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Date: 15 August 1996
By Bernard Weinraub
Bernard Weinraub
Director Mike Nichols comments on making film adaptation of novel Primary Colors, phone interview; Mike Sager and Janet Cooke comment on their deal with Tri-Star Pictures for film based on Sager's article about Cooke, who won and lost Pulitzer Prize for 1981 article for Washington Post that proved to be hoax, phone interviews; photos (M)
Date: 15 August 1996
Trading in Nintendo Co is suspended in Tokyo, after Nihon Keizai Shimbun, an economic newspaper, says pretax profit would tumble 70 percent for fiscal year; Nintendo denies report and says its pretax profit might exceed its forecast of 27 billion yen, or $250 million; Kyodo News Service further reports that Gumpei Yokoi, head of Nintendo's development team, is leaving (S)
Date: 15 August 1996
By Sam Dillon
Sam Dillon
Even though Mexican reporters are enjoying outspoken new brand of journalism, often investigative and frequently irreverent, Govt and President can still wield heavy hand at times to influence news coverage; many journalists say, despite new freedoms, system still remains authoritarian (M)
Date: 15 August 1996
By Elizabeth Kolbert and Adam Nagourney
Elizabeth Kolbert
Profile of Republican Presidential nominee Robert Joseph Dole (Man In The News); photo (M)
Date: 15 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Time Warner Inc signs consent order with staff of Federal Trade Commission, clearing the way for completion of its $6.7 billion acquisition of Turner Broadcasting System Inc (S)
Date: 14 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
United Airlines is expected to announce multibillion-dollar order for Boeing planes; analysts estimate order could be worth more than $3 billion; order is expected to include Boeing 747 planes and several Boeing 777's (S)
Date: 15 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Payco American Corp agrees to be bought by closely held OSI Holdings Corp for about $150 million in cash and debt (S)
Date: 15 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Deluxe Corp, nation's largest printer of bank checks, says it might sell its health-care forms, credit-card processing and other businesses as it moves to focus on more profitable operations like check printing (S)
Date: 14 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Argyle Television Inc rise 23 perent after company says it is exploring possibility of selling the company or taking other strategic steps; Argyle Television owns stations in markets that include Grand Rapids, Mich, Buffalo, NY, Providence, RI, and Fort Smith, Ark (S)
Date: 15 August 1996
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Electronic Data Systems Corp files with Securities and Exchange Commission to sell as much as $2 billion of debt securities (S)