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the kgb has abolished a unit known for <unk> <unk> the government newspaper <unk> said |
the newspaper quoted kgb chairman <unk> a. <unk> as saying the definition of <unk> crimes had narrowed the laws had changed and people no longer have to fear a simple slip of the <unk> |
mr. <unk> was quoted as saying that in place of the <unk> <unk> <unk> a new unit would work to <unk> the <unk> of foreign intelligence services to create and use organized <unk> groups in our country |
czechoslovakia has restricted <unk> exports to neighbor countries because of massive buying out of food by tourists from poland hungary and the soviet union the <unk> <unk> daily said |
rising inflation in poland and hungary makes <unk> food clothing and shoes relatively cheap for visitors from these countries |
the paper gave no details of what the restrictions would <unk> but said the measures were necessary to protect the domestic market |
west germany 's biggest union ig metall said it is ready to back demands for more pay and shorter hours with strikes against the nation 's automotive steel and engineering industries |
its chairman told the union to prepare for the worst in next year 's confrontation with employers over a new three-year wage deal |
a major goal is to cut the working week to N hours from the present N |
last week came news of alarm in venice over a plan to tap gas fields off the city 's coast |
now comes word from a scientist that over the next century venice will sink nearly three times faster than the present rate because of the greenhouse effect |
global warming means higher <unk> which will lower venice by another N inches in the next N years giovanni <unk> of the the new venice consortium said |
the consortium of scientists and companies was set up by italy to help preserve the <unk> city of <unk> |
venice has <unk> N inches in this century |
west germany 's <unk> said it will establish a mail-order operation with two local partners in the soviet union next year |
saying this is a first for a western company west germany 's largest mail-order group said the newly established <unk> <unk> company is scheduled to begin operations in february N |
<unk> will initially only send the textile and clothing section of the <unk> catalog translated into russian to soviet customers who have access to convertible currency |
the european community commission has imposed provisional <unk> duties on imports of south korean <unk> <unk> sets |
saying that a surge in <unk> imports had damaged ec producers ' profits and led to job losses the commission imposed a duty of N N on tvs made by daewoo a duty of N N on <unk> co. N N on <unk> and N N on tvs made by other south korean producers |
the commission said that ec television producers lost important market shares and suffered an <unk> pressure on prices because of the korean companies ' marketing and pricing policies which it said were in clear violation of international trade rules |
in other news concerning south korea 's television industry <unk> signed an agreement with <unk> the <unk> organization of the soviet union to swap korean television sets and videocassette recorders for <unk> iron from the soviet union |
south korea and the soviet union have no diplomatic relations but exchanged trade offices earlier this year |
sri <unk> where more than N people have died in six years of ethnic turmoil said it will ban sex and violence from state-owned television next year |
many programs we have now come from the west and are not suitable to our culture a government minister said |
a star attraction on the national network is the u.s. 's <unk> |
a poll of south koreans showed overwhelming opposition to efforts to curb <unk> consumption just because it <unk> foreigners |
broad inc. said it doubled its regular quarterly dividend to five cents a share from N cents on common and to N cents a share N cents on class b stock payable nov. N to holders of record nov. N |
the financial services company emerged from the restructuring of <unk> & broad inc. which spun off its <unk> subsidiary into <unk> & broad home corp. earlier this year and changed its name to broad inc |
for the <unk> fiscal year ended sept. N chairman eli broad said he expected earnings results to <unk> analysts ' estimates which the company said have been revised upward to N cents a share |
this would compare with an estimated loss of N cents a share for the comparable N months last year which included restructuring costs |
if this battle were a movie the producers would be fighting over two scripts with nothing but an opening scene in common |
in the <unk> sony corp. would agree to buy columbia pictures entertainment inc. in a transaction valued at close to $ N billion |
shortly after that sony would offer to buy guber-peters entertainment co. for $ N million and offer its <unk> peter guber and jon peters the chance to run columbia |
mr. peters would fly to new york with the intention of telling warner communications inc. chairman steven j. ross that guber-peters planned to end its five-year contract to produce movies exclusively for warner |
that 's where the two scripts would <unk> |
in affidavits filed in los angeles superior court in connection with the $ N billion <unk> suit warner brought against sony for hiring the two producers mr. guber and mr. peters tell one story |
warner tells another |
in the affidavits mr. peters says he was shocked when mr. ross refused a meeting and made it clear he would stop them |
mr. peters claims he reminded mr. ross that robert daly and terry semel the top executives of the warner brothers studio had repeatedly agreed that we had every right to accept an offer such as sony 's |
in response mr. peters says mr. ross referred to his colleagues at warner with an <unk> and said tell them that they do n't have a job |
you can take them with you |
warner denies mr. ross ever said any such thing and in fact denies virtually everything mr. guber and mr. peters say in their affidavits |
tomorrow warner will file another batch of documents <unk> that the <unk> of everything these guys are saying is basically lies says warner 's chief outside counsel stuart <unk> |
thursday a judge is scheduled to rule on warner 's motion seeking to block the guber-peters duo from going to columbia |
the battery of legal documents filed in the past week in connection with the suit provide a <unk> into the inner workings of this hollywood <unk> |
but they also make it clear that the first thing a judge will have to decide is which if any version of events in this <unk> is <unk> and which fact |
the matter may never even be tried in court |
warner says that what it really wants is for the producers to fulfill their <unk> obligations but the <unk> of this battle and the accusations flying on both sides make it unlikely that the <unk> relationship between warner and its two most <unk> producers can ever be repaired |
warner which is in the process of <unk> with time warner inc. says it is willing to settle the matter out of court |
so far however sony has n't been willing to meet its considerable financial demands |
mr. guber and mr. peters do n't have much to gain from a <unk> battle |
sony for its part could decide that the cost of a warner settlement or court fight is too high choosing instead to find someone else to run columbia although that too would be costly given the financial arrangement already guaranteed to mr. guber and mr. peters |
in that case mr. guber and mr. peters might not suffer financially but they would be left without their dream job of running a studio and with a considerably <unk> relationship with warner |
at the center of any court fight will be the <unk> <unk> of the written contract between warner and the two producers but other <unk> issues will play a big role |
sony and the guber-peters team are hanging much of their case on warner 's willingness last year to release the producers from another contract and on an oral agreement they say allowed them to terminate the current written contract if the opportunity to run a major studio came up |
warner denies such an agreement was made and disputes the guber-peters version of virtually every telephone call and meeting the two sides had on the matter |
just how <unk> the relationship has become is clear from the <unk> versions of the two sides ' current business dealings |
mr. guber and mr. peters say in their affidavits that warner already is taking steps to freeze them out of their projects at warner notably the <unk> <unk> film <unk> and cash |
mr. peters says in his affidavit that the movie 's staff was told last week that warner was taking over the picture and another producer would be giving all of the orders |
over his objections mr. peters says the film 's release date was moved up by many months to december and plans for a <unk> worth millions of dollars were dropped |
<unk> de la <unk> an editor on the film backs mr. peters in a separate sworn declaration |
mr. de la <unk> says warner brothers production president mark canton called him oct. N and said mr. peters is off the picture |
if he calls you up just tell him everything is fine |
the editor also says the new producer on the film bruce <unk> told editors to screen the picture without telling stars <unk> <unk> and kurt russell or mr. peters |
the less they know the easier it is for us |
if someone asks just lie and tell them it will be done mr. de la <unk> says mr. <unk> told them |
that says warner 's mr. <unk> is a total N N lie |
the movie he says is in its <unk> stages of cleaning up the film |
he says mr. peters and mr. guber as the <unk> producers with <unk> rights have been invited to <unk> and to give their input on the film |
dozens of guber-peters staffers are still working on the warner lot and consulting on various projects on a daily basis the attorney says |
mr. guber in his affidavit says that when he advised warner president terry semel of the sony offer at lunch on sept. N mr. semel <unk> and <unk> me and expressed <unk> that we had finally realized our long-term <unk> of running and having an equity position in a major entertainment company |
mr. guber says he brought to lunch a release document warner had agreed to in N when he and mr. peters made an aborted bid to buy part of mgm\/ua entertainment co. to run the mgm studio |
mr. guber says he had crossed out mgm with a red <unk> and written in columbia giving the document to mr. semel |
mr. semel said absolutely nothing to indicate warner would have any <unk> to our assuming management positions at columbia mr. guber says |
mr. semel in his affidavit does n't mention any <unk> or <unk> |
he says he told mr. guber he could n't sign any documents and that the deal although apparently a good one for him and mr. peters would have a very negative impact on warner |
he said he would contact mr. ross and warner brothers chairman robert daly and that in a conference call the three agreed they could n't let the producers out of their contract |
mr. ross in his own affidavit says he and mr. daly instructed mr. semel to tell the producers warner would n't terminate their agreement |
mr. guber says that mr. semel did convey that information and that mr. semel said mr. ross was crazy because of the time deal meaning mr. guber says that mr. ross did not want to <unk> to his new merger partner time inc. that warner 's agreements provided for our departure under these circumstances |
mr. guber also says in his affidavit that mr. daly told us that even if sony did not want us warner 's relationship with us already was <unk> damaged that there was no way to put the egg together and that it would sue sony for tons of money |
moreover mr. guber claims mr. semel told him that mr. ross probably would n't object if it were anybody other than sony |
but sony is a problem |
the guber-peters side has said warner is particularly concerned about the prospect of a huge japanese company controlling important segments of the u.s. entertainment business |
some in hollywood suggest mr. guber and mr. peters took encouragement from warner studio executives such as mr. semel and mr. canton too literally |
according to this theory warner executives hoping to strengthen their relationships with the producers encouraged mr. guber and mr. peters in their ambitions to build a major entertainment company |
but the warner executives in their affidavits deny ever telling the producers they could get out of their written contract |
mr. <unk> the warner attorney says the studio still wants the producers to come back and fulfill their contract |
they are like a <unk> they have N projects in development for warner he says |
but mr. guber indicates in his affidavit that not all of the projects will be used |
for example he says that since N he and mr. peters have developed over N movie projects and warner has passed or chosen not to produce at least N |
as for the projects remaining at warner mr. guber says mr. semel informed me that warner 's producers have already started a feeding frenzy for our projects |
<unk> <unk> co. said it has acquired a georgia cable television company and a massachusetts publishing firm |
terms on both deals were n't disclosed |
the media company said it purchased cable usa inc. a privately held cable television system in <unk> county ga. a suburb of atlanta |
the system is still under construction and will serve a market of N homes |
the company also has acquired <unk> publishers and distributors inc. a family owned producer and distributor of educational materials in <unk> mass |
despite politicians ' <unk> about the federal budget the government ended fiscal N with a $ N billion deficit about the same as the two previous years |
even white house budget director richard darman had trouble finding a silver <unk> in the report |
i <unk> you could say the good news is that the deficits are not heading up he said but you ca n't be satisfied with deficits at this level and we 're not |
the federal deficit was $ N billion in N and $ N billion in N |
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