Word: concerns
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...just cannot seem to take no for an answer. For the third time in less than a year, Ronald Perelman, chairman of the Revlon Group, is reviving his efforts to take over Gillette. Last week Perelman offered $5.4 billion in cash and securities for the Boston-based razor-blade concern. That is nearly $800 million more than his last bid, in June, which the company rejected as inadequate...
...Despite concern in Congress over the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf, Americans appear to be strongly in favor of that policy. In a poll taken for TIME last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman,* supporters of the use of U.S. military escorts for reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers outnumbered opponents by almost 2 to 1. Some of those sentiments, however, are based on erroneous information: 85% said the escorts were important to "protect oil shipments going to the U.S." In fact, most of the petroleum products carried in the U.S.-escorted vessels are bound for Western Europe and Japan...
...Deputy Chief of Correspondents Jack E. White, it was a gratifying -- and unsettling -- week. Usually, White, who took up his present duties this past June, spends his time supervising the 51 correspondents in the magazine's ten domestic bureaus across the country. This week he had a special concern. White was the driving force behind our reports on the deteriorating conditions faced by inner-city blacks on the 20th anniversary of the riots that tore apart ghettos from Detroit to Newark. "The inner cities burned during that long, hot summer," says White. "But the conditions that sparked the turmoil, rather...
...most damaging revelations concern the extent and nature of Cuba's intelligence and military operations. According to Aspillaga, Cuba's intelligence service, with a total of 2,086 employees, grew substantially more active after the U.S. invasion of Grenada. He said Cuba has steadily acquired U.S. technology, in violation of the American trade ban, through Panamanian Strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega, who reaped millions from the transactions. Noriega, he said, helped Cuba send arms to Nicaragua and to rebel groups in El Salvador, Honduras and Colombia...
Contra figures have voiced concern about the administration's commitment to their cause and about statements by the administration that have sent conflicting signals about its intentions...