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...acquisition followed a long, hard battle and came in the wake of last year's attempt to take over another U.S. publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. William Jovanovich restructured the company to thwart Maxwell's anticipated $2 billion bid. "Jovanovich killed the company. He's a dumb Croat coal miner. Had I met him, I would have told him so," Maxwell snarls with characteristic restraint. Some American publishers insist that he overpaid by as much as $1 billion for Macmillan. Not so, says Maxwell. "Information is growing at 20% a year," he explains in patient, professorial tones. "Communications is where...
...strategy of the RJR board seems designed to thwart Johnson's effort, in part because it would give him and his team too large a share of the goodies. While precise details of the Johnson group's stake have not been announced, several insiders have leaked the terms. Under Johnson's proposal, 90% of the company's equity, roughly $18 billion, would be swapped for debt. He and his group would control about 8.5% of the remaining equity, which would be sold to them for just $20 million but would immediately be worth about $200 million. The management group...
With neither major party anywhere close to a Knesset majority, Shamir holds the most cards in the game of coalition politics. For those who advocate a negotiated Mideast settlement, election results offer scant encouragement. -- Indian paratroopers thwart an invasion of mercenaries in the far- off Maldives. -- Sergei Khrushchev recounts the gripping tale of his father Nikita' s downfall...
...study commissioned by the State Department recommended razing the $22 million building. Demolition cost: $160 million. No decision has been announced. But U.S. diplomats concede that the shrubbery surrounding the building has a new kind of mulch: shredded documents. That is one way to save taxpayer dollars -- and thwart bugs...
Foes of apartheid are equally determined to thwart an election they see as hopelessly segregated. Activists have scrawled DON'T VOTE on walls, billboards and traffic signs throughout the black townships. Antiapartheid clergymen and academics have urged blacks to boycott the vote, despite the ban on such appeals. Others have resorted to deadlier tactics: shooting council candidates or fire bombing their cars and damaging meeting halls with mines and hand grenades. Last week, in apparent retaliation, suspected white extremists bombed the headquarters of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference, which is strongly opposed to apartheid. More violence...