NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 07 May 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL 2-6, 28 Poland's bishops denounced the Government's use of force to end the strike at a major steel complex near Cracow. The decision to use force indicated divisions in the Polish Communist leadership. Page 1 Lech Walesa spoke to young strikers at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk as riot police massed outside the gates.
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Albany Notes; Cuomo's Private Moments Go Public, Sort Of
Date: 08 May 1988
By Elizabeth Kolbert, Special To the New York Times
Elizabeth Kolbert
LEAD: Without ''conceding a legal obligation to do so,'' the Cuomo administration today made public the Governor's ''private'' schedules for the last five years after several news organizations requested them under the state's Freedom of Information law. There was only one catch. Everything private was missing.
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Tony O'Reilly Astride Two Worlds; In Ireland, Publisher and Prospector
Date: 08 May 1988
By Steve Lohr
Steve Lohr
LEAD: AT dusk, Anthony O'Reilly is strolling the grounds of his 500-acre estate, Castlemartin, surveying with satisfaction his breeding cattle, his race horses and his 18thcentury 28-room mansion house.
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CORRECTION
Date: 07 May 1988
LEAD: A Media Business article in Business Day on Thursday about New York City's tabloid newspapers misstated New York Newsday's circulation in Brooklyn and Manhattan. It is about 37,000 in each borough.
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Saatchi Expansion
Date: 07 May 1988
Reuters
LEAD: The British-based Saatchi & Saatchi Company, the world's largest advertising agency, said it had agreed to aquire the Los Angeles-based Corporate Planners and Coordinators Inc., an estate consulting concern. The purchase was the latest in a series of acquisitions by Saatchi in a drive to diversify beyond advertising and build up a global presence.
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Battling Rain In the Military
Date: 08 May 1988
LEAD: AFTER wrestling for two decades with a weighty problem - Should men in uniform be allowed to use umbrellas in the rain? - the Navy decided last November: Why not?
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Murray Rejects Electrolux Bid
Date: 07 May 1988
LEAD: The Murray Ohio Manufacturing Company, which makes bicycles and lawn mowers, yesterday rejected a $182 million takeover bid from Electrolux A.B. of Sweden. The directors of the Brentwood, Tenn., company called the $48-a-share offer inadequate and filed a suit seeking to bar Electrolux from taking any further action to acquire Murray.
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Prudential Sues Over Asbestos
Date: 07 May 1988
LEAD: The Prudential Insurance Company of America said it had sued the First Republicbank Corporation of Dallas for $135 million for the cost of removing asbestos from a building in Dallas that First Republicbank sold to Prudential. In its suit, filed in Federal court in Dallas, Prudential said that the company had known about the asbestos problem in the Renaissance Tower but withheld the information.
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Suchard Increases Stake in Rowntree
Date: 07 May 1988
AP
LEAD: Jacobs Suchard S.A., a Swiss food and confectionery maker, raised its stake in the British confectioner Rowntree P.L.C. to 29.9 percent, the maximum allowed under British law short of a full takeover bid. Jacobs Suchard has paid an estimated $:450 million (about $841 million) for the Rowntree shares, which it has acquired gradually since getting a 14.9 percent stake on April 13.
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