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...Institute of Politics (IOP) could not have found anyone more involved with the current political scene than Richard Hatcher. Now serving part-time as a senior advisor to Presidential hopeful Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, Hatcher was the vice chairman of Jesse Jackson's national campaign this year and chairman of the Jackson campaign...
However, Hatcher chose to get involved with Jackson's run for the presidency and was appointed chairman of the 1984 campaign. Since then, he has served as vice chairman of the Democratic party and helped to form the Black Caucus of the Democratic party. In short, he says, "I have been very involved in the effort to increase the presence of Blacks at all levels of the Democratic party...
They have suddenly become the airline industry's most surprising partners. Frank Lorenzo, chairman of Texas Air, oversees two carriers -- Eastern and Continental -- that are plagued by union strife, deep operating losses and sloppy service. Jan Carlzon, president of Scandinavian Airlines System, pilots a peaceful, profitable, smooth-running fleet. Yet last week the two men shook hands on a deal billed as the industry's first global alliance among major international carriers. For up to $50 million, SAS will buy a 10% stake in Texas Air and gain greater access to the U.S. market by leasing the rights to three...
...week's end Lorenzo was working on another bold move. Sources close to Texas Air confirmed that both TWA chairman Carl Icahn and New York developer Donald Trump were negotiating with Lorenzo to buy all or part of Eastern. Trump's particular interest is the shuttle connecting Boston, New York City and Washington...
Such results have had an inevitable impact on the networks' bottom lines. Profits have plummeted at all but NBC. Each of the three networks has been taken over by a new corporate owner -- ABC by Capital Cities Communications, NBC by General Electric, and CBS by Loews chairman Laurence Tisch -- that has instituted severe cost-cutting measures. Some 3,500 people , from technicians to network censors, have been laid off at the Big Three in the past two years. Although some further postelection cuts are anticipated at CBS News and NBC News, the bulk of the reducing is probably over...