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The House Appropriations Committee Thursday extended existing prohibitions against oil or gas explor

KUWAIT, USSR TO DRILL IN EACH OTHER'S FIELDSKuwait and the Soviet Union hope to drill for oi

Police raided a company allegedly involved in the sale to Iran of poison gas chemicals, seizing evid

HAZELWOOD TRIAL SET FOR OCT. 30 IN ALASKAA judge Wednesday set an Oct. 30 trial date for Jos

CHRYSLER BEIJING PLANT WORKING NEAR CAPACITYChrysler Corp. said its Beijing Jeep plant has b

Initially fearful it would lose jobs from construction of a $110 million automated breakbulk termina

The House Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs committee passed a two-year reauthorization of the fede

A criminal court judge issued arrest warrants Thursday for four executives of Ford Motor Co.'s Venez

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or

Almost every day a small group shows up on Parliament Hill to protest Prime Minister Brian Mulroney'

The Jamaican government has ordered 10,000 fiber-optic seals from E.J. Brooks of Newark, N.J., as pa

Growth in some big U.S. cities appears to have slowed but the economies of several metropolitan area

Even though the rains have returned to the U.S. Great Plains and Canadian Prairie Provinces since la

Sea-Land Service Inc. expects to add 20 more employees to its present 80- person staff in South Kore

A state legislative conference committee has dropped a plan that would have required the Massachuset

CME GETS CFTC NOD ON CURRENCY CONTRACTSIn its first consideration of new contracts since the

Striking Eastern Airlines pilots have charged that the company's efforts to meet its summer schedule

For the first time in seven years, South Korea's shipping industry recorded an overall profit last y

Trucking investor Allan D. Musgrove, who acquired several ailing freight lines last year, added a st

GRAND TRUNK WESTERN (Detroit) - Robert Gavin was named international sales manager, anew position. H

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has instructed the British Treasury and Foreign Office to begin wor

HELP-WANTED AD INDEX SHOWS MODEST DECLINEAn index that reflects the quantity of help-wanted

The rise in interest rates across Europe Thursday was a coordinated move, which likely will be follo

ARGENTINA INCREASES AUSTRAL DEVALUATIONSBUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina has increased de

Weed killer applied to more than 4 million acres of Illinois and Iowa soybeans last year has stayed

The chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee said Wednesday environmental issue

EL AL ISRAEL AIRLINES MAKES 1ST USSR VISITEl Al Israel Airlines has made its first ever visi

It has been an ominous spring for computer software makers, with slower sales, delayed products and

To win freighter forwarders' favor, airlines must improve and expedite ground handling of air cargo,

HANDY & HARMAN (New York) - Frank E. Grzelecki was elected vice chairman, a new position at this pre

June 28, 1989 U.S. spot oil products price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon,

The value of newly started U.S. construction contracts receded slightly in May but remained well abo

The Bush administration, citing rising losses and declining participation, called for an end to the

At the time, it was the largest single seizure of cocaine in U.S. history. When U.S. Customs

DEC POISED TO ENTER MAINFRAME MARKETFRAMINGHAM, Mass. - Digital Equipment Corp. is poised to

The dollar rose against the Japanese yen Wednesday amid concern over the political situation in Japa

United Airlines pilots are refusing to fly new jumbo jets due for delivery beginning next month from

BANK OF AMERICA (San Francisco) - Gabriel Eichler, 39, a vice president, was named director of inter

Police are conducting spot checks of cars and vans approaching Frankfurt Airport as part of increase

West Germany will try to stop the shipment from India to Iran of 257 tons of a chemical used to make