The October 17, 1992 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♎. It was the 290 day of the year. President of the United States was George Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 32 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, October 17, 2024, 355 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, October 17, 2025, in 9 days. You have lived for 12,043 days, or about 289,052 hours, or about 17,343,144 minutes, or about 1,040,588,640 seconds.
17th of October 1992 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on October 17, 1992
Dinkins's Tactic: Start Spreading the News
Date: 18 October 1992
By James C. McKinley Jr
James McKinley
Mayor David N. Dinkins's strategy for his re-election campaign next year became clearer last week when he appointed a political consultant to his cabinet and gave him a mandate to improve his public-relations efforts. At the same time, Mr. Dinkins announced that Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch Jr., the political adviser who masterminded the Mayor's victory in 1989, will go directly to head the Dinkins re-election campaign after he finishes his stint as deputy director of Gov. Bill Clinton's Presidential campaign in New York. Mr. Lynch was on a leave of absence from his city post.
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Oregonian Endorses Clinton
Date: 18 October 1992
The Portland Oregonian, the oldest daily newspaper published west of the Mississippi, endorsed a Democrat for the first time in its 142-year history, when it called for the election of Gov. Bill Clinton. Sunday's Oregonian called him "controlled, organized, coherent -- a doer."
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OCT. 11-17: Political Prodding Suspected; State Department Rushed To Search Clinton Records
Date: 18 October 1992
By Eric Schmitt
Eric Schmitt
The State Department said last week that it had violated its own regulations by taking a routine request from news organizations for Bill Clinton's consular records and giving the search undue urgency. A State Department spokesman, Richard Boucher, initially defended the department's response, saying that journalists had wanted a timely answer to requests for Mr. Clinton's visa, passport, draft and citizenship papers. The Government, which receives more than 4,000 such requests for information a year, typically responds on a first-come, first-served basis. The next day, Mr. Boucher said that "low-level" State Department officials had erred by expediting the request, which is rarely done.
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INQUIRY IS URGED ON LEAKS BY JURY
Date: 18 October 1992
By Matthew L. Wald
Matthew Wald
The Federal judge who approved a plea agreement in the Rocky Flats bomb factory pollution case has asked the Justice Department for "an appropriate and immediate investigation" of whether grand jury secrecy was breached. Since the plea agreement was completed, in June, several grand jurors have told The New York Times and have been quoted by other news organizations as saying that a majority of them favored more extensive indictments but were blocked by the United States Attorney, Michael Norton.
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THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidate's Record; The Matter of Trust: Clinton's Big Burden
Date: 18 October 1992
By Michael Kelly
Michael Kelly
On Tuesday night Vice President Dan Quayle introduced into the language the phrase "to pull a Clinton," which he used to mean roughly "to lie, to distort, to waffle or to slide around the truth." By Wednesday morning the phrase had already made its way from politics to the populace. A trucker in Maryland was asked by a reporter if he had ever broken the regulations on hours driven without rest. "No," said the trucker, and then caught himself. "Well, I don't want to pull a Clinton here. Truth is, I have broken them sometimes."
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A President For Amgen
Date: 17 October 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Amgen Inc., a biotech pharmaceuticals company, said today that it had named an executive at MCI as president, chief operating officer and a director, effective Nov. 10. The executive, Kevin W. Sharer, 44 years old, is now an executive vice president of the MCI Communications Corporation, as well as president of that company's business markets division. Before joining MCI in 1985 he worked for General Electric.
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COLUMBIA GAS AND SHELL SETTLEMENT IS APPROVED
Date: 17 October 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Federal Bankruptcy Judge Helen S. Balick in Wilmington, Del., yesterday approved a settlement between the Columbia Gas System and the Shell Oil Company in a dispute over Columbia's pipeline subsidiary, Columbia L.N.G. The companies agreed to withdraw their nominees to each other's boards and allow the election of Daniel L. Bell Jr., a Columbia Gas senior vice president, to the Columbia L.N.G. board.
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CAROLCO SUFFERS SETBACK IN ITS REORGANIZATION
Date: 17 October 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Carolco Pictures Inc. has suffered another setback in its reorganization effort by missing a bond interest payment. The film company said yesterday that it had failed to make its interest payment Thursday on $49.6 million principal amount of its 10 percent debentures of 2006. The terms of the bonds provide a 30-day grace period for the payment. "This is as close as the company has ever been to bankruptcy," said John Levin, analyst with Credit Research. "Even if it makes this payment, Carolco will probably miss its Dec. 1 payment. The company needs a fix, such as a large equity investment." Carolco also said that it could not pay dividends on its preferred stock. Also yesterday, Standard & Poor's lowered its rating on Carolco's senior debt to CC from CCC-.
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ICAHN IN GROUP THAT CUT SOUTHLAND STAKE TO 4.8%
Date: 17 October 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
A group including the New York investor Carl C. Icahn has cut its stake in the Southland Corporation to about 4.8 percent from about 5.3 percent by selling shares worth about $7 million. Mr. Icahn's group sold 2.25 million common shares of the Dallas operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores between Oct. 5 and Oct. 13 at $3.41 and $3.44 a share, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Icahn group now holds the equivalent of 19.8 million common including warrants to purchase common shares. In August, the convenience store operator announced plans to eliminate 1,800 corporate jobs as part of its restructuring. It lost $17.9 million in the second quarter.
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KRAFT GETS BIG SHARE OF NORWEGIAN CHOCOLATE MAKER
Date: 17 October 1992
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Kraft General Foods, a unit of Philip Morris Companies, said yesterday that it had received more than two-thirds of the outstanding shares of Freia Marabou A.S., a Norwegian chocolate and candy maker, within five days of the start of its tender offer, leaving regulatory approval from the Norwegian Government the only obstacle to completion of the deal. Freia Marabou is the largest manufacturer of chocolate and sugar-based candy and snacks in the Nordic area.
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