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Date: 17 June 1992
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
Two groups of the late Robert Maxwell's companies have filed claims in bankruptcy court against The Daily News, seeking to recover what they assert were more than $210 million in loans and other cash transfers to the newspaper. But the filing is unlikely to disrupt The News's effort to find a buyer. The paper now is entering final negotiations with several prospective buyers.
Date: 17 June 1992
By Rachelle Garbarine
Rachelle Garbarine
IN what is being billed as the largest midtown office lease this year, News America Publishing Inc., the media company owned by Rupert Murdoch, is expanding within the building that has been its home since 1989. The company has leased 230,000 square feet, doubling its current space. The building is 1211 Avenue of the Americas, between 47th and 48th Streets, the former Celanese Building. It was bought by the JMB Realty Corporation of Chicago from a Dutch pension fund in 1988.
Date: 18 June 1992
By Steven A. Holmes
Steven Holmes
In his unending search for elements that wreak havoc on the political system, Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire, seems to have discovered another villain: other people's money. Mr. Perot's undeclared bid for the Presidency has been fueled in part by widespread public disgust with the influence wielded by corporate and labor political action committees that underwrite so many election campaigns, particularly at the Congressional level. By promising to spend $100 million or more of his own money on his campaign, Mr. Perot holds himself out as the one candidate who will not have to genuflect before the altar of special moneyed interests.
Date: 17 June 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Arianespace, the European satellite-launching group, said it had a backlog of 33 satellite launchings to be done, with a total worth of $2.8 billion. Officials of Arianespace, a joint venture of 55 European aerospace companies from 12 countries, said it had obtained 101 launching contracts since 1980, worth about $7 billion. The officials, speaking at an international air show in Berlin, said 46 contracts were for European satellites, 22 for American satellites and 33 for countries including Japan, Canada, Brazil, India and Saudi Arabia.
Date: 17 June 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Mexico has issued details of a long-awaited restructuring of its state-owned oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, known as Pemex. The plan, released late Monday night, is expected to be sent by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari to Congress for approval as early as this week.
Date: 18 June 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Philips N.V., the Dutch electronics concern, was named in a class-action lawsuit yesterday, just hours after the company said its 1992 operating profit was unlikely to match the $566 million earned in 1991. The lawsuit, filed by Max Fecht, contends that executives and directors of Philips, Europe's largest consumer electronics company, misled investors into thinking the company's prospects were improving.
Date: 18 June 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
H & R Block Inc. said its 1992 fiscal year net income rose to a record $162.3 million, or $1.49 a share, from $140.1 million, or $1.31 a share, a year ago. Revenue rose to $1.37 billion, from $1.19 billion in 1991. The tax-preparation company said Monday that it had raised its quarterly dividend to 25 cents a share from 22 cents. The new dividend rate is payable on Oct. 1 to shareholders of record as of Sept. 10.
Date: 17 June 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The General Dynamics Corporation said it would combine its flight research operations in San Diego with similar operations in Fort Worth. It said the move was intended to streamline research in hypersonics, which is flight at speeds as much as four times the speed of sound. The company has been involved in the development of the National Aero-Space Plane, a program begun six years ago. Joe Stout, a spokesman, said the company hoped the technology would evolve into a "really significant operation, maybe in a decade or so."
Date: 17 June 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Nabisco Foods Group will expand in Mexico by exchanging its almost one-third interest in a joint venture with Pepsico Foods International for five of the venture's consumer food and pet food companies. The agreement calls for Nabisco to receive the pasta, confectionery, dry dessert mix, nuts and pet food businesses of Grupo Gamesa, plus an undisclosed amount of cash.
Date: 17 June 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
York International signed an agreement to build a manufacturing plant for milk refrigeration units in Russia to be worth $750 million in five years. The Commerce Department said in Washington that the refrigeration units would eliminate 80 percent of the milk spoilage in Russia annually, saving the country $900 million each year in hard currency spent on dairy imports. About 50 percent of the milk produced in Russia each year is spoiled, the department said. The Export-Import Bank offered provisional, initial financing of $50 million for the project.