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Harvard officials said this week that the University will take on a new role with RJR-Nabisco, the tobacco and consumer goods company recently taken over by Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts and Company in the largest leveraged buyout ever...
...Morris Companies, Inc., another tobacco manufacturer in which Harvard owns stock, are scheduled to take place this spring, Gray said. According to Harvard's finance report for last year, the University held more than $27 million in Philip Morris stock. At that time, Philip Morris was Harvard's third-largest public stock investment...
DeVillars said Quabbin, the largest reservoir in the Northeast, is usually at 81 percent capacity and is down this year to 68 percent. It is at its lowest level since March 1967, when it fell to 45 percent. The last water emergency was declared when the reservoir's level was 65 percent in 1965, the beginning of a four-year drought, according to MDC records...
...generals (Rodriguez's daughter is married to Stroessner's son), Rodriguez had quietly sided with a faction within the ruling Colorado Party that favors limited democratic reforms. As a result, Stroessner reportedly was on the verge of moving Rodriguez to a purely ceremonial position. Rodriguez, who has headed the largest of Paraguay's three army corps since 1961, did not give him the opportunity. Stroessner's health and a brewing struggle over his successor may also have triggered the coup: the seemingly indestructible dictator underwent prostate surgery five months ago and has since shown signs of deterioration...
...branch of the Soviet government has been so secretive -- and so dreaded -- as the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), better known as the KGB. The world's largest spy and state-security machine, the KGB employs more than 500,000 people, including thousands of agents abroad. The agency has long been the stuff of shadowy legend, its name synonymous with terror and its doors shut tightly to the public...