Word: shaheen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "Mr. Saffir's remarks are too contemptible to answer." It is true that the Times has limited its Trib coverage to brief announcements. But Times editors have reason to be skeptical. Beginning in 1973, they devoted considerable attention to the plans of Oilman John Shaheen to launch a new daily called the New York Press. Although he invested a reported $25 million in the paper, it has not yet appeared, and Shaheen has stopped setting dates for its debut...
...time." Six months ago, his 38-year-old son Lammot ("Motsey") du Pont Copeland Jr. petitioned for one of the most spectacular personal bankruptcies on record. He listed assets of $26 million and liabilities totaling $55 million. The younger Copeland's chief business associate, Lebanese-born Thomas A. Shaheen Jr., has been indicted by a Chicago grand jury on charges of receiving kickbacks on loans from the barbers' union pension fund and others. Much of the money allegedly went to shore up a dizzying business empire assembled by Copeland and Shaheen. In a related matter, Motsey has been...