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Chairman, CEO: Reginald K. Brack...
Chairman, CEO: Reginald K. Brack...
...Wall Street Journal op-ed piece laying out the company's position, Time Warner co-CEO Gerald Levin makes two defenses. First, Ice-T's Cop Killer is misunderstood. "It doesn't incite or glorify violence . . . It's his fictionalized attempt to get inside a character's head . . . Cop Killer is no more a call for gunning down the police than Frankie and Johnny is a summons for jilted lovers to shoot one another." Instead of "finding ways to silence the messenger," we should be "heeding the anguished cry contained in his message...
...Bank of Credit & Commerce International scandal, was broadly aimed. "No participant in the B.C.C.I. scheme, here or abroad, however influential, should expect to escape justice," declared Morgenthau. The D.A. then made good on his threat by delivering a grand jury indictment of billionaire Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz, CEO of the National Commercial Bank, the largest commercial bank in Saudi Arabia, and a financial adviser to the Saudi royal family, on charges of fraud. Other targets of a criminal grand jury led by Morgenthau include intimates of the royal families of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic. Mahfouz, a principal...
...last week. The Vice President brought up the troubled U.S.-JAPAN BUSINESS COUNCIL, which has been holding talks aimed at lowering trade barriers. Prospects looked good after President Bush visited Japan in January. But progress stalled last month when Japanese members abruptly denied that problems exist. Snapped a Japanese CEO to his U.S. counterparts: "You just aren't competitive." The seething Americans threatened to quit the council. After Quayle complained at length over breakfast with Miyazawa last Thursday, the Japanese Prime Minister told an aide, "I want this solved." American executives say unless they see some progress in the next...