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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...blunt such objections, Takuma Yamamoto, Fujitsu's chairman, announced that ICL intends to keep its current management. Fujitsu also plans to issue ICL shares on the London Stock Exchange within the next five years. Still, since the mainframe industry has become an increasingly competitive, slow- growing business, Fujitsu probably looks to ICL for something other than its capacity to simply churn out machines. Katsumi Tsuzura, an analyst for Japan's LTCB Research Institute, suggests that ICL's strongest attraction is its "established brand name in Europe...
After Mladenov's departure, the Socialist leadership agreed in principle ^ that a non-Socialist should fill the presidency. But last week saw their hopes of installing a candidate of their choice dashed. After five ballots ended in deadlock, members of parliament, by a vote of 284 to 105, elected as President Zhelyu Zhelev, the leader of the opposition Union of Democratic Forces. Zhelev, who ran unopposed after all parties withdrew their initial candidates, needed a two-thirds majority of the members present...
...emerging harmony of international opinion, however, was scant consolation for Kuwait, since no one appeared actually willing to come to the defense of the tiny state and its 1.9 million people. While Iraq in the face of the world's condemnation promised to bring its troops home beginning five days after the invasion, a subsequent announcement made nonsense of that pledge. Baghdad said it was raising a new army for Kuwait in which -- surprise -- 100,000 Iraqis had volunteered to serve. What's more, Baghdad named a new government, composed of nine Kuwaiti army officers, that would clearly...
...prospect of a united Germany may be fueling the R.A.F.'s latest violence. A five-page letter to the press following the attack on Neusel decried the emergence of a "greater Germany pursuing the same goals and imperial plans as Nazi Fascism." The apparent anti-unification campaign follows the arrests of 10 R.A.F. operatives in East Germany in June. Three were released on legal technicalities, but six have been handed over to West German authorities, and one is in an East German prison. At a press conference in East Berlin, Interior Minister Peter-Michael Diestel confirmed that well- known terrorists...
...ranks are divided, and it is demoralized by the loss of the sanctuary that was offered to terrorists until a year ago by the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe. Still, the R.A.F.'s hard-core leadership of 15 to 20 people retains considerable destructive force. Over the past five years the R.A.F., a successor to the feared Baader-Meinhof gang, has attempted to assassinate six leading West German figures -- and succeeded four times. Eight months ago, the group killed Deutsche Bank chief executive Alfred Herrhausen, a personal adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, by exploding a bomb along a street...