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Sponsored by the antitax crusader Paul Gann, who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion, and Orange County Republican Congressman William Dannemeyer, the initiative would compel physicians, surgeons, blood banks and test sites to report to public health offices anybody turning up with the HIV virus. Moreover, reporting would be mandatory if there were merely "reasonable cause to believe" a person was infected. HIV carriers would be required to provide authorities with the names of those they might have caught the virus from or passed it to. Dannemeyer, who supported an earlier, unsuccessful ballot proposition requiring the quarantine of AIDS patients...
...Botha, the next step is a white parliamentary election, which must be held no later than March 1990. Over the past year, the Conservative surge looked as if it might be unstoppable, and Botha unsuccessfully tried to ! engineer a constitutional amendment that would postpone the test for two more years. Now that the rightist threat seems to be at least temporarily quarantined in the Transvaal, many in Parliament speculate that he will call an election early next year and thus project his brand of crabbed and segregated reform into the middle of the next decade...
Maybe, but the RJR Nabisco deal will put that assertion to a stern test. The struggle for the huge company began two weeks ago, when it was announced that a group of managers led by chief executive Ross Johnson, 56, was considering making a $17.6 billion buyout bid, to be put together by Shearson -- not KKR. The announcement came after Johnson delivered a startling message to the RJR Nabisco board of directors: "This company ought to be in play." News of the buyout proposal stunned Henry Kravis, who felt betrayed by Shearson's chairman, Peter Cohen. For one thing, Kravis...
...great as its shareholders' equity. Nu-kote's $55.6 million in debt amounts to more than eleven times equity. If sales plummeted or interest rates rose, those debt loads could become crippling burdens. The new manager-owners have made a good start at running their companies, but the test will come during the next economic downturn...
...bright fall afternoon, past worries are forgotten. After a four-month plant shutdown, the new computer that will automate operations is in place, and the shaft will soon start to turn again. A few last-minute tasks remain. Engineers bend over diagrams of the wiring circuits as they test connections in the mazes of wires that fill the control cabinets. The start-up countdown begins in earnest. Engineers watch the gauges as the needles begin to move. An exacting series of 14 conditions must be met before the computer will allow operation to start. When the computer is satisfied...