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Date: 05 August 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A2-8 Jordan is dismissing the employees of virtually all its agencies in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The decision affects as many as 21,000 Palestinians who are paid in full or in part by Amman. Page A1 A plan to compensate the families of the 290 people who died when an American warship shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf faces solid opposition in Congress.
Date: 04 August 1988
By Dena Kleiman
Dena Kleiman
LEAD: Ordinarily soft-spoken in his courtroom and with a reputation for settling cases long before they get to trial, Judge Leonard B. Sand appears to be an unlikely target for diatribe.
Date: 04 August 1988
By Charles Mohr & David Binder
Charles David
LEAD: The phrase ''journalism is a a young man's game'' was made at least partly obsolete years ago by large numbers of extraordinarily talented women in all branches of the profession.
Date: 04 August 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The Washington investors, Steven M. Rales and Mitchell P. Rales, demanded a list of all of the shareholders of Interco Inc. The Rales brothers have offered to acquire Interco, the nation's biggest manufacturer of furniture and men's shoes, for $64 a share, or $2.1 billion. In a letter to Interco dated Tuesday, contained in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the Rales brothers said that the purpose of their demand is to communicate directly with the company's shareholders.
Date: 05 August 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: A Miami physician, M. Lee Pearce, has applied for permission from Federal antitrust regulators to raise his stake in American Medical International Inc., a Beverly Hills, Calif., hospital concern, to 15 percent from his current 7.5 percent holding. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Dr.
Date: 05 August 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: Plantronics Inc., a manufacturer of telephone headsets and other communications products based in Santa Cruz, Calif., said today that it had agreed to be acquired in a management buyout for $25 a share, or about $128.3 million.
Date: 04 August 1988
AP
LEAD: The Coastal Corporation and a company owned by the Government of China today announced plans to form a joint venture to own and operate Coastal's West Coast refining and marketing properties. The announcement said
Date: 05 August 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: In a move to broaden its health care operations, Britain's BOC Group P.L.C. said today that it had agreed to acquire Spectramed Inc. of Newport Beach, Calif., for $12 a share, or $101 million.
Date: 05 August 1988
Reuters
LEAD: The redesigned 1989 Corvette from the General Motors Corporation's Chevrolet division will have an engine made almost entirely of aluminum, G.M. said. A Chevrolet spokesman, Ed Lechtzin, said the car was scheduled to be introduced next spring.