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...takeover artists ready to breach the clubby confines of the Tokyo stock market? In what appears to be the first direct hostile raid on a Japanese company by a foreigner, T. Boone Pickens disclosed last week, the Texas-based corporate raider has accumulated a 20% stake in Koito Manufacturing, a key supplier of car parts to Toyota...
...Warner Inc., had a lot going for it. Who, after all, would have the money or the fortitude to stand in the way of a solid agreement between two of America's biggest companies? Yet Time and Warner have long been considered takeover targets, and speculation arose that a raider might go after one of them soon, before a merger could create a nearly invulnerable behemoth. Everyone from Rupert Murdoch to Warren Buffet, the shrewd Omaha-based investor, was mentioned as a possible buyer. But no suitor had come forward by week's end. Time's shares gained...
...addition, senior defenseman Scott Young has proven to be a sparkplug for the Colgate offense. Young holds the Red Raider records for most career points and most goals scored in a season by a defenseman and is the ECAC's top scorer behind the blue line with 28 points...
Icahn will extract a rich payoff. Texaco agreed to pay a special shareholder dividend of $2 billion, nearly $340 million of which will go to the raider. The money will come from the oil firm's $7 billion in proceeds from assets it has sold off since last June, partly at Icahn's urging...
...raider's fattened cash hoard raises the question of where he will strike next. Icahn, who took over TWA and became its chairman, already owns 11.4% of USX, and has shown interest in buying at least some of the assets of Texas...