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Since the ENA board's decision to sell, potential buyers have been lining up like antique dealers at an estate sale. Although Clark considers the News the crown jewel of the company, bidders seem more enticed by ENA's highly profitable television stations in Washington, Tucson, Oklahoma City, Austin and Mobile. (ENA also owns nine newspapers in California and New Jersey, and radio stations in Detroit.) Rumored potential suitors include CBS, Hearst, Washington Redskins Owner Jack Kent Cooke, the Tribune Co. and Wesray Corp. (headed by former Treasury Secretary William Simon). Another major contender is considered to be the Gannett...
...sacred well, once regarded by the Maya as the abode of their gods, had been a place for pilgrimage from 800 to 1500 A.D. Following the Spanish conquest, the gold-greedy conquistadores heard gaudy reports that the Indians had thrown gold, jewels and young virgins into the cenote to propitiate their deities. Nothing was ever found until 1904. Then American Archaeologist Edward H. Thompson, working with a steel bucket appended to a simple boom and derrick, and later with primitive deep-sea diving equipment, spent more than five years exploring the sinkhole. Thompson gradually brought up gold bells...
...Yugoslavia, an E.F. Hutton stockbroker by day, has mastered American directness and uses a different word: "Eurotrash. People say we are a little idle, a little too rich. I suppose it's true." After work or shopping, the teenage countesses and bejeaned barons gather at Club A, a jewel-box disco, to dance, gossip and compare invitations. "It's all a game to them," says a Columbia University business student, Jeffrey von der Schulenburg, 27, a German count by birth, "really just playacting, and in the end, they're Europeans again...
...American beverage. But in Illinois and four other Midwestern states, an outbreak of Salmonella poisoning is causing Americans to approach milk with some trepidation. Since March 24, nearly 4,000 cases of the nasty gastrointestinal illness have been traced to milk sold by Jewel Food Stores. The still increasing numbers make this one of the worst Salmonella episodes in U.S. history. Three deaths have so far been linked to the disease, and 22 lawsuits have been filed against Jewel, which also owns the plant where the milk was processed...
...outbreak appears to be resistant to antibiotics. Because it can remain dormant and is also contagious, health experts fear that as many as 10,000 people could eventually contract the infection, which causes vomiting, diarrhea and fever. While the search goes on for the exact source of the bug, Jewel has shut its suspect dairy and removed all its dairy products from its 217 outlets. Workers at several Chicago-area stores poured thousands of gallons of milk down storm sewers, creating concern that this might allow the bacteria to spread. Jewel cleaned up the potential contamination at a cost...