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...past two decades, Victor Posner, 66, the Miami Beach financier, has corralled major stakes in more than 40 companies, including control of Atlanta-based Royal Crown, the soft-drink maker, and a 37% interest in Chicago's National Can. Last week, though, key parts of Posner's billion- dollar empire were staggering. Evans Products (1984 sales: more than $1 billion), a Posner-controlled company that sells building materials and railroad cars, filed a bankruptcy petition in Miami. Posner's Sharon Steel seems shaky; it is more than two weeks late with a $23 million payment on its $330 million debt...
When Max Kampelman of the U.S. and Victor Karpov of the Soviet Union take their seats at a table in Geneva next week, they will be marking the end of a superpower standoff that has lasted for 15 uneasy months. The possessors of the world's two mightiest arsenals of doomsday weapons will once again be formally seeking agreement on ways to control their destructive power. No miracles are expected: nuclear negotiations over the past 22 years have occasionally resulted in limits on future stockpiles, but never in deep reductions of current ones. Yet the U.S. is convinced that...
Shultz's reply to Gromyko, which Max Kampelman will echo to Victor Karpov next week, was that the promiscuous Soviet buildup of offensive weapons has created a "strategic environment" in which the U.S., out of simple prudence, must consider an offsetting buildup in defenses. By the Administration's reckoning, it is the U.S.S.R., not the U.S., that has sinned against the once sacred principle...
While playwrights like Shepherd and Chekhov--who usually comprise standard fare at the Ex--will continue to predominate during the regular season, the HRDC has made numerous efforts to open up the theater to new group especially those that are not specifically oriented to drama. David G. Victor '87, president of the HRDC, explained that this season's outreach effort is "a way of extending the opportunities we can provide--including a space and some financial help--to people who aren't the traditional stock of the HRDC...
However, extending the season also presented the possibility of scheduling problems. Since the preseason events occur during the time regular season shows use for rehearsal, the projects chosen needed to be one which did not require much rehearsal time of then own, Victor said...