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...previous Saturday, at Santiago's Circulo Español, the city's largest club, an overflow crowd of 1,500 gathered, ostensibly to honor Christian Democratic Party President Gabriel Valdés. A former Foreign Minister under President Eduardo Frei, Valdés, 63, used the occasion to unveil a new coalition of Chile's five main parties, excluding the Communists. Calling itself the Democratic Alliance, the group demanded that Pinochet give way to a provisional government leading to elections within 18 months...
...steamed ahead 260 points, to 1036, the largest point gain in any two-month period ever. On Nov. 3 came the biggest one-day gain: 43.41, pushing the Dow to 1065.49. That broke the old record of 1051 set a decade earlier, in January 1973. A day later came the largest single day's trading volume: 149,350,000 shares, a load handled almost effortlessly by new computerized trading systems at the New York Stock Exchange and drastically modifying the definitions of what were "light," "moderate" and "heavy" trading days. From August through June, an average of 86 million...
...consortium of minority foreign partners expect to begin drilling on two 415-sq.-mi. tracts in the South China Sea. Said Hammer, who celebrated his success in the banquet hall of the Peking Hotel while a Chinese orchestra played Turkey in the Straw: "This is one of the largest unexplored basins in the world. We are very proud...
...winning the contracts for Occidental, Hammer has succeeded in becoming accepted by Premier Zhao Ziyang as "China's old friend." Last year Hammer completed 2½ years of negotiations for a study that may lead to joint development of the world's largest open-pit coal mine in Shanxi province, west of Peking...
During Craft's eight-month tenure, KMBC'S news ratings rose from second place to first in the six-station market, which is the nation's 27th largest. Nonetheless, the station hired consultants to test her appeal further. Perhaps the most damaging evidence against Metromedia was an audio tape of a research discussion in which Steve Meacham, a Media Associates employee, said to a group of local viewers, "Let's spend 30 seconds destroying Christine Craft. Is she a mutt...