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...equally because any stockholder dispute could result in protracted litigation and block a potential sale. The U.S. Tax Court agreed and thus effectively ensured that the family would not have to sell off properties, as other media clans have had to do, to pay the tax bill. Wrote Washington Post economic columnist Robert Samuelson: "The scheme's beauty, of course, is that the Newhouses can apparently have it both ways. For estate tax purposes, the value of the company is artificially lowered. But should the family ever want to sell, it can easily realize the company's full market value...
...experts see a slim chance of a nuclear explosion in the case of the W-79 artillery shell, but the far more likely result would be a chemical blast that could release deadly radioactive plutonium or uranium from the cores. The safety problems, disclosed last week by the Washington Post, were promptly confirmed in public congressional hearings. The difficulties seem sure to complicate immensely a review under way of how many and what kind of nuclear weapons the U.S. should deploy in the light of easing cold-war tensions and prospective arms-control deals with the Soviets...
...Francisco set some new, supersophisticated computers to simulating the effects of nuclear blasts. One unexpected conclusion: the chemical explosives in a W-79 artillery shell could be detonated if the shell were struck in a single sensitive spot, perhaps by a stray bullet. One military official told the Washington Post, "For a while, we were also worried that these things might go off if they fell off the back of a truck." More than 300 of the shells were reportedly shipped to the U.S. from West Germany, the Netherlands and South Korea, where they had been deployed, then repaired...
...Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir continued his leisurely efforts to form a narrow right-wing coalition after the collapse of the national unity government two months ago. Shamir's prospects may depend on the cooperation of a far-right party headed by Rehavam Ze'evi, who is demanding the sensitive post of Police Minister as the price for his support. Ze'evi informed the Knesset last week, "Arabs only understand when they are clubbed on the head." Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini, one of 46 Palestinians who launched a hunger strike to protest last week's killings, was no more encouraging...
...growing "split among the supporters of perestroika" and the challenge to his authority "from the extreme left" and from "ones who pretend to be populists but who don't really represent the people's interest at all." He clearly had in mind Yeltsin, who was politicking vigorously for the post of the presidency of the Russian federation. Gorbachev lobbied personally on behalf of the federation's current Prime Minister, Alexander Vlasov, and accused Yeltsin of favoring a "collapse" of the Soviet Union. But at the end of the week, Vlasov withdrew his candidacy after a verbal drubbing from speakers...