Excerpts From the Bush News Conference on the Budget and the Mideast
Date: 10 October 1990
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: Following are excerpts from a transcript of President Bush's news conference today, as recorded by the Federal News Service, a transcription company: OPENING STATEMENT
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Upshaw Speaks Out
Date: 09 October 1990
LEAD: Gene Upshaw, the executive director of the National Football League players' union, said yesterday that a separate area apart from the locker room should be provided for the news media after games splayers would not be required to participate in media interviews unless fully clothed.
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INSIDE
Date: 09 October 1990
LEAD: 2 Americans Share Nobel Prize in Medicine Two American physicians who pioneered organ and tissue transplants, helping tens of thousands of patients, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. One of them, Dr. Joseph E. Murray of
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Review/Television; Looks at Saddam Hussein And Savings-and-Loans
Date: 09 October 1990
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
LEAD: CNN's ''Special Assignment'' team has been busy in recent weeks with two subjects that warrant national scrutiny, the confrontation in the Persian Gulf and the collapse of many savings-and-loan institutions. Given the vagaries of the cable network's scheduling, the reports are easy to miss, yet worth catching for the background and analysis they offer of problematic situations.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 09 October 1990
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-14 At least 19 Palestinians were killed and more than 100 wounded during an hourlong battle outside Al Aksa Mosque between Israeli policemen and thousands of Arabs hurling rocks and bottles at Jews praying at the Western Wall below. Page A1
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 10 October 1990
LEAD: International A3-11
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Computer Factory
Date: 10 October 1990
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: The Bay Street Group Ltd., the San Francisco investment group that has offered to acquire Computer Factory Inc. for $34.6 million in cash, said that if its offer succeeded, it might sell all or a substantial portion of the personal computer retail chain. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Bay Street said it had talked with various parties about selling certain Computer Factory assets.
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Closing at Preston
Date: 10 October 1990
Reuters
LEAD: The Preston Corporation said it would close its Reeves Transportation Company and Pioneer Transportation Systems Inc. units and take a related $17 million charge in its third quarter. The company said the units would not accept any new business after Wednesday but would honor existing arrangements.
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Scattered Military News Lifts Oil by 96/, to $38.95
Date: 09 October 1990
By Matthew L. Wald
Matthew Wald
LEAD: With little diplomatic news from the Persian Gulf, oil prices moved up again on scattered military news in light trading yesterday, a holiday for some.
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Cigna Unit-Atwood
Date: 10 October 1990
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: A unit of the Cigna Corporation, the Philadelphia insurer, has acquired 8.9 percent of Atwood Oceanics Inc., the Houston oil drilling concern. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the subsidiary, the Philadelphia Investment Corporation of Delaware, said it had bought the Atwood shares to provide Atwood with cash to finance limited partnerships in which the companies own interests.
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