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...past three years in raids on several companies, notably Phillips Petroleum and Gulf. But last week the most feared shark in the corporate sea lost a few teeth. In his first clear defeat, Pickens grudgingly agreed to halt his three-month pursuit of California's Unocal, the twelfth largest U.S. oil company. While Pickens maintains he will at least break even on the deal, analysts expect that the Mesa Petroleum chairman and his partners will actually lose as much as $100 million. More important, the episode has broken Pickens' momentum and sent a discouraging word to other raiders...
Does America need a new credit card? Sears thinks so. The nation's largest retailer will soon test-market its Discover credit card, which will compete against American Express and Visa. Sears will try out its orange-and-black piece of plastic this fall in Atlanta. The card will be accepted by Denny's restaurants, Hospital Corp. of America, American Airlines and Budget Rent a Car, as well as Sears stores. Holiday Inns is reportedly expected to sign...
...public were forced to go high tech. Isabelle Solar, chief ornament of the French soft-core epic Joan, could be seen on the closed-circuit hotel TV network slipping into a steamy bubble bath. In other respects, Cannes voyeurism may be entering the Workout '80s. The town summoned its largest turnout of gawkers for a midnight chorus line of musclewomen from the American documentary Pumping Iron...
...largest carrier in the U.S., United faced its first pilots' strike since 1951. The issue that divides the airline and the people in the cockpit goes beyond a dispute over salaries or fringe benefits. At stake is a so- called two-tier wage system that would put new employees on a different pay scale from present ones. Under the United proposal, the starting salary for new pilots would drop from $22,452 to $21,600. In addition, newly hired pilots would remain on lower pay scales for the roughly 20 years that it takes to reach the rank of captain...
...supplies for the rebels' fight against the Sandinista regime. The main figure in that effort is Singlaub, 63, who was dismissed as Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in South Korea in 1977 after a dispute with President Carter. Adolfo Calero, commander of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.), the largest contra group, claims that Singlaub's network of U.S. and foreign supporters has raised the lion's share of cash and supplies valued at "close to $10 million." Substantial assistance, says Calero, is coming from "at least a dozen or more foreign countries...