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...odds, the company has launched an all-out public relations blitz designed to win over local opponents and to sway Meese. After last week's board meeting, Chapman scheduled private meetings with leaders of the paper's unions and Mayor Coleman Young, who has already hinted that he may abandon his opposition to the plan. Free Press Publisher David Lawrence triggered a ground swell of support with a front-page editorial asking readers to write in what they would miss most about the paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Game of Chicken in Detroit | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

Arias had not waited for the summit to chastise those whom he accused of hindering the peace plan. In a letter to three top contra leaders who fled Nicaragua several years ago and now reside in Costa Rica, the soft-spoken President demanded that they abandon their rebel activities or leave his country. The three, Alfonso Robelo, Alfredo Cesar and Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, sit on the six-member board that directs the contras' political affairs and produces a steady stream of anti-Sandinista propaganda. The next day Arias counterbalanced his anti-contra blast with a blunt four-page letter accusing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America Giving Peace Another Chance | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

Tung also claims that the Wharton School offered her a settlement, which sources claimed to exceed $10,000, if she would abandon her discrimination charges. Philadelphia's Equal Opportunity Commission is investigating those charges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 1/8/1988 | See Source »

Lynch remains convinced that America is returning to competitive shape. To abandon the stock market now would be to lose faith in those bustling factories, offices and stores he inspects every week. He believed in the long- term value of U.S. companies before the crash. He still does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up, Up, then Doooown | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

Musical humor is no joke to perform, but it can be very funny, and Oil City Symphony, now playing at the downtown branch of Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, is very funny indeed. Whether grimly trying to keep up with the quickening abandon of a mock Hungarian czardas, or haplessly segueing from Verdi's "Anvil Chorus" to Iron Butterfly's In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, or just getting down and funky with a little tune of their own called Beaver Ball at the Bug Club, the Oil City Symphony lets the good times roll, and in the process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: In The Sweet, Funny By and By OIL CITY SYMPHONY | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

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