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...mining and manufacturing company, and the De Beers diamond concern. The divestiture, which followed a gradual reduction of the British bank's holdings in Barclays National to 40.4% by last year, was made in the face of rising worldwide sentiment against apartheid and doing business in South Africa. Said Sir Timothy Bevan, chairman of Barclays: "I'm not a coward, but it's no good being totally brave and unrealistic. World opinion is important. It affects commerce...
...Sir James Goldsmith, 53, the Anglo-French raider, abruptly ended his 2 1/2- week siege of Goodyear Tire & Rubber, the Akron manufacturer, after being grilled before the House Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law in Washington. "My question is: Who the hell are you?" said Ohio Democrat John Seiberling, whose family founded Goodyear. Goldsmith's sharp retort was that he represented the "rough, tough world of competition . . . a world in which you run a business as a business and not as an institution." But the aggressive tycoon, who owned 11.5% of Goodyear's stock and had offered $4.7 billion...
...Death marks the long awaited return of Commander Adam Dagliesh, a sensitive yet super-sly inspector, who hasn't graced James' novels in the last nine years. Now back in action, Dagliesh's current task is to investigate what appears to be the double suicide of politically prominent Sir Paul Berowne and town tramp Harry Mack, found together in a church vestry with their throats...
...conducting the Y Chamber Symphony (Nonesuch). Americans seem to have show music in their blood, even when they were immigrants like Weill (Germany) and Herbert (Ireland). Herbert, a cello virtuoso and conductor who directed the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1898 to 1904, wanted to be taken seriously -- as did, similarly, Sir Arthur Sullivan -- but it was his 40-odd operettas (Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta) that won him lasting fame. Hunsberger leads crisp, snappy performances of several rousing marches and show tunes. The disk also includes selections from Herbert's forgotten 1911 grand opera Natoma: light Wagner set in Southern California...
...House of Commons was packed and restive as Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe rose to make a statement. Just four hours before, a London criminal court jury had convicted Jordanian Terrorist Nezar Hindawi, 32, of plotting to blow up an El Al jet by using his Irish girlfriend, Ann Murphy, as a human time bomb. Testimony at the trial had strongly implicated Syrian officials, and Howe was expected to issue a stinging denunciation of the Damascus government...