25. lokakuuta 1989 oli keskiviikkona tähtimerkin ♏ alla. Se oli 297 päivä vuodesta. Yhdysvaltain presidentti oli George Bush.
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Date: 25 October 1989
By Deirdre Carmody
Deirdre Carmody
LEAD: Two years ago two dozen presidents of top American colleges and universities paid a visit to U.S. News & World Report to complain about the magazine's ''America's Best Colleges'' rankings. They said the methodology was flawed and the survey was a disservice to thousands of high school students seeking direction in choosing a college.
Date: 26 October 1989
LEAD: An isolationist columnist once so angered Franklin Roosevelt that the President bestowed an Iron Cross on him, implying that he was pro-Nazi. Richard Nixon's enemies' list bulged with journalists. In this light, Mikhail Gorbachev's outburst against Vladislav Starkov can be viewed as one more example of the unending adversarial tension between president and press, regardless of system.
Date: 25 October 1989
By Michael Janofsky
Michael Janofsky
LEAD: Carl Lewis, the American sprinter, has initiated legal proceedings in Canada against a West German magazine and a Canadian cable network for having said that he used performance-enhancing drugs.
Date: 25 October 1989
LEAD: International A3-15 President Bush spoke of Germany,predicting major changes in its status in the next decade and playing down European fears about the possibility of reunification. Page A1 East Germany elected Egon Krenz President, although there were votes against him in the usually deferential Parliament.
Date: 26 October 1989
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Moscow has no right to interfere in the affairs of its Eastern European neighbors, President Gorbachev said. He held up neutral Finland as a model of stability in stormy Europe. Page A1
Date: 26 October 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: Maxicare Health Plans Inc. said it had reached agreement with its court-appointed creditors' committees on terms of the company's restructuring in Federal Bankruptcy Court. The health maintenance organization company said creditors and shareholders would receive no less than $78.8 million in cash, 10-year 13.5 percent notes with a face value of $67 million, and common stock and warrants.
Date: 25 October 1989
LEAD: Alexander's Inc., the New York-based chain of 11 department stores, will open a new 147,000-square-foot department store in the East Bronx, which will be its first new store in nine years.
Date: 25 October 1989
Reuters
LEAD: The Sheraton Moscow, the first luxurious American hotel in the Soviet capital, will be built one mile from Red Square, Soviet and United States officials said. Sheraton officials described the six-floor, 450-room hotel as unprecedented in the Soviet Union. It will cost $75 million to construct at 26 Gorky Street, one mile from Red Square in the heart of Moscow, and is expected to be complete by 1992.
Date: 25 October 1989
Special to The New York Times
LEAD: A group led by the Fort Hill Investors Management Corporation, a Boston investment firm, has lowered its stake in the Sealed Air Corporation to 1.7 percent from 7.23 percent. In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the investment group gave no reason for the sale. Sealed Air is a packaging materials concern based in East Saddle Brook, N.J.
Date: 25 October 1989
AP
LEAD: The Rothschild banking family ended an 88-year absence from Germany this week by opening an office in Frankfurt, the family's historic hometown. The Rothschilds, who had lived in Frankfurt since the Middle Ages, closed their last German firm in 1901. By that time, financial activity had shifted elsewhere, and family interests in Paris and London had eclipsed those in Frankfurt.