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There was still an unseemly coda: the financial settlement. Through her lawyers she entered negotiations with her in-laws. Eventually Christina Onassis, the shipper's daughter and his only major heir, reportedly decided to get her hated stepmother out of her life with a settlement of $20 million...
...young producer told an interviewer for Women's Wear Daily that "right now I have no interest in getting into the Seagram business." Four years later, though, he did just that. In 1986, Edgar Sr. proclaimed Efer his heir as head of the company. He was chosen over his older brother Samuel, who in 1975 was the center of a sensational kidnapping case; one of the two captors claimed Samuel had arranged the abduction himself to extort ransom money from his father. The family believed Samuel's angry denials...
...Wilson? By most appearances, she has everything going for her. She has the name. As the youngest daughter of Pat Brown, the revered 1960s Governor who turned 89 last month, and as the kid sister of Jerry Brown, the erratically innovative Governor from 1975 to 1982, Kathleen, 48, is heir to California's most prominent political dynasty. And she has the money, having assiduously raised funds at $25 kaffeeklatsches and $500-a-plate banquets for the past 18 months. In the most recent campaign disclosure, Brown reported nearly $4 million in reserve, in contrast to $58,000 for her Democratic...
...credit, the A.N.C. is cautious about adding to the nation's debt burden. Thabo Mbeki, who will probably be First Deputy President and heir apparent to Mandela, said in an interview with TIME last week that the incoming government has two immediate goals. First, it intends to write a budget that will reassure the international financial community that the A.N.C. is not going to borrow heavily. Second, it hopes to round up early commitments of aid money from friendly governments. "It will be very good if we can generate a billion dollars from around the world," Mbeki said, "that...
...strategic gambit of vast importance. At the depth of the Cold War, Richard Nixon and Zhou Enlai saw how china and America could work together. America's involvement with china strengthened the hand of those who sought to turn away from the excesses of Maoism, including Zhou's heir, Den Xiaoping. Almost until the time of his death, Nixon sought to do what he could to maintain good relations between these two great nations...