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Whatever his ultimate objective, White last week brought the battle to a head by making a tender offer, under the name of Thatcher Banking Partners, for 50,000 shares of First National stock at $120 a share. To put its proposed holding company into operation, the bank needs approval of two-thirds of its stockholders. Coming on top of the stock it already holds, the White family's bid, if successful, would give it a 34% interest, just enough to block implementation of the holding company...
Deep-Seated Love. First National labeled the $120-a-share bid too low, as evidence claimed that White himself had asked at least $140 in offering to sell out his family's holding. Urging shareholders to reject the tender, the bank has declared a dividend increase of 43%, from $2.80 to $4. With his tender offer due to expire August 27, Bill White was insisting meanwhile that his motivation went beyond mere youthful ambition. Said he: "This all comes back to a deepseated, three-generation love of Colorado...
Until the 20th century came along, few communities of a few thousand men could have lived so foul a life as did the first white men in Sydney. By Keneally's fictional talent, all is made vivid as fresh blood; the reader is spared the statistical compilations of realist fiction. Yet, we learn in the course of this cruel narrative that a sentence of death by torture (500 lashes of the cat-o'-ninetails amounted to just that) could be handed out by a kangaroo court of Marine officers as casually as a parking fine would be imposed...
...Their psychology is different. We'd fight harder if we knew we'd be cut up into little pieces if we were captured, but they figure on putting a little fear into the other side," he says. Last April, McGuire helped to ferry Col. "Black Jack" Schramme's white mercenaries out of the Congo to Rwanda, and he says that even the mercenaries, by some accounts the most unpleasant white men around--felt a little bitterness at the African fighting style. "They (the mercenaries) feel that they're getting paid to kill a man. Okay, that's their business...
...goal of the group is to provide information to white team members about the expected black demonstration, and to stimulate discussion of the issues and possible support for the black athletes...