NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 28 February 1989
LEAD: International A3-15
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Date: 27 February 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A2-13 President Bush praised South Korea for its efforts ''to build bridges'' to its Communist enemies across the demilitarized zone in North Korea. He was speaking to South Korea's National Assembly. Page A1
Date: 28 February 1989
LEAD: ABC News announced yesterday that Phyllis McGrady has been appointed executive producer of its new prime-time news program to be anchored by Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson. Ms. McGrady, who had been executive producer of the ''Barbara Walters Specials'' at ABC, is to oversee development and production.
Date: 27 February 1989
LEAD: The American Society of Newspaper Editors has selected six recipients of its Distinguished Writing Awards for work done in 1988.
Date: 28 February 1989
By A. M. Rosenthal
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LEAD: Four years ago, three foreign correspondents and an editor of The New York Times met in Amman to talk about coverage of the Middle East.
Date: 28 February 1989
Reuters
LEAD: The Enserch Corporation, based in Dallas, said it was delaying its previously announced shareholder-rights offering of its Pool Energy Service Company subsidiary to allow for talks with a potential buyer. The price of the offering was to have been set today. Under the tentative arrangements being discussed, Enserch said, the company would eliminate several contingent financial commitments required under the proposed public offering.
Date: 28 February 1989
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The Coastal Corporation said it would not raise its $42-a-share cash tender offer for the Texas Eastern Corporation in the face of a $53-a-share offer from the Panhandle Eastern Corporation. The Houston-based energy company also said it might sell some or all of its stake of almost 2.5 million shares in Texas Eastern.
Date: 28 February 1989
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: Vincent Tan, a Malaysian investor, and Paul A. Bilzerian, chairman of the Singer Company, have begun a joint tender offer of $33 a share for control of SSMC Inc., a bid with a total estimated value of $160 million.
Date: 28 February 1989
Reuters
LEAD: Beazer P.L.C. said it had sold the polyester resin business of the Koppers Company to Reichhold Chemicals Inc., which is owned by Dainippon Ink and Chemicals Inc., for $78 million in cash. The division, a leading producer of polyester thermoset resins, had annual revenues of about $120 million in 1988.
Date: 28 February 1989
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The Varity Corporation withdrew its second bid in five months for the Fruehauf Corporation, which it said had refused an offer to extend a deadline of last Saturday. ''We are very much on the sidelines now,'' said John McCarter, secretary of Varity, a Toronto-based maker of farm machinery. But Mr.