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Politicians with elections soon ahead of them were especially quick to pick up the antitax cry. Seeking to unseat Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis, who has been tightfisted himself. Republican Candidate Edward F. King is pushing an amendment that would put a cap of 9% of total personal income on all taxes levied in the state...
...JERSEY (June 6). As some 4,500 rock music fans roared in the Rutgers Athletic Center, Performers Paul Simon, Melissa Manchester and the Not Ready for Prime Time Players helped raise money for former New York Knicks Basketball Star Bill Bradley in his uphill fight to unseat four-term Republican Senator Clifford Case. Singer Patti Smith, cavorting in tight silver pants, with an American flag draped over her shoulders, set her sights even higher. "Let's put a jock in the White House," she bellowed. "He's a smart...
Takeover artists are often suspected of wanting to tap the till of the target company, but hardly any ever admit it-let alone boast about it. An exception is T. Roland Berner, chairman of Curtiss-Wright, who is campaigning to unseat directors of Kennecott Copper and install his own board in a shareholder election May 2. In the most unusual proxy statement in recent years, Berner last week vowed that if Curtiss-Wright gets control, it will distribute some $660 million of Kennecott's assets to stockholders-who prominently include Curtiss-Wright. It owns 3.3 million Kennecott shares...
Weizman and Begin had clashed before. In 1972, only three years after joining the Herut Party, Weizman challenged Begin for the leadership. He lost, but Begin has never forgotten the attempt to unseat him. "I respect him," Weizman wrote of Begin in his 1975 memoirs, On Eagles' Wings. "But we are poles apart in our characters, our viewpoints and our personal traits. There was the friction you get between men who lack a 'chemical affinity.' " Today he puts his relationship with Begin a little differently. He is simply trying to help Begin "navigate the ship of state...
...Premier Jacques Chirac and National Assembly President Edgar Faure, helped arrange the sales to keep the papers firmly in the hands of the governing camp. Whatever happened, Hersant has become the majority's most important daily journalistic defender, and all the coalition parties have supported his attempt to unseat a fellow Gaullist in Neuilly...