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...them as a woolly American phenomenon -- interesting at a distance but unacceptable at close range. Last week Sir James Goldsmith forced them to take another look by launching a surprise $21 billion hostile bid for B.A.T Industries (1988 revenues: $29 billion). Backed by investors Kerry Packer, the Australian industrialist, and Jacob Rothschild, the British financier, Goldsmith plans to break up the sprawling London-based conglomerate and "liberate" far-flung divisions that sell everything from cigarettes (Kool, Viceroy) to insurance in more than 40 countries...
Other recent speakers include Canadian satirist Garry Trudeau, journalist Ted Koppel, industrialist Lee A. Ioccoca and newspaper publisher Katherine Graham...
With a background of experience in Washington and service already honored by Harvard, the new Kennedy School dean starts off his job offering a University professorship to a wealthy industrialist. "I'm glad Dean Meese gave me this opportunity to serve Harvard," says E. Robert Wallach...
Americans did not spare themselves. Washington sent eight planeloads of official aid, plus a U.S. Air Force C-141 carrying supplies that left from Italy. Private donors gave millions of dollars' worth of supplies and equipment that required more than twelve planes to ferry them to Armenia. Industrialist Armand Hammer donated $500,000, and Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca announced a fund drive. In Chicago, one of five major Armenian population centers around the U.S., the local community raised more than $800,000 and collected 20,000 lbs. of supplies, from blankets to medicine. The Armenian Relief Society raised more...
Among planes reaching Yerevan yesterday was one carrying Armand Hammer, the American industrialist who has done business with the Soviets for decades and helped after the Chernobyl disaster. Tass said he brought medical equipment and a check for $1 million from the World Vision Organization...