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When an attempted buyout of UAL, the parent company of United Airlines, collapsed two months ago, the news sparked the minicrash of Oct. 13. Now the failed bid is the talk of Wall Street once again, this time because of a Wall Street Journal report that bankers and lawyers will earn $58.7 million in fees for the deal, despite its downfall. More than $8 million will go to the investment firm Lazard Freres, which advised United's pilots union in the labor-management bid to buy the carrier for $6.8 billion...
...true that on Oct. 9 you personally intervened to prevent another Tiananmen Square happening in Leipzig by countermanding a written order by Honecker to use military units in and around the city -- which had received live ammunition -- to put down the demonstrations by force, on the grounds that they were counterrevolutionary...
...These demonstrations had been going on for several weeks. The situation became more aggravated on Oct. 9. Members of my and other parties refused to acknowledge that we were confronted with a popular movement aimed at bringing about a renewal in this country. I cannot confirm the existence of any order to shoot or that a distribution of ammunition took place. But clashes between demonstrators and the People's Police were possible...
That same week, in preparation for the next Monday, Oct. 16 ((when more demonstrations were expected)), I went to Leipzig, together with people who were responsible for security. We drew up instructions that 1) any kind of violent confrontation must be avoided, 2) in no case should firearms be used, and this was summed up in an order by the chairman of the National Defense Committee. I then went to the room in which we are now sitting and presented the order to Honecker. I insisted on his signing it, which...
Irises, it seemed at the time, was the picture that saved the art market after Black Monday -- Oct. 19, 1987 -- when Wall Street plunged 508 points. Actually, the market was running quite high between the crash and the sale of Irises, but the painting was greeted as a talisman. Bond beefed up the security arrangements on the top floor of his headquarters in Perth to fortress strength and unveiled his acquisition -- the only Van Gogh in Australia -- to the press. "This isn't just a great painting!" he exulted to the cameras. "It's the greatest painting in the world...