Word: mergers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final word has probably not been heard from Liedtke, and the Justice Department could raise antitrust objections to the merger of the third and 14th largest U.S. oil companies. But no matter what happens now, Gordon Getty has achieved his goal of driving up the price of the family's stock. His company holdings, valued at $500 million a year ago, are now worth about $1.3 billion. - By Stephen Koepp...
...talks. For the moment, the White House has decided against doing so, in the belief that the Soviets will soon resume the INF talks on Reagan's terms, namely by accepting deployment of some new U.S. missiles in Western Europe. Moscow scoffs at the idea of a merger for precisely the opposite reason. "One can only merge something that really exists," says First Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Korniyenko...
...neither letter nor homily gave any indication that John Paul is about to foster closer Catholic-Lutheran relations. Explains a Vatican prelate who is very close to John Paul: "This Pope understands there can be no merger of Catholic and Protestant churches for many, many years, and probably many generations." But combined with John Paul's visit to the mother church of Anglicanism at Canterbury in 1982, the Lutheran service was one more step in the long process of reunification...
Kohl's upbeat attitude echoed the hopes of many West Europeans that the Soviets might eventually return to the bargaining table through a possible merger of the INF talks with the START negotiations. At week's end, the Soviet party daily Pravda labeled that interpretation a 'shameless deception." If the NATO countries wanted the resumption of the INF talks, the newspaper added, they "should restore the old state of things, when there were no American missiles in Europe...
Moscow's rejoinder was unnecessary. After considerable White House debate, the Reagan Administration has decided to oppose the idea of an INF-START merger. Keeping the two sets of talks separate is seen in Washington as a way to pressure the Soviets into modifying their position. West Europeans, however, hope that U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz will attend a Jan. 17 meeting in Stockholm of the 35-nation Conference on Confidence and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe. If Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko also shows up, the meeting could offer an opportunity to renew the superpower...