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...table the first time and this time." He then returned with an attorney to RJR's 48th-floor New York offices in seemingly good spirits. As city lights glittered around them, the two men sipped drinks and munched Oreo cookies while reflecting on the day's ordeal...
...locked in a titanic struggle for the company (1987 revenues: $15.8 billion), and the offering price has climbed above $26 billion -- more than the gross national product of Peru or Portugal and twice the sum that Chevron paid for Gulf Oil in 1984 in the largest previous merger. The ordeal turned into a feeding frenzy for hangers-on as well: hundreds of lawyers and investment bankers involved in the bidding stand to earn a total of as much as $1 billion for their expertise...
...over," an army spokesman told reporters about 10 minutes after eight people were seen leaving the aircraft. There was no word on whether the eight crew members who were freed had been injured during the ordeal...
Last week the ordeal came to an end as a three-member panel of justices sentenced Akhmet Akhmetov, 24, to death for his part in what has been described as the worst ethnic clash in Soviet history. Akhmetov, the oldest of the three men on trial, was charged with "organizing and participating in pogroms, murder and arson." The cases of his co-defendants were sent back for further investigation. "I suppose I'm pleased," said an Armenian who had come to the courtroom every day since the proceedings began on Oct. 18. "But we really wanted...
...sordidness. The Chamberlains were devout Seventh-Day Adventists, and, since most people know little about that faith, wild rumors that it encouraged ritual murder soon surfaced. Worse, Lindy refused to play the archetypal role that this drama called for. She would not grieve hysterically for the reporters. Throughout her ordeal she was altogether too combative in her own defense, too openly contemptuous of misinformed public opinion...