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Artukovic took advantage of U.S. cold-war hostility toward Yugoslavia, among other things, to fend off extradition requests that began in 1951. He used false papers to emigrate to the U.S. in 1948, after first traveling to Italy, Switzerland and Ireland. Artukovic lived in California until his 1984 arrest and worked as a bookkeeper. The extradition order came less than an hour after U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist denied the aged Nazi's request for a stay. Unless his health prevents him from being tried for his crimes, his fate in Yugoslavia could be execution...
Sixty percent of the people in Chile make less than $40 a month. There is 30 percent unemployment and absolutely no welfare, not even unemployment or health insurance. Food is shared communally to fend off starvation. The military does not dare enter the barrios, which are almost in a state of civil war. The slumdwellers have organized themselves and send out groups to ambush patrolling soldiers. But the poor have nothing, neither food nor guns, only their rage and their stones...
...milestone when General Electric bought RCA for more than $6 billion in what is the biggest acquisition ever of a nonoil firm. Just blocks away, W.R. Grace, the chemical producer and retail-store giant, said it would buy back almost $600 million of its stock in a move to fend off a possible takeover. In Houston, Texaco found itself fighting for its life after a judge affirmed that the third-largest U.S. oil producer would have to pay more than $11 billion in damages for derailing a 1984 merger between Pennzoil and Getty. And in New Jersey, GAF, a middle...
...much as 25%. CBS was emphatic that the deal with Tisch was entirely friendly. "A mutual love affair," said Senior Vice President William Lilley III. "We want this guy. We welcome this guy." The partnership makes Tisch a major player at CBS and may help the company fend off hostile takeover bids, at least temporarily...
...same token, Pickens said in a heavy Texas twang, he would do nothing contrary to the interests of his own stockholders to fend off a hostile takeover attempt...