30 april 1991 was een dinsdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♉. Het was de 119e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George Bush.
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Date: 30 April 1991
By Eugene Eoyang
Eugene Eoyang
A seemingly innocuous poem appeared in The People's Daily in Beijing on March 20. The poem has become a cause celebre, for in it was a diagonal acrostic that read, literally, "Li Peng step down; mollify the people's anger." The author is believed to be a Chinese student studying in the U.S. The editor responsible for publishing the poem reportedly was arrested on April 12.
Date: 30 April 1991
By Felicia R. Lee
Felicia Lee
Faced with criticism that he spends too much time on tennis courts and not enough on city business, Mayor David N. Dinkins spent time on a tennis court yesterday and made sure everyone knew it. The occasion was in fact a serious one. The parents of Brian Watkins, the 22-year-old Utah tourist slain last year, returned to New York yesterday for the dedication of a tennis center named in honor of their son. He was stabbed to death in a Manhattan subway station on Sept. 2 as he defended his mother during a mugging.
Date: 01 May 1991
By John Tagliabue
John Tagliabue
In the halls and aisles of this year's Leipzig Book Fair, publishers and booksellers discuss soaring prices and collapsing markets and readers flocking to once-forbidden foreign authors and new media, like video. Under Communism, it was said that the newspapers printed fiction, so people sought the truth in books. Now that is reversing, so while newspapers flourish, book publishing is caught in crisis. "Who's reading these days?" sighed Krystyna Szmeja, senior editor at Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza of Poland, as the annual book fair opened on April 24.
Date: 30 April 1991
To the Editor: "More often than not," Ishmael Reed writes of television network news in "Tuning Out Network Bias" (Op-Ed, April 9), "they associate black and Hispanic people exclusively with drugs, crime, unwed parenthood, welfare, homelessness, child abuse and rape, although the majority of the people involved in these circumstances are white." I am sympathetic to his concerns about how minorities are portrayed, but I object to his inaccuracies concerning ABC News and take great offense at the illustration for his article. I am a reporter for "American Agenda," a feature of ABC World News Tonight, as well as founder of the minority advisory board at ABC. It is true that African-Americans are disproportionately associated with "underclass" (a word we never use) activities on "American Agenda," because unfortunately blacks are disproportionately poor.
Date: 01 May 1991
International A3-15 Many Kurds are deciding to return directly to their homes in the area of Zakho and are bypassing the new tent city built for them by the United States in a wheat field. Page A1
Date: 30 April 1991
INTERNATIONAL A3-11 A proposal for a United Nations force in northern Iraq is being debated by the permanent members of the Security Council. The force would take over control of the refugee zone from the allied military forces. Page A1 United States considers more aid for Kurdish refugees in IranA11
Date: 01 May 1991
* Champion Parts Inc., Oak Brook, Ill., a maker of automotive parts and systems, will close its Fort Worth plant this year. * Compucom Systems Inc., Dallas, a microcomputer dealer, has completed the acquisition of Computer Factory Inc., Elmsford, N.Y., for $38 million.
Date: 01 May 1991
AP
The General Electric Company said its jet-engine division would lay off 1,800 people, including 1,000 who worked on its losing bid to supply engines to the Air Force's newest jet fighter. The layoffs had been expected since last week, when the Pentagon chose Pratt & Whitney Inc. to supply engines for the Advanced Tactical Fighter. The layoffs represent about 5 percent of the work force of 37,000 at G.E.'s plant in Evendale, Ohio.
Date: 30 April 1991
AP
Business prospects for the International Business Machines Corporation will remain weak for the remainder of the year, the computer maker's chairman told shareholders at the company's annual meeting today. "While we'd like to believe economic recovery is just around the corner, we'll have to wait and see," John F. Akers said. "We have seen no evidence yet to indicate any improvement in the near term, and consequently the year remains uncertain." The company had reported a first-quarter loss of $1.73 billion, largely because of an accounting change. Wall Street reacted negatively to Mr. Akers's comments. I.B.M.'s stock fell $2.25 a share on the New York Stock Exchange to close at $104.875.
Date: 01 May 1991
The land development unit of the Mobil Corporation said today that it had signed an option to acquire the vast Stonebridge Ranch property north of Dallas from the Government. Terms were not disclosed. The sale would conclude a two-year effort by the Government to sell the 6,230-acre development of expensive homes, lakes and golf courses 43 miles outside Dallas.