the two German states. Page A1 Bonn's Social Democrats try to upstage Kohl on reunification
Date: 12 December 1989
AP
LEAD: The Ford Motor Company has acquired a controlling interest in Jaguar P.L.C. as part of its $2.5 billion takeover of the British luxury car maker. Ford, the No. 2 United States auto maker, said that by the close of business Friday, it had acquired 77.4 percent of the outstanding shares of Jaguar stock, including the 13 percent it owned before Nov.
Date: 12 December 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: American Medical International Inc. said it intends to sell 12 acute-care and psychiatric hospitals in the United States as part of its plan to sell assets in the wake of a change of ownership. The hospitals to be sold have nearly 1,800 beds. ''The proposed divestitures are integral to our plan to concentrate management and financial resources on the devlopment of a small group of acure-care hospitals,'' said Harry J.
Date: 12 December 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: An affiliate of an Australian airline that is partly owned by the publisher Rupert Murdoch has purchased $15.6 million worth of debentures in America West Airlines, maintaining its 19.1 percent stake in the regional carrier based in Tempe, Ariz. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing,the Australian group said it had bought the debentures, which are convertible into 1.2 million America West shares.
Date: 12 December 1989
LEAD: Cray Research Inc.'s chairman, John A. Rollwagen, said the company would expand its product line, introducing a lower-price version of its Y-MP supercomputer sometime in the first half of 1990. The new computer will be priced close to $2 million. The least expensive Cray now begins at about $5 million.
Date: 12 December 1989
Reuters
LEAD: A group of shareholders of the Chevron Corporation sued the company in Delaware chancery court to block part of a new ''poison pill'' plan aimed at thwarting a hostile takeover. The stockholder suit, court documents said, seeks to block an amendment to Chevron's shareholder rights plan that lowers to 10 percent, from 20 percent, the amount of stock held by a third party needed to begin anti-takeover provisions.
Date: 12 December 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: A British investment group reported that it had acquired a 5.1 percent stake in the MDT Corporation. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the British group said it had purchased the MDT shares for investment purposes. The investment group is led by Britannia Arrow Holdings P.L.C., a publicly traded