NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 24 January 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A2-11 An earthquake in Soviet Central Asia set off an enormous landslide that killed about 1,000 farm villagers, the Government press agency Tass said. Page A1
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Date: 24 January 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A2-11 An earthquake in Soviet Central Asia set off an enormous landslide that killed about 1,000 farm villagers, the Government press agency Tass said. Page A1
Date: 23 January 1989
By Kurt Eichenwald, Special To the New York Times
Kurt Eichenwald
LEAD: To some lawyers here, Anton Ronald Valukas, the United States Attorney in Chicago, is the Rudolph Giuliani of the Midwest. But others, including some people who work on his staff, scoff at the notion. Mr. Valukas, they say, has been even more aggressive than his counterpart in Manhattan.
Date: 24 January 1989
By A. M. Rosenthal
A.
LEAD: Every major news office in the country has been going through a transition period of its own. It happens after every Presidential election.
Date: 24 January 1989
AP
LEAD: The State Supreme Court upheld New Jersey's shield law today, ruling that a former newspaper reporter should not have to testify in the murder trial of a man he interviewed.
Date: 23 January 1989
LEAD: Machinists employed by The New York Times voted yesterday to ratify a six-year extension of a labor contract that expired nearly two years ago, thus becoming the last of 14 unions to approve agreements with the newspaper through March 1993.
Date: 23 January 1989
By Geraldine Fabrikant
Geraldine Fabrikant
LEAD: Ted Turner has always had a knack for making headlines, but for the past three years most of the news has been bad. The trouble began with his $1.5 billion purchase of the MGM/UA Entertainment Company in 1986, which submerged his relatively small company in what threatened to be overwhelming debt.
Date: 24 January 1989
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The Tesoro Petroleum Corporation of San Antonio has been ordered to pay more than $56 million to the Energy Department for regulatory violations between 1973 and 1981, the company said today. According to the agency's final order, Tesoro has 30 days to make an initial payment of $25 million, after which six annual payments of $5.2 million will be due.
Date: 24 January 1989
LEAD: Peebles Holdings Inc., owner of the 49 Peebles department stores in seven mid-Atlantic states, said yesterday that it had been acquired by the PBL Acquisition Corporation for about $160 million in cash.
Date: 24 January 1989
LEAD: Filene's, the fashion specialty store, will cease operations in the Galleria mall, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., after little more than a year in the center. The Filene's chain was acquired last year by the May Department Stores Company, St. Louis, from Federated Department Stores.