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Sudan Leader to Visit KHARTOUM, Sudan - Prime Minister Sadek el-Mahdi will visit the United

GENERAL NEWSGeneral Motors Corp. is offering new incentives aimed at urging employees to res

Three wheat-growing countries said they expect the world price to be forced down further by the int

The European Community Commission said it will impose provisional anti- dumping duties on imports of

A lowering of trade barriers and even a common currency system will be high on the agenda when finan

A lowering of trade barriers and even a common currency system will be high on the agenda when finan

Iraqi attacks slashed Iran's vital oil exports by more than 50 percent last week to a daily average

Statoil, the Norwegian state oil company, will announce by mid-September which company will build th

Minneapolis-based Cargill Inc. is moving more heavily into countertrade in Asia, helped by a pioneer

Australians Ratify Sugar Assistance PlanSYDNEY, Australia - Australia's federal government c

Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar urged governments and aid organizations to help fight a cr

President Suharto said that in carrying out its economic development, Indonesia will keep a balance

Iran has chartered the world's largest supertanker to provide floating storage for its crude oil in

Changes at Argentina's central bank should strengthen Economy Minister Juan Sourrouille's grip on po

The hundreds of silver coins, pieces of gold and silver bars stashed in a bank vault more than equal

Air Products and Chemicals Inc. announced that its Houdry Division's Detol hydrodealkylation process

AAR May Participate In Soo Line DisputeThe Association of American Railroads may participate

Mexico's Yucatan conjures up images of the ancient Mayan civilization, and it draws thousands of tou

High taxes and strict quotas have convinced some truckers here to consider registering their vehicle

A discount-rate cut by the West German Bundesbank would likely lift the U.S.dollar briefly,

Containership companies should report better results in the third quarterbecause of a season

A steamship company operating between Washington and Alaska is seeking a 50 percent reduction in fee

The Massachusetts Electric Co. and its customers have raised $191,000 to assist 3,300 low-income fam

Crude steel output in the non-communist world fell 6.9 percent in July to 33.197 million metric tons

In the hazy shadows of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a vacant, sprawling textile plant serves as a deser

Consumer Goods Output Doubles in VietnamBANGKOK, Thailand - Production of consumer goods in

United States Lines (S.A.) Inc., the lone U.S. carrier in the U.S.-Brazil liner cargo pool, believes

Government plans to toughen performance standards for truck drivers hauling hazardous loads should b

A Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman said approval for New Hampshire Yankee Corp. to stage zer

Supply and demand factors will force crude oil prices up to $18-$20 a barrel this year, and perhaps

Mexico expects airlines and ocean carriers to be best at moving cargo for the duty-free, in-bond pla

Fiber-Optic Expansion NEW YORK - GTE Laboratories said its scientists have found a way to do

Platou Buys Ship Ordered by SankoOSLO, Norway - R.S. Platou of Oslo purchased a ship origina

The insurance crisis that has made many types of liability coverage difficult or impossible to get,

Pfizer Inc. announced that its food additive petition for a new high- intensity sweetener discovered

Port of Seattle commissioners said the Inland Waters Coalition can use port facilities to hold a pub

Report on Chernobyl VIENNA, Austria - Nuclear industry experts from more than 50 countries b

General Motors Corp. is offering new incentives aimed at urging white-collar employees to resign, a

Sales of existing homes rose 1.8 percent to an annual rate of 3.45 million last month in the first i

About 99 percent of California's farmers use at least some of the state's 3,635 registered pesticide