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ABOARD THE COAST GUARD CUTTER WRANGELL - Coast Guard and other intelligence sources had just passed

The British Shippers' Council is seeking a European Commission investigation into the legality of ra

PERSONAL INSURANCE FEDERATION OF CALIFORNIA (Sacramento, Calif.) - Dan C. Dunmoyer was named vice pr

The "war of words" between Sir James Goldsmith and his latest acquisition target, London's B.A.T. In

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One thing about the maritime industry, there are an incredible number of conventions, seminars, meet

SOUTH AMERICA Metalurgica '89. Sept. 28-Oct. 8. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentine agricultu

US FARM PRICES FELL 1.4 PERCENT IN AUGUSTThe index of prices received by farmers for their p

The world's leading central banks intervened to sell U.S. dollars Tuesday as part of a concerted eff

The Chicago Board of Trade set a monthly volume record of nearly 14 million contracts during August,

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has begun placing more people on trading floors in an effo

Damage to the Earth's ozone layer could devastate the planet's food supply by reducing crop yields a

With seven months to go before Peruvian elections, the International Monetary Fund has taken center

Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida said debtor nations were showing courage in restructuring their

CHINA MOVES TO SPUR PRODUCTION OF COTTONChina has decided to raise the price of cotton 34 pe

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Cocoa and coffee futures sank Tuesday on a stronger dollar against the British pound. The do

Japanese trade negotiators launched a fierce attack on the use of leveraged buy-outs by U.S. corpora

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FALLS IN W. GERMANYFRANKFURT, West Germany - The unemployment rate in West

AMERICAN EXPRESS CO. (New York) - Joan Edelman Spero was named senior vice president and treasurer.<

THE FEDERAL RESERVE could be implementing a slight additional easing in monetary policy in reaction

BANK TO DONATE LOANS FOR PERUVIAN PROGRAMSNEW YORK - American Express Bank Ltd. agreed to do

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Truckers won another round in their tax fight with state governments last week when the Vermont Supr

RAIL, UNION REACH SEPARATION AGREEMENTNORFOLK, Va. - Norfolk Southern Corp. has reached a vo

James R. Paul, president and chief operating officer of Coastal Corp., Houston, was apparently tappe

The Singapore International Monetary Exchange's fuel oil futures contract for September recorded 510

Officials at the Delaware River Port Authority are taking heart from an offer by Conrail to let the

General Electric Co., General Motors Corp. and a West German consortium of Thyssen Hanschel and Krup

ECONOMIC GURUS OUGHT TO TALK to railroad traffic officers. Assessments of the state of the n

MARATHON STARTS UP NORTH SEA OIL FIELDCrude oil production began Friday at Marathon Oil UK's

Mobil Sales and Supplies Corp., a subsidiary of Mobil Oil Corp., and Morgan Stanley Group Inc., the

EXPLOSION DESTROYS TAIWAN CHEMICAL PLANTTAIPEI, Taiwan - An explosion ripped through an unli

The revolutionary slogans that adorn much of Marxist Angola are not found inside the Cabinda Gulf Oi

William Loftus will be named president of the American Short Line Railroad Association, reliable sou

The U.S. Postal Service plans within the next several months to triple the number of gateway cities

Representatives of GPA Group Ltd., Lufthansa and Swissair signed a letter of intent Thursday establi

Japanese commodities traders are projecting a continuing slide in soybean imports from the United St

More than $7 million in new equipment at an expanded Mitsui O.S.K. Ltd. terminal in Seattle is cutti

U.S. businessmen may be interested in Asia, especially the fast-growing southeastern corner, but nee