Spiller av søndag 4. oktober 1992

THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Independent; Perot's Quiet Campaign: An Odd Form of Politics

Date: 05 October 1992

By Steven A. Holmes

Steven Holmes

Ross Perot said he was going to be an unconventional candidate. But so far, his rehabilitated bid for the Presidency has been more like a stealth campaign. After keeping the nation on tenterhooks for more than a week about his intentions and then restarting his abandoned Presidential campaign on Thursday with much ballyhoo, the unpredictable Texas businessman has virtually dropped out of sight.

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Boeing Contract Passes

Date: 05 October 1992

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Machinists at the Boeing Company approved a three-year contract Friday that calls for a lump-sum payment of 12 percent of a worker's pay this year and wage increases of 3.5 percent in 1993 and 1994. Workers voted 71 percent in favor of the contract in polling at the Kingdome in Seattle and voting sites in Wichita, Kan., and Portland, Ore.,a union spokesman said.

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House Votes for Regulation Of U.S. Mortgage Agencies

Date: 05 October 1992

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

The House of Representatives has approved a compromise bill to regulate the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. The two Government-sponsored enterprises, better known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, buy residential mortgages from banks and savings institutions, thereby replenishing the money available to lend to home buyers.

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 04 October 1992

International 3-21 SOMALIA'S STUBBORN STRONGMEN

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NEWS SUMMARY

Date: 05 October 1992

International A3-13 DOZENS DEAD IN DUTCH CRASH An Israeli cargo jet crashed into an apartment complex in a crowded suburb of Amsterdam, setting off a firestorm. At least 12 bodies were recovered within hours after the crash, but the toll was expected to rise steeply as rescue workers dug through the burning rubble. A1 FEARS OF JAPAN'S PLUTONIUM The President of the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru found found himself as the spokesman for a growing number of nations telling Japan to keep the largest sealift of plutonium in history out of their waters. A1

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Labor Leader Is Accused In the Misuse of Accounts

Date: 04 October 1992

By Robert D. McFadden

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The president of the firefighters' union in New York City has been accused in a union internal inquiry of misusing the organization's credit accounts, failing to document nearly $37,000 in questionable expenses and billing the union for $3,263 in gift flowers and car services for friends and relatives. An 11-member, rank-and-file financial investigating committee of the Uniformed Firefighters Association said the president, James J. Boyle, had allowed 16 people, including a Daily News reporter, to use his telephone credit card, and had let other people sign his name for union-paid restaurant bills.

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This Week's Numbers

Date: 04 October 1992

Consensus Last Period Estimates (I.D.E.A. Inc.) Monday Mid Sept. auto sales, millions, annual rate 6 5.7 Wednesday Sept. wholesale trade, percent change 1 0.4 Thursday Late Sept. jobless claims, thousands 429 435 Monday: European Community economic ministers meet Tuesday: Johnson-Redbook survey of retail sales * Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting * Bank of Japan news conference Wednesday: Consumer credit figures released for late September * Britain's Conservative party holds its convention Friday Canadian unemployment report

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Inside 'Hero,' A 1930's Heart Vs. a 90's Brain

Date: 04 October 1992

By Caryn James

Caryn James

There is a moral to the movie "Hero," which Andy Garcia eventually blurts out. He plays John Bubber, a homeless man who takes credit for rescuing dozens of people from a plane crash. The rescue was, in fact, performed by a petty thief named Bernie LaPlante (Dustin Hoffman), going against every impulse in his misanthropic little body. But a television reporter, Gale Gayley (Geena Davis), believes that Bubber pulled her from the burning plane. She makes him a media star, showing how heroes can be made from telegenic looks and sound bites. If "Hero" had stopped there, it would have been a bitterly funny satire. But Bubber performs his own courageous act, which leads to the moral of his story. "I think we're all heroes if you catch us at the right moment," he tells the television cameras. What a soothing sentiment. How totally unconvincing, for there is a more realistic lesson in "Hero." Bernie tells his young son at the movie's end: you can't believe what you see on television.

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Raising Money For Coding System

Date: 05 October 1992

By Stuart Elliott

Stuart Elliott

The American Association of Advertising Agencies and the Association of National Advertisers are undertaking a rare joint effort, to raise money to buy the Industry Standard Coding Identification System for television commercials. At a news conference scheduled for Wednesday in New York, the two trade organizations plan to discuss details of their new Coalition to Preserve I.S.C.I., formed with the support of the Network Television Association, the Cable Television Advertising Bureau and the Television Bureau of Advertising.

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In Britain, a Dismal Time for Economists, Too: London Notebook

Date: 05 October 1992

By Eric Ipsen, International Herald Tribune

Eric Ipsen

With the pound floating, economic policy sunk, and the fate of the chancellor of the Exchequer somewhere in between, Britain's economic future has suddenly become an hugely tough call. . "It is an awful environment in which to make predictions,"

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