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Discredited and discarded just a couple of years ago, "junk bonds" are back. With $29.5 billion in new public issues sold so far this year, investment firms expect to easily surpass the record junk bond sales of $31.9 billion set in the giddy market of 1986.
At the outskirts of this city's largest Mexican community, just east of downtown, is the world's largest tortilla factory, where blaring machines and uniformed workers cut, press and bake more than 1.2 million dozen flour and corn tortillas a day. Although the factory operates around the clock and recently expanded production to 24 lines from 8, it still cannot meet the explosive demand here and nationwide.
NEW YORK CITY CHOOSING A CANDIDATE IN AN UNUSUAL RITUAL In a high school auditorium with four adding machines, two laptop computers, enough paper ballots for eight rounds of voting and 24 vote-watchers standing by, nearly 1,000 Manhattan Democrats will gather tonight to nominate a new Congressman -- or woman -- in a ritual of democracy little used and even less understood. B3. NEW SECURITY MEASURES FOR SCHOOL Metal detectors will be put into use next week at South Shore High School in Brooklyn, school officials announced yesterday, following the death Monday of a South Shore student who was stabbed by a classmate in a hallway fight. B3. PRESSURES FORCE HOMELESS PLAN Behind Mayor David N. Dinkins's decision to press forward with an overhaul of the homeless shelter system, after months of apparent indecision and internal administration bickering, are a set of pressures that grew steadily in recent weeks. B3. Police officer indicted. B4. REGION DISORDER IN THE COURTS As lawyers, prisoners and tense family members waited -- and waited -- for action in their cases, lawyers for Westchester County and corrections officers awaited for a judge's ruling in a dispute that has drastically slowed the operations of the courthouse in White Plains. "It has delayed justice, delayed the process," said Judge Joseph K. West, the supervising judge of the criminal courts for the 9th Judicial District. "I don't take sides on whether the correction officers should or should not get a raise. But we need to have normalcy here and we're not getting it at this time." B5. SUING FOR CLEANER AIR Six environmental groups said yesterday that they intended to sue the Transportation Departments of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, arguing that the agencies have ignored Federal laws requiring them to reduce auto pollution, putting $20 billion in Federal transportation aid at stake. B5. FREE TO A GOOD HOME: NUCLEAR FUEL The new owners of the Shoreham nuclear power plant on Long Island are looking for ways to get rid of $36 million worth of radioactive fuel. Among the options: shipping it to France for reprocessing or to Mexico, where it could be used in a reactor that is to start operating next year. B5. A SKATER FIGHTS FOR HER RIGHTS For Laurie Palmer, skating down the street on her Rollerblades has been an aerobic release from her duties as a mother, grandmother and intensive-care nurse. Now, it seems, it may also become an exercise in civil rights. Ms. Palmer was arrested last month in Manchester, Conn., and charged with disorderly conduct because she refused to skate on the sidewalk of a four-lane road. B5. Official accused of sexual harassment. B5. About New York by Michael T. Kaufman A1 Chronicle B8
Government prosecutors presented evidence in court here today that some of the nation's top political leaders had formed a secret alliance with mobsters to raise money for the governing Liberal Democratic Party and silence right-wing protesters. The prosecutors made the charges at the opening of a trial of three business executives involved in a bribery scandal that has engulfed Japan's political establishment since last spring.
The Economy Congress voted to regulate soaring cable television prices, sending the controversial bill to President Bush and daring him to carry out his threatened veto in the face of commanding votes for the measure in both the House and Senate. But consumers are unlikely to see an immediate effect from the bill. [ Page D1. ] Builders broke ground on new homes in August at the fastest pace since March. The annual rate of 1,237,000 was 10.4 percent higher than in July and was the biggest gain in 18 months. [ D6. ]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 23, 1992, covering September 23, 1992.
Billy Ray Cyrus
Eric Clapton
Pearl Jam
Garth Brooks
Bobby Brown
1992Angel Garza, Mexican wrestler[†]
Humberto Garza Solano is a Mexican professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Angel. He is one-half of Los Garza with his cousin Berto, where they are the current AAA World Tag Team Champions. He is also a member of Legado Del Fantasma.
1992Ivar Ivask, Estonian poet and scholar (born 1927)[†]
Ivar Vidrik Ivask was an Estonian poet and literary scholar.
1992Glendon Swarthout, American author and academic (born 1918)[†]
Glendon Fred Swarthout was an American writer and novelist.
1992James Van Fleet, American general (born 1892)[†]
General James Alward Van Fleet was a United States Army officer who served during World War I, World War II and the Korean War. Van Fleet was a native of New Jersey, who was raised in Florida and graduated from the United States Military Academy. He served as a regimental, divisional and corps commander during World War II and as the commanding general of United States Army and other United Nations forces during the Korean War.
In 1992, the world population was approximately 5,505,989,816 people[†]