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...fend off any further takeover efforts, Conoco searched frantically for a merger partner. On rumor alone, the stock prices of Diamond Shamrock, Newmont Mining and Cities Service all leaped as investors speculated that Conoco was preparing to institute merger proceedings with them...
...fact, quiet talks were actually going on only with Tulsa-based Cities Service, whose president, Charles Waidelich, had rushed from Oklahoma to a hotel suite at New York's Waldorf-Astoria for private meetings with Conoco's Bailey. Cities Service was seeking a merger for a reason surprisingly similar to Conoco's: to avert an attempted takeover of its Canadian oil and gas properties by another Canadian company, Nu-West Group Ltd., an Alberta real estate and energy exploration firm. Though less than half Conoco's size, Cities Service holds exploration rights to 10 million acres...
...sung. News today may be little more than bookkeeping, closer to ledger accounting than anything else. But even now we respond, almost intuitively, to heroes. Maybe with a little mistrust, to be sure, but still intuitively. Even Fortune magazine profiles petroleum executives in terms of bloody business combatants: vicious merger bids being the modern equivalent of a head on a lance...
After the attacks, Begin renewed Israel's charge that Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who signed a merger agreement with Syria last year, had sent men and equipment into Lebanon to aid the Palestinians. According to sources in Beirut, between 400 and 500 Libyan officers -not troops-have arrived in Lebanon over the past two weeks to act as advisers. The Libyans were sent in to instruct Pal estine Liberation Organization commandos of every group except Fatah, the largest, and some left-wing militia groups, in the use of artillery, rocket launchers and other military equipment that Libya...
...general interest rates fluctuate, will help the S and Ls match their mortgages to deposits. But such loans are not likely to constitute more than 25% of all thrift portfolios before the middle of the decade. Some S and Ls will not last that long and will feed the merger trend that has begun. But the survivors will be in a better position than ever to be the country's major mortgage lenders, tending once again to their heartland business of supplying Americans with the means to buy places to live. For now, though, S and Ls can hope...