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...million shares, for $2.07 billion (his profit: $600 million). The sale, which ranked as the largest single trade in Big Board history, was so unwieldy that three investment firms -- Shearson Lehman Hutton, Goldman, Sachs and Salomon Brothers -- teamed up to buy the shares. The bombshell transaction freed Icahn to prowl once more, setting off speculation that he would make another move to take over USX. Icahn owns some 29 million shares of the oil-and-steel concern, or 11.4%, worth about $1 billion. But so far, Icahn refuses to tip his hand...
Outside the meeting rooms of the Las Vegas Hilton, where 2,000 well-heeled stock-market investors prowl for new ideas, the pay phones are not sweaty with fevered trading. A California broker ties up one line grousing about a "chisel-wad" client. The other phones are empty. Nobody's buying...
Meanwhile, private security guards prowl the halls of La Jolla Country Day. Students have been instructed how to evacuate the building during a bomb threat, and a psychologist has counseled Rogers' pupils. Officials held a "terrorism awareness" briefing for faculty members. And 21 fourth-graders anxiously await the return of their beloved Mrs. Rogers. "What Americans need to understand is that the way to deal with terrorism is not to isolate the victim but to stand together," observes San Diego Congressman Bill Lowery, Rogers' most vocal supporter. "((The terrorists')) weapon is fear. Most Americans realize that, and I hope...
...ideology. Organized crime is so active that Mafia has become commonplace in Russian patois. The homeless are more obvious too, including provincials who have traveled to Moscow to buy or trade for food and must spend the night huddled in drafty railway stations. Elsewhere, gaudy hookers and teenage toughs prowl pedestrian tunnels, and beggars -- old women, mostly -- hold out quavering hands for kopecks. Black marketeers hustle even in Red Square, and on a green fence near city hall someone has neatly painted, in English, SEX! and ROCK...
...founded Project Open Hand with seven "clients." Each day by 5 a.m., she would prowl the produce markets for "distressed" vegetables. She cooked in a church basement and delivered the meals in her battered Volkswagen van. "Some of the people were so emaciated," she remembers, "they would have to crawl to where the buzzer...