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...Reagan Administration has rarely thwarted a major corporate merger. Thus it came as a surprise last week when the Federal Trade Commission said it would sue to stop PepsiCo from buying Seven-Up, and Coca-Cola from swallowing Dr Pepper. Pepsi's bid to merge the No. 2 and No. 3 U.S. soft-drink brands was announced in January, and industry leader Coke agreed to buy the No. 4 brand a month later...
...other hand, consuming American pop is not necessarily a kind of pro- Americanism. The Rambo look is all the rage among guerrillas in Beirut. The Sandinistas are American baseball nuts. Says Peruvian Writer Augusto Ortiz de Zevallos: "You see Marxist-Leninists with T shirts that say COCA-COLA." In the view of Marc Pachter, a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, foreigners may turn to the left precisely because they like American pop so much. At least in Europe, argues Pachter, youthful political anti-Americanism is a way of "justifying their enormous thirst for American pop culture. As long as they...
...seems that there is no place on earth too remote to have a McDonald's restaurant, a Coca-Cola bottling plant or a Holiday Inn hotel. The Memphis- based Holiday Corp. lodging chain said last week that it had agreed to manage Tibet's ten-month-old Lhasa Hotel, a 500-room, $30 million complex...
Citibank-Citicorp donated at least $3 million. Primary sponsor Coca-Cola Co. won't disclose its donation, but Rogol concedes it's at least as much as Citicorp...