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Gulf & Western replaced Diller with Frank Mancuso, 51, Paramount's marketing chief. Michael Eisner, 42, Diller's former second in command, quit his post, apparently because Mancuso got the job he wanted. There were rumors that Diller would bring Eisner to Fox, which needs an infusion of fresh ideas...
Wittkowski, who will collect his windfall in 20 annual installments of $2 million each, at first seemed unfazed. He said he planned to continue working ("If I quit, all I have to do is sit around and count my money") and promised to share his winnings with his brother, sister and father. "We want to stay just the way we are." But by the end of the press conference, the new millionaire said wearily, "I gotta go find a beer." After two days of talk shows and streams of visitors, he sought refuge farther afield. "He called me from...
...Rabin still enjoys strong support within Labor; if Peres does not deliver on his pledge, Rabin could succeed in scuttling a national unity agreement. In addition Mapam, a leftist party that holds six of Labor's 44 seats in the 120-member Knesset, has threatened to quit the Labor alignment if a Labor-Likud government is formed...
...three times." On a bulletin board in the room is a sign giving the schedule for blood tests, ultrasound and other medical exams. Beside it hangs a small picture of a soaring bird and the message: "You never fail until you stop trying." Michel Jones is not about to quit. Says she: "You have a dream to come here and get pregnant. It is the chance of a lifetime. I won't give...
...invited the U.S. to talk in Vienna in September about, among other issues, banning antisatellite weapons in outer space. The U.S. accepted but could not swallow Soviet preconditions, so the talks have not convened. Instead, relations have settled back into the jittery holding pattern that began when the Soviets quit nuclear-arms talks late last year to protest the deployment of new U.S.-built Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe. In a direct response to that deployment, the Soviets last week announced that they are testing ground-launched cruise missiles of their...