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NBC 'Nightly News' To Move to 6:30 From 7

Date: 13 June 1991

By Bill Carter

Bill Carter

The NBC "Nightly News" with Tom Brokaw will be moved to 6:30 P.M. from 7 P.M. in New York starting in September in favor of the syndicated show "Love Connection," officials at WNBC, the network's station in New York, said yesterday. WNBC, Channel 4, announced the move as part of a reorganization of its evening programming. On Sept. 9, the station also plans to cut back its local 6 P.M. newscast to a half-hour from an hour to make room for "Love Connection." Channel 4 will also add a new program called "Ruckus" at 7:30 P.M., replacing "Family Feud."

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 14 June 1991

International A3-11 Boris Yeltsin swept to victory in the presidential election in the Russian republic, becoming the first popularly elected leader in Russian history. And in another rebuff to Communism, voters in Leningrad called for restoration of the city's original name, St. Petersburg. Page A1

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Date: 13 June 1991

INTERNATIONAL A3-19 General Schwarzkopf was critical of the quality and timeliness of intelligence given his forces during the Persian Gulf war in a meeting with Congress. Page A1 Iran says it fears "massacre" in Iraq A6

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Man in the News: Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin; Communists' Big Rival

Date: 14 June 1991

By Esther B. Fein

Esther

In winning a clear victory as Russia's first democratically elected President, Boris N. Yeltsin has taken the ultimate revenge on the entrenched Communist Party bureacuracy here that first elevated him through its ranks, then banished him for daring to defy it. From his textbook rise to power within the party, it would have been impossible to predict that he would one day emerge as its greatest and perhaps most powerful rival.

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Travelers Cutback

Date: 14 June 1991

AP

The Travelers Corporation will eliminate 93 jobs and create 39 new ones over the next few months in a realignment of field offices, the company said. The reorganization affects commercial-lines operations, which sell property-casualty insurance and services to businesses. None of the job cuts will be in Connecticut, and some of the people whose jobs are eliminated will be given the new field positions, Travelers said.

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G.M. Warranties

Date: 13 June 1991

AP

The General Motors Corporation will waive the $100 deductible for warranty work after the first 12 months of coverage for its 1992 cars and light trucks. The warranty on a 1992 model will cover the entire vehicle for three years or 36,000 miles. Warranties for 1989-91 models were effective for three years or 50,000 miles and had a $100 deductible after the first 12 months or 12,000 miles.

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U.S. Open Becomes News Story

Date: 14 June 1991

By Richard Sandomir

Richard Sandomir

The death of one spectator and injuries to five others during a torrential thunderstorm yesterday at the United States Open in Chaska, Minn., transformed coverage of one of the major golf championships from a sports event into a news story. But it was a story that ABC could only cover passively because the United States Golf Association had emptied the Hazeltine National Golf Course of the network's commentators and crews. All information about the aftermath of the fatal lightning strike was relayed by radio from the marshals on the course.

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Airbus to Plan A Larger Plane

Date: 14 June 1991

Reuters

Airbus Industrie, the European aircraft consortium, will open talks with six airlines later this year about developing a new large-capacity, long-range airliner, Airbus officials said today. Stuart Iddles, Airbus's senior vice president, said at a news conference at the Paris Air Show that the airlines include the Chicago-based UAL Corporation's United and four Asia-Pacific carriers. They have expressed interest in an aircraft with 600 or more seats, he said.

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New N.T.T. Unit

Date: 13 June 1991

Reuters

The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation plans to set up a new company in Germany near the end of the month. N.T.T. will own 90 percent of the new company, N.T.T. Deutschland G.m.b.H., to be based in Dusseldorf, and two of its other subsidiaries will evenly split the remaining 10 percent. The German operation will encourage the development of new business and coordinate technical operations between N.T.T. and European telecommunications companies.

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Apple Suit With Hewlett

Date: 14 June 1991

A Federal District judge today heard several motions from Apple Computer Inc. and the Hewlett-Packard Company in the long-running copyright infringment suit brought by Apple against Hewlett-Packard and the Microsoft Corporation. Apple sued in 1988, claiming that visual elements in Microsoft's Windows and Hewlett's New Wave programs infringe its copyrights on the Macintosh user interface.

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