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Meanwhile, a fierce struggle raged inside the firm. On one side stood Milken's supporters, many of them younger executives who worked in the Beverly Hills office where Milken has been based since 1978. The leading loyalists included Leon Black, Drexel's mergers-and-acquisitions chief who works in New York, and Peter Ackerman, Milken's top assistant. Arguing that the California group was responsible for 90% of Drexel's profits over the past decade, both threatened to leave the company if it reached a settlement that might harm Milken's defense. They were opposed by older executives, mostly...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Richard M. Cohen, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Richard M. Cohen, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Richard M. Cohen, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
...infiltrating Israel from Lebanon. The Algiers resolutions were read in front of a map that showed Palestine before Israel was created. And Abul Abbas, the demon of the Achille Lauro, was embraced by Arafat and seated as a member of the P.L.O.'s executive committee; Abul Abbas smirked that Leon Klinghoffer, the 69-year-old American shot in his wheelchair and dumped overboard, "maybe was trying to swim...