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...women, the ad alarmed health groups because it seemed to give underage readers tips on how to redeem a coupon for free cigarettes. The ad was lambasted last week before the House subcommittee on transportation and hazardous materials, which is considering a tobacco-ad ban. James Johnston, the new chairman of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, has apologized for the ad. Said he: "It will never run again...
Britain's giant National Westminster P.L.C. likes to advertise itself as the "Action Bank." Last week the action made front-page headlines when four of the bank's top executives, including chairman Lord Boardman, resigned. The NatWest shake-up, unprecedented in British banking, followed a July 20 report by the Department of Trade and Industry that accused the institution's investment-bank subsidiary of having "deliberately misled" stock-market investors and broken British corporate laws. The report said the wrongdoing occurred when a $1.35 billion stock offering by an employment-services company called Blue Arrow flopped and NatWest ended...
...politicians -- especially Middle Eastern politicians -- are wont to do, Shamir was fudging the facts. Jamil Tarifi, a West Bank lawyer associated with the P.L.O., confirmed the talks and implied that he would report on the meeting to P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat. By meeting with Tarifi, insisted Labor Party official Yossi Beilin, Shamir made the P.L.O. leader implicitly part of the bargaining process. Said Beilin: "That there is negotiation with the P.L.O. is quite clear...
...Chairman and Chief Executive Officer: J. Richard Munro...
...Vice Chairman: Gerald M. Levin...