Stocks Decline in Quiet Pre-Holiday Session
New York stocks edged lower in a thin pre holiday session as telephone and electric utilities dominated activity. The Dow fell 3.15 to 1250.51 while volume on the NYSE slid to 62.71 million shares. AT&T led decliners, long term Treasuries mixed, and some utilities recovered losses from Thursday.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Treasury
American Telephone & Telegraph
At&t
Bell System
Public Service of
Indiana
Long Island Lighting
NatCan
Armco
NathGa
Aurich
Avnet
AveoCp
Ss NwstAir
Nynx Wi
BellSo Wi
PanAm
Citicrp
Bet Papl
Cmsat
PhilPet
Drest Rca
duPont
Exxon
Sears
Gensco
Tennco
Texaco
Getty
Textron
Gillette
Gdrich
Unocal
IBM
William
Firestone
la Rylty
First Walk
Aynids
Amer el Pwr
Robins AH
Amer Family
Flour Corp
Mary Kay
AMF
Inds
Rockwell Int
ARA
Foster Wh
McGraw Ed
Scoaind
Ashland Oil
ZIM Frort
MediaGn NT Avon
Galaxy Oil
Marion
Atlas Corp
Galv-Hou
Mark
Sthrn
Cold Bakr
Grhart Owen
Mesa Petr
Batg&fe
Ga Pacific
Mesa Roy
Bs Spectra Phy
BankAmer
Msa Ofshr
StrerComn
Bank of Va Bh
Trasamrica
Burroughs
NoAmCoal
Trico Ind Cabot Corp Hou
Tr Ohio Edison
TriSolnost
Hughes Tool
Occidental
Tucson el
Occint! A
Ingersoll
Occindtb
UnionPac
Coca Cola Me
Maris
Col Gas
United Tech
Comex
Lear Siegler
Lear Petri
Westnghie
LTV Corp
Whittaker
Duke Power
Levitz Hs
WilmsElec
Eastern G&f
Litton
Pittston
Kincaid Furniture Inc
Ladd Furniture Inc
Wheat First Securities, Inc
Ap- Magnet Bank
MCI
Miller Tech Isms
Pulaski Furniture
Famous Brands
Air Florida Systems
Westmoreland Coal
American Furniture
William Byrd Press
Apple Computer
Williams Industries
Flag
Bluefield Supply
la Us
Burke Parsons Be
Dominion Bankshares
Equinox Solar Inc. Iis
Figgie Intl Holdings
Ino
Fingermatrix
First Carolina
Fortune Systems
Glaxo Holdings
Space Shuttle Challenger Flight Delayed to February 3
NASA announced the Challenger mission would be postponed from January 30 to February 3 to replace all three auxiliary power units after fires damaged two units on Columbia. Investigators suspect a deformed washer in the fuel valve caused hydrazine leaks leading to the incidents. All three Columbia APUs were sent to Sundstrand Corp. for analysis.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
NASA
Challenger
Columbia
Spacelab
Discovery
Rocky Raab
Kennedy Space Center
Jim Kukowski
Washington
Sundstrand Corp
Rockford, Ill
Arafat vows PLO reorganization after Lebanese revolt
In Cairo Yasser Arafat pledged a complete reorganization of the PLO through leadership meetings, with a key session planned in Algiers in February. He cited the Tripoli rebellion and faced renewed calls for his ouster from Syrian-backed rebels and some PLO leaders while moving to balance Syrian influence and win Arab support.
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Cairo
Egypt
Yasser Arafat
PLO
Lebanon
Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
Hosni Mubarak
al Ahram
Tripoli
Palestine National Council
Algiers
Mubarak
Israel
North Yemen
Iraq
Algeria
Tunisia
North
Yemen
Yemen Arab Republic
Syria
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Commonwealth Edison
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Damascus
Beirut
al Fatah
Nimr Saleh
Estee Lauder
ESTEE
Nelson’s Ladles
Free Pitt
H.H
Grand Island, NY