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...Part II. The Australian-born owner of the New York Post, Chicago Sun-Times and scores of other newspapers, magazines and TV stations announced he was buying the other half of Fox from Denver Oilman Marvin Davis. Price: $325 million cash plus real estate in Los Angeles, Pebble Beach, Calif., and Aspen, Colo...
JUDGMENT AGAINST. Jerry Falwell, 52, Fundamentalist preacher and Moral Majority leader; ordered to pay $5,000 to his former Bible school classmate Jerry Sloan; in Sacramento, Calif. On a TV talk show last year, Falwell promised that sum to Homosexual Activist Sloan if he could prove that Falwell had publicly denounced a gay church where Sloan once served as a minister. Sloan produced a 1984 videotape of Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour, in which he referred to the gay church as "part of a vile and satanic system." Said Sloan: "It's the first time the man's been...
DIED. Michael Fragosa, a three-year-old boy afflicted with AIDS; in Loma Linda, Calif. Michael had contracted the ailment at birth from his mother, who died last year, and spent much of his life in hospitals. As his condition worsened, he asked to talk to President Reagan about the hungry children of Africa. Before Michael died, Reagan sent him a letter that said, "Your concern for others, even as you struggle with your health, is awe-inspiring...
...When someone calls you a thief in public, you have to respond," Jobs declared. "Maybe they want to parade me naked through the square." His way of responding was to call a press conference at his spacious but spare home in Woodside, Calif. Dressed in faded blue jeans, a wool sweater and tennis shoes (no socks), Jobs called the lawsuit "absurd" and insisted that he never intended to steal any of his old firm's proprietary technology...
Some basic details about Jobs' new company came to light last week. Bearing the clearly symbolic name Next, it will be located in Sunnyvale, Calif., and will focus on the education market. To bankroll the venture, Jobs, who has sold 1.35 million Apple shares this year, could dispose of some or all of his remaining stock...