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...Charter fishing-boat skipper; Miami...
...registration statement for the public sale of about 2 million Avis shares (25% of the total), which have a current market price of about $15 a share. He had already disclosed that he would use all of the 3.7 million shares he controlled to support amendments to the company charter that make tender offers all but impossible. One proposal would allow anyone holding more than 20% of Avis stock to veto a takeover. Even after the sale of the 2 million shares, Smith will hold 22% of the stock...
...that Nader says it will do. They may be right, but that still leaves room for positive accomplishments. The proposal is worth a try, especially if enacted with a "sunset" clause calling for the abolition of the agency after three years unless Congress takes positive action to renew its charter. This would eliminate the problem created by agencies that have outlived their usefulness, but that cannot be scuttled because they have acquired a few friends and no enemies...
...What did we do? We started to fight, to open the gates and allow our people to be saved from destruction. We started to fight to save our people. Now take [Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser] Arafat. What is his aim? He said in the so-called Palestinian charter that it was the destruction of the Jewish state. Israel must disappear. He wants to destroy a nation. Our aim is to save a people. When I am called a terrorist and Arafat is called a guerrilla, I think it is the apex of injustice...
Nashville. It's all been said before, but we'll repeat it for the umpteenth time: Nashville comes as close to breakthrough as a film can these days, and it will come to rub shoulders with 8 1/2, Grand Illusion and other charter members in the pantheon of cinema. Robert Altman reveals the bankruptcy of the American psyche without one blink of the eye, using the country music world of Nashville as his chosen microcosm. Lily Tomlin made a giant leap towards her current cover-story stardom in the role of the gospel singer who staves off Keith Carradine...