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Since Elisha had just dispatched the heir apparent of the nation's seventh largest company, his attempt to avoid explaining the dismissal was akin to a man trying dodge raindrops in a downpour. Questioned persistently, he finally said Walter lacked "intellectual leadership," then paraphrased Mark Twain: "The difference between president and vice president is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." Within hours, Walter's attorney, Bob Barnett, was holed up with AT&T executives, negotiating a golden goodbye. Walter is owed some $25.8 million under the terms of his contract...
...being swept aside by the cruel winds of change. Yet Woolworth suffered not from forces beyond its control so much as from generations of five-and-dime management of the 118-year-old chain. In the '60s the company was late in following its customers to malls, and its attempt at a discount chain, Woolco, lasted just 20 years. Similarly, in the early '90s, Woolworth homed in on mall locations just as shoppers were abandoning mall shopping in droves...
...negotiated peace terms with Cambodia's government. On Saturday, his alleged captors said via their clandestine radio station that Pol Pot had been sentenced to life for his crimes against the Cambodian people and that the Khmer Rouge movement would be terminated. The broadcast seemed to be an attempt by surviving members of the Khmer Rouge to distance themselves from its violent past -- and perhaps to save their own hides by fingering their former boss...
JERUSALEM: In the Middle East, there is a peace process again, thanks to Prime Minister Netanyahu's new resolve. In a joint announcement, Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy and Palestinian Planning Minister Nabil Shaath said that bilateral committees will attempt to get the process moving again after a four-month interruption. In the wake of Friday's near-meltdown over the Jerusalem mayor's plans to allow a new settlement on disputed land, Benjamin Netanyahu's tough response put the talks back into motion. "The Prime Minister was very clear about saying said he would do his best to prevent...
WASHINGTON: After three of Newt Gingrich's top lieutenants apologized for their involvement in a foiled coup attempt against him, Republicans said the episode is in the past and that the party should press ahead with the GOP agenda. The three-hour heart to heart, which Henry Bonilla of Texas described as "filled with emotion, filled with passion," ended without calls for the heads of Dick Armey, Tom DeLay and John Boehner, figures implicated in the plot along with Bill Paxon, who stepped-down last week. The lieutenants were let off the hook despite a particularly damaging account by DeLay...