8 juli 1989 was een zaterdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♋. Het was de 188e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George Bush.
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Date: 08 July 1989
LEAD: International 2-4, 24 The Boeing Company can sell China four commercial jetliners, the State Department said, granting a waiver of the sanctions announced by President Bush last month. Page 1 The need to maintain ties with China was stressed by officials of Southeast Asia in a meeting with Secretary Baker, who reaffirmed the U.S.
Date: 08 July 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: Edward F. Heil, a business executive from Deer Park, Ill., has acquired 6.32 percent of the Western Union Corporation, the troubled telex operator based in Upper Saddle River, N.J. Mr. Heil, president of the American Environmental Construction Company, said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that he had purchased 2.66 million Western Union shares - at prices ranging from $1.50 to $2.57 each, between May 17 and June 27 - for investment purposes only.
Date: 08 July 1989
LEAD: The B. Manischewitz Company, a maker of kosher foods based in Jersey City, said it had accepted an acquisition offer from Levine, Tessler, Leichtman & Company, a Los Angeles investment firm. The offer, for $841 a share, or a total of about $44 million, was $1 a share higher than an offer from National Foods Inc., the maker of Hebrew National products.
Date: 08 July 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: Hitachi Ltd. said the newest generation of computer memory chip, the 4-megabit dynamic random access memory, is now in ''volume production'' and available for sale in the United States. The new chip can store four million bits of information. The International Business
Date: 08 July 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: Volt Information Sciences Inc. has sold its entire 9 percent stake in the Triad Systems Corporation. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Volt gave no reason for the sales. Volt had offered to acquire Triad, a computer services concern based in Livermore, Calif., for $17 a share, or a total of $132.6 million, but agreed to end its bid in favor of a recapitalization plan under which Triad will pay shareholders $15 a share in cash and one share of the recapitalized company.
Date: 08 July 1989
Reuters
LEAD: An investment group led by Wasserstein, Perella & Company said it had raised its stake in Gateway, the British supermarket chain, to more than 30 percent. Almost 380 million shares changed hands today as the investor group bought the stock on the open market. In the United States, the American depository receipts of Gateway gained 50 cents today, to $18.75.
Date: 08 July 1989
LEAD: ATLANTA, July 7 (AP) - RJR Nabisco Inc. announced the sale of its biscuit and food businesses in India and Pakistan for about $44 million, another move in its effort to reduce the debt from its nearly $25 billion leveraged buyout by Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company. Britannia Industries Pte. Ltd.
Date: 08 July 1989
LEAD: A New York investment group comprising Steinhardt Partners and Japonica Partners has offered to acquire Allegheny International Inc. for $700 million in cash, debt and equity securities. The offer is part of a reorganization plan for the consumer products company, which filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code in February 1988.
Date: 08 July 1989
LEAD: The Squibb Corporation said it would invest $50 million in long-term research in cellular and molecular biology and genetics at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. The drug company, based in Princeton, N.J., will build a research center at Illkirch-Graffenstaden, near Strasbourg, where it will support 50 of the 400 scientists directed by Prof.