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...Frontier life proves a stern test for believers and infidels alike. The only serene person in the tiny settlement is John Chapman, who is a disciple of the Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg and labors under an angel's commandment to plant apple trees. He will later enter American legend under the name Johnny Appleseed, but for now he serves as a useful emissary between the whites and the nearby encampment of Delaware Indians. The local chief has made a treaty of peace, but he may not be able to restrain his warriors. It is 1812, the British are massing...
...frills flights to 49 cities. Yet even though it now has routes to London and California, the Newark-based company is still primarily an east-of-the- Mississippi phenomenon. Last week People took a giant step toward becoming a national airline by outbidding Texas Air to buy Denver's Frontier Airlines for about $300 million...
Only two weeks ago, it looked as if Frontier would have a quite different fate. Texas Air Chairman Frank Lorenzo had offered to buy 60% of the outstanding stock of Frontier Holdings, the airline's parent company, for $20 a share, topping a $17-a-share bid made by four of Frontier's five unions. Frontier's employees, though, were anxious to avoid dealing with Lorenzo, whom they consider anti-union. In 1981, he bought Continental Airlines and two years later declared bankruptcy in order to get out of costly union contracts. In August, TWA's unions joined forces with...
...hectic series of negotiations between People and Frontier began when People Founder Donald Burr called Joseph O'Gorman, Frontier's president, about a deal. While on vacation in Monterey, Calif., Burr met with O'Gorman for two days. The talks then shifted to Denver's United Bank Tower and finally to New York's Chase Plaza. After receiving labor's blessing, Frontier's management opted for Burr's $24-a-share offer...
...Nicaragua from Honduras and positioned an additional 3,000 along the border. Last week the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry charged that the border forces were poised to invade Nicaragua with the support of the Honduran army. In the south, where the FDN has opened a second front along Nicaragua's frontier with Costa Rica, there were reports of fighting last week between contras and Sandinista troops. The contras' aim: to cut the Pan-American Highway, which bisects Nicaragua, disrupt the economy and prepare the way for an urban rising against the regime in Managua...