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...more than a month, meanwhile, Revlon, a star of the cosmetics industry, has been fighting off the advances of Pantry Pride, a Fort Lauderdale-based retail chain whose stores are mostly in the Southeast. Pantry Pride initially offered $47.50 a share and eventually $53, but Revlon Chairman Michel Bergerac landed a $56-a-share bid, for a total of $1.7 billion, from Forstmann Little, a New York investment firm...
Strasbourg Cathedral: Symbol of Two Civilizations: slide and lecture presentation by Jean-Michel Tuchscherer, Boston Public Library...
...accounts of the operation against the Rainbow Warrior. It was inconceivable, Le Monde claimed, that Vice Admiral Lacoste, the foreign espionage chief, would have acted without orders. Among those who might have authorized the attack or allowed it to happen, the paper said, were Lacoste's superiors: General Jean-Michel Saulnier, Mitterrand's personal chief of staff when the surveillance scheme was conceived; General Jeannou Lacaze, then overall armed forces Chief of Staff; and Hernu. By most accounts, Mitterrand was not informed of the spying mission until a week after the Rainbow Warrior had been sunk. By that time...
...week by putting on its war paint. The company's extra touch was a repellent that could be termed poison lipstick. Pantry Pride, a Fort Lauderdale-based supermarket chain, offered $1.8 billion for Revlon, or $47.50 per share. Declaring that the company was not for sale, Revlon's chairman, Michel Bergerac, and its board of directors adopted a variation on the so-called poison pill defense, in which the takeover target makes itself too financially painful to consume. In Revlon's case, the company would allow all shareholders except the hostile one to trade their holdings for debt certificates worth...
Quite a few other Democrats seemed to agree. While only 46 voted for the Republican package in April, 73 crossed the line last week. G.O.P. defections were cut in half, to seven. Said Minority Leader Robert Michel: "It was a good win, and we're grateful for it." House Speaker Tip O'Neill, who led a vigorous campaign against the April bill, mounted only a halfhearted challenge this time. The President, he warned, "is not going to be happy until he has the Marines and the Rangers there and has a complete victory...