Capital Cities-ABC will take an extraordinary charge...

Capital Cities-ABC will take an extraordinary charge of about $14 million in the third quarter for the cost of settling litigation involving its Kansas City Star Co. subsidiary . . . China had a record harvest of summer grain this year of 93 million tons, up from the previous record of 92 million in 1984, the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries announced . . . The Investment Company Institute reports that the assets of the nation’s 362 money-market mutual funds fell $95.2 million in the week ended Sept. 3.