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...Texas raider ran into a totally determined foe in Unocal Chairman Fred Hartley. His company managed to repel Pickens primarily with a $3.6 billion offer to buy up part of its outstanding stock for $72 a share, compared with the raider's bid of $54. Ordinarily Pickens would have responded by simply cashing in his 12% share of the company and walking away with a fat profit. Unocal made him exempt from the offer, however, which was a daring strategy since companies generally presume that the law requires them to treat all stockholders equally. Yet in a surprising reversal...
...groups has come largely from China and from a pro-Western organization, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which includes Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines. Pressure on the Administration to provide U.S. aid has been spearheaded by Congressman Stephen Solarz, a New York Democrat. A strong foe of funding the contras in Nicaragua, Solarz considers the two non-Communist resistance groups in Kampuchea the real "freedom fighters." He helped persuade the House Foreign Affairs Committee to recommend $5 million in aid to those groups...
Toleration does not, however, translate into esteem, though there seems to be much less hysteria about Moon now than there was in the 1970s. California Cult Foe Lowell D. Streiker thinks Moon's imprisonment may strengthen the loyalties of disciples, "but it doesn't help in recruitment or in image building." An even stronger view is taken by Anson Shupe of the University of Texas at Arlington, an expert on the movement. He sees a loss of momentum in the Moon cult, viewing it as an organization in disarray, pouring "millions of dollars down the drain" and unable to hold...
...Spokesman Larry Speakes predicted that the coup would not have a major effect on Washington's close relations with Khartoum. Said a State Department official: "The demonstrations provided the release for a kind of pent-up antagonism that took on a momentum of its own." Within hours, Libya, a foe of the Nimeiri regime, became the first country to recognize Sudan's new military leaders. Despite this recognition, Western diplomats in Cairo said they were hopeful that the leaders of the 60,000-man Sudanese army would not radically shift away from Nimeiri's pro-Western outlook...
Sometimes Johnson raged at the ignorance of the foe. "They don't realize what they are losing out there. They don't realize what is happening to them. They have no realistic picture of the war." Somebody...