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...Does Rupert Murdoch really mean to grab Warner...
...brief letter from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to Warner Communications was impeccably polite, but it had the impact of a death threat. Received on Dec. 30 and made public last week, the letter announced that Murdoch's company might buy up to 49.9% of Warner's stock. Later in the week Murdoch notified the Securities and Exchange Commission that he might wage a proxy fight to "influence the managment or acquire control of the company." At Warner's Manhattan headquarters, executives quickly donned flak jackets for a takeover battle...
...waffling over whether he should quit did her no good. Labor rose from its electoral ashes to choose bright, eloquent Welshman Neil Kinnock, 41, as its new leader. From Thatcher's Tory ranks came broadsides ripping her economic policy, her lack of compassion, her foreign dealings. Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, long an ardent backer, echoed the feelings of many when he declared: "She has run out of puff...
...March 1982, Evans resigned after serving just a year as editor of the Times of London, one of the world's most eminent newspapers. But he did not leave voluntarily. He was shoved out by Rupert Murdoch, the Australian press baron who had bought the Times and its sister publication the Sunday Times in 1981. And, in a nice twist, it was Murdoch who had hired Evans in the first place, luring him away from the editorship of the Sunday Times, a post he had held for 14 years...
...holdings include such staid institutions as the Australian of Sydney and the Times of London. But the eight big-city tabloids of Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, 52, which cover their turf from Boston to Fleet Street, rarely stray from lurid roots: NUDE PRINCIPAL DEAD IN MOTEL (San Antonio Express); HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR (New York Post). Last week Murdoch took his headline high jinks to the U.S. heartland. He bought the troubled Chicago Sun-Times, the nation's eighth largest urban daily, for $90 million in cash...