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Date: 12 February 1990
By Robert D. McFadden
Robert
LEAD: The hair has gone gray and the boxer's shoulders are shells under the awkward jacket now. The booming voice that had roared for justice in the 1960's became a gentle echo in his lonely cell long ago. But amid the many perils of South Africa's future, one thing seemed clear yesterday: the years of imprisonment had not broken Nelson R.
Date: 12 February 1990
By Neil A. Lewis, Special To the New York Times
Neil Lewis
LEAD: There is little in the personal and political history of F. W. de Klerk to suggest that he would be the South African leader to make the bold gestures that have set his country on a course of uncertainty and hope.
Date: 13 February 1990
By Walter Goodman
Walter Goodman
LEAD: The case of Andy Rooney is like a multi-vehicle crash that brings traffic to a stop. Unfettered comment ran smack into minority sensibilities; the public relations needs of a network collided with the prerogatives of one of its most popular performers; a news organization's obligation to openness came up against the medium's role as a binder of society.
Date: 13 February 1990
LEAD: Score 10 on the common sense scale for David Burke, the president of CBS News, for his handling of the newest outbreak of slighting words. America's court of public opinion has performed unevenly on this explosive subject. ''Off with his head,'' it sometimes insists after an egregious public insult.
Date: 12 February 1990
By Craig R. Whitney, Special To the New York Times
Craig Whitney
LEAD: All over Eastern Europe, the formerly all-powerful ''official press'' is in even bigger trouble than the Communist parties in whose name it has been speaking for 40 years.
Date: 13 February 1990
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-17 Equal sizes of U.S. and Soviet forces in Europe proposed by President Gorbachev were rejected by President Bush, who insisted that the U.S. have 30,000 more troops than Moscow. Page A1
Date: 12 February 1990
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-17 Nelson Mandela is a free man. After 27 years, he walked out of prison and then promptly urged his supporters at home and abroad to increase their pressure against the white Government in Pretoria. Page A1
Date: 13 February 1990
LEAD: Shares in the Hilton Hotels Corporation closed $2.875 higher today, at $64.625, with 587,500 shares changing hands after a published report said an investment group including Alfred Checci, the chairman of Northwest Airlines, was contemplating a bid.
Date: 13 February 1990
Reuters
LEAD: Sizeler Property Investors Inc. said that through last Friday it had been tendered 2.2 million shares of Property Trust of America, or 54.1 percent, in its $11.59-a-share bid. Sizeler said it extended its offer for 2.9 million sahres of Property Trust until March 9. The offer was extended pending an appeals court decision on whether the takeover could be completed between the two real estate investment trusts.
Date: 13 February 1990
LEAD: The Atlantic Richfield Company signed an agreement with Indalsa, which operates food stores and restaurants in Spain, to open 600 AM-PM Mini Markets in Spain and Portugal. According to the agreement, Atlantic Richfield will own 33 percent of a joint venture with Inalsa that will own, operate and franchise the AM-PM convenience stores, some of which will also sell gasoline.