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...Democratic Convention. Stepping out of the Hilton Hotel into the battle between police and demonstrators on Michigan Avenue, he was charged by a Chicago cop with billy club raised. "He was about to go for my skull," Morrow says. "I held up my press credentials, like a ridiculous little shield. He thought for a long second, then shouldered me back through the glass doors of the hotel...
...company smaller than General Motors is fair game, A.H. Robins seemed to be an unlikely target. The Richmond pharmaceutical firm has been bogged down in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings since 1985, and faces billions of dollars in claims from women who say they were injured by Robins' Dalkon Shield, a small plastic intrauterine birth-control device. Yet in the past few weeks suitors lined up as if Robins had discovered a cure for cancer. Two U.S. drug companies (Manhattan-based American Home Products and the Rorer Group of suburban Philadelphia) and one foreign pharmaceutical and cosmetics house (Sanofi of Paris...
...French drug company, which manufactures everything from Nina Ricci perfumes to pills that fight hardening of the arteries, will pay $3.08 billion. The price includes $600 million for a 58% interest in Robins and $2.48 billion that will be put into a trust fund to pay damages to Dalkon Shield claimants...
...continuing success of Robins' products has been overshadowed by one costly, disastrous mistake. Introduced in 1971, the Dalkon Shield had to be withdrawn from the market in 1974 after reports that the device was causing such problems as infertility and life-threatening pelvic infections. By August 1985, when Robins started bankruptcy proceedings to protect itself from a torrent of lawsuits, it had paid $500 million in damages to 9,500 claimants, and 5,100 cases were still pending...
...High, Princeton's goalie, uses his stick as a shield against anybody who even gets near the crease...