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Bernard's selection is central to a strategy by Mobil, which owns Montgomery Ward, to sell the money-losing subsidiary. In naming him, the second largest U.S. oil company (1984 sales: $56 billion) hopes to shape up Montgomery Ward and thereby make it attractive to potential buyers. Mobil officials say that it may be two or three years before the retailer will be strong enough to stand alone financially...
...despite the introduction of low-alcohol brews like Anheuser-Busch's year-old LA. Wine growth, which experienced significant leaps in the 1970s, has slowed. One reason: the industry was late in developing softer lines. The Seagram Co. Ltd., the Montreal-based distillery giant, has become the second- largest American wine producer; it owns both Paul Masson and Taylor wines, along with some 100 other spirits. To woo the yuppie sweet tooth, many distillers are marketing unusual-flavor drinks much lower than liquor in alcohol content. Bailey's Original Irish Cream Liqueur (whiskey, chocolate and cream) and Hublein's Long...
...orders came without warning. Late last month Ethiopian officials at Ibnet, one of the largest of the drought-parched country's 200 famine-relief centers, suddenly announced that most of the camp's 58,000 residents had to return, within twelve hours, to their homes. For thousands of the refugees, including old people and some weakened by starvation, the order meant a walk of up to two weeks through some of Africa's most rugged terrain. Hundreds, therefore, resisted the move, protesting that they would rather die in the camp than face the ordeals of the open road. At that...
...Wells Fargo robbery last week is one of the largest cash heists in U.S. history, the record being the $11 million stolen from a Sentry armored car in the Bronx in 1982. The theft is one of several holdups in the past few years for the once impregnable security- and cash-transfer company. Only one day after the New York stickup, two masked men with revolvers filched $106,000 from a Wells Fargo guard in Miami Lakes...
...they had stripped the American Goliath of $150 billion, 58,022 lives and, for a while, some of its self-confidence. But ten years after its moment of glory, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam has little else to cheer about. Its army, the world's fourth largest (1.2 million men), remains at war and on alert: 160,000 of its troops are trying to subdue resistance fighters in neighboring Kampuchea, while another 650,000 men keep an uneasy peace along the Chinese border. The relaxed, Westward-looking laissez-faire of the South has yet to be completely assimilated within...