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...equally riveting, corporate development: the birth of a huge new airline company. TWA, which has struggled for the past month to escape Corporate Raider Carl Icahn, agreed to be acquired by Texas Air Corp., which already owns Continental and New York Air. The merger will create the second largest U.S. airline, after United...
...largest East-West spy swap since World War II, the result of talks among six nations: the U.S., East and West Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and the Soviet Union. Negotiations began after Polish Spy Marian Zacharski was sentenced to life in prison in 1981 for buying classified documents from a Hughes Aircraft Co. radar engineer. Poland let the U.S. know it wanted him back. In 1983 Alfred Zehe, a Dresden physicist, was arrested in Boston for buying classified information from a Navy employee cooperating with the FBI. East Germany then entered the talks through Wolfgang Vogel, an East German lawyer...
...mobility and firepower than the rebels. Since April the Sandinistas have kept the contras on the run, pushing them north over the Honduran border and south into Costa Rica. Last month Nicaraguan troops actually drove about three miles into Honduras and shelled Las Vegas, the base camp of the largest contra faction, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN). The contras lack even the guerrillas' traditional element of surprise: Sandinista spies have thoroughly infiltrated rebel camps...
...join forces. Specifically locked out of the agreements are New York and California, home to the biggest U.S. banks. The court action seems certain to spur new mergers between regional institutions. In the South, the decision immediately cleared the way for Citizens & Southern (assets $8 billion), Georgia's largest bank-holding company, to acquire Landmark Banking Corp. (assets $3.8 billion). Harry Keefe Jr., chairman of the Wall Street brokerage firm of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, predicts that the pace of acquisitions will accelerate. "There are only 22 institutions with assets of $20 billion or more," he notes. "That figure should double...
...question other Mengeles proved unsuccessful. In Gunzburg (pop. 19,000), the town where most of the clan resides, family members were "not available," either at their homes or at the headquarters of Karl Mengele & Sons, the family-run farm-machinery and hydraulic-press concern that is Gunzburg's largest employer. In Munich, 120 miles to the southeast, some Mengele relatives were so wary of newsmen that they took nameplates off their doorbells...