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Date: 02 April 1997
By Patrick E. Tyler
Patrick Tyler
Chinease journalist Wei Guoqiang recently committed suicide in Beijing after being recalled from his post in Washington, DC, where he reportedly had been discovered preparing to defect; Wei was Washington bureau chief of New China News Agency (M)
Date: 01 April 1997
By Lawrence K. Altman
Lawrence Altman
Man In The News profile of San Diego County, Calif, Medical Examiner Brian D Blackbourne, who had grim task of leading team of pathologists performing autopsies on 39 members of Heaven's Gate cult, who committed mass suicide; photo (M)
Date: 02 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
John Alden Financial Corp will eliminate 725 jobs in 1997 to cut costs and focus on its group health insurance and managed-care businesses; company will take $15 million charge against earnings for cost of dismissing workers (S)
Date: 01 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Thermo Cardiosystems Inc, maker of Heartmate pumping device, plans to buy affiliated company, the International Technidyne Corp, for 3.36 million shares of stock, valued at $69.6 million (S)
Date: 01 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Physician Corp of America asks lenders for more time to review ways to pay its loans after Sierra Health Services Inc canceled plans on March 18 to buy the company and left it in default of $102 million in bank debt; Physician Corp says it had fourth-quarter loss of $182.6 million on revenue of $365.1 million (S)
Date: 01 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
H F Ahmanson & Co says 80 percent of shares of Great Western Financial Corp voted so far in a referendum are in favor of its $6.18 billion hostile takeover bid (S)
Date: 01 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hideo Hohgi, president of Chrysler Corp's Japanese unit, resigns; Keisuke Egashira, chairman and director of Japanese subsidiary, will temporarily run the unit (S)
Date: 02 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ford Motor Co and its Japanese affiliate, Mazda Motor Corp, agree to make at least two car models using common underbodies (S)
Date: 01 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Nippon Credit Bank Ltd fall more than 3 percent, a sign that investors are worried that expected revamping plan will not solve bank's bad-loan problems; revamping plan includes cutting salaries as much as 50 percent and eliminating jobs of one-third of 3,000 workers (S)
Date: 02 April 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Amstrad PLC, British consumer electronics maker, is selling mobile telephone unit Dancall Telecom to Robert Bosch GmbH of Germany for 92 million pounds ($150 million) (S)