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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wheeling-Pittsburgh, according to papers filed last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The 1.7 million shares he acquired had a market value of $13.5 million on the day he paid the $100,000 for them, Dec. 31. Lubensky bought the stock for the lower price from a friend, Wheeling Chairman Allen Paulson, who resigned a week later. Paulson apparently intends to use the virtual giveaway as an income-tax write-off. SEC officials said the deal was legal, but an IRS spokesman said it would arouse scrutiny at the agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEALS: Big Steel for Small Change | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...backed out because he couldn't get an American distribution deal, and I was in despair. Nothing was coming to me from the studios, and I decided to make a break from Hollywood. Richard Boyle, the guy a lot of the film is based on, was a friend. On the way to the airport one day, he gave me some notes. "Here, you might like this," he said. I read the sketches of his trips to El Salvador, and my mind clicked. "This is it," I said. "I am going to make Salvador. It's cheap. It's close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver Stone: My Brilliant Career | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...channel the rage in me." Stone made a short film for Scorsese's class called Last Year in Viet Nam, about a vet wandering the New York streets; in another, Michael and Marie, Oliver's father played the victim. "Oliver was alienated, sarcastic and brooding," says his film-school friend Stanley Weiser, who is collaborating with Stone on a script about Wall Street crime. "A real macho man who carried the torture of Viet Nam with him but never talked about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

Dawn Ashworth, 15, left a friend's house last July to walk to her home in Enderby, a village in England's East Midlands. She never made it. Two days | later her body was found; she had been raped and strangled. Soon after, police arrested a 17-year-old youth in connection with that killing and an earlier, similar murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dna Prints | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...depths of reading period the value of my old friend the 'Muffin has finally been driven home in the caffeine-slurping vacuum that was once my brain. Gone are the 79 cent days in personal study paradise...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: A Tragic Mug'n | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

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