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...estimated cost of $250 million. Kerkorian met with Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca earlier this month and professed support for the company's management but refused to sign a "standstill" agreement to stop increasing his stake, a Chrysler spokesman disclosed. Girding for a possible takeover bid, Chrysler has strengthened its poison-pill defense plan, which will allow current stockholders to buy shares at below- market prices if any investor acquires a stake of 10% or more...
...every hour, also Voice of America, which broadcast messages from home. I heard a dozen messages from my own family. News of the military buildup lifted us too. We thought Bush was really going to invade. We even sealed off a safe room with tape in case of poison gas. All of us wanted Bush to hit the Iraqis. When nothing happened, we began to feel Saddam Hussein would outlast...
Maybe there's no activist plot to poison the hearts and minds of the student body, but the net effect of these activisms is one that produces "liberal totalitarianism." Perhaps every time an activist group opens its collective mouth, all others take that as a cue to silence themselves. That, too, seems unlikely...
SIGMAR POLKE, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The first major North American survey of a restlessly eclectic German artist, 49, whose work ranges from Pop-related imagery through psychedelic fantasy. Polke's recent "alchemical" works incorporate materials (silver oxide, sealing wax, even rat poison) that change color and texture as climatic conditions vary. Through...
...biological weapons since 1975. Resort to germ warfare would doubtless provoke devastating reprisals. "Saddam would be insane to use biological agents," says Matthew Meselson, a biological-weapons expert at Harvard University. Still, the Iraqi leader has ignored international opinion before. During the Iran-Iraq conflict, he employed poison gas against Iranian infantry and his own Kurdish population. The main impact of germ warfare on American soldiers may be psychological. Says Robert Weinberg, a germ-warfare expert at M.I.T.: "The very notion of biological agents strikes fear into their hearts...