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...thing that it might have the beneficial effect of making its even more careful than we have been. AsGen Westmoreland acknowledged, in effect, when he withdrew his suit, we didn't have to retract a word of that broadcast. Which would seem to indicate that if was accurate, and that he and his attorneys understood that...
...pinnacle of his power. By mustering 180 votes in Parliament --the absolute minimum necessary--Papandreou saw to it that his candidate, Christos Sartzetakis, 56, was elected President. Sartzetakis replaces conservative Elder Statesman Constantine Caramanlis, 78, a prestigious counterweight to Papandreou who resigned March 10 after the Socialists withdrew support for his candidacy...
Although analysts predicted that the debt package would be worth only about $55 a share once the securities started trading, Icahn declared victory and withdrew. "We're delighted about the outcome," he said. "Now I think it is a fair deal." Pickens chose to sell his 8.9 million shares back to the company at the $53 price that he had been promised last December. It was about time, said Pickens, that Phillips came around, instead of acting like a "mother handing a lollipop to her children one piece at a time...
...Minister Andreas Papandreou has pulled since he came to power in 1981, last Saturday's announcement was among the most startling. Contrary to his own promises, Papandreou declared that his ruling socialist PASOK party would not support President Constantine Caramanlis, 78, for reelection later this month. The President immediately withdrew his candidacy...
...S.D.I. that evidently prompted Moscow to return to the bargaining table. The Soviets walked away from negotiations in late 1983 to protest U.S. deployment of Pershing II and cruise missiles on NATO territory in Western Europe. Moscow vowed that it would not resume the talks until Washington withdrew the offending weapons, even though the Soviets maintain a similar stockpile of their own. Later, increasingly alarmed by the Reagan Administration's deepening commitment to a space-based defense system, the Soviets proposed convening a separate round of talks aimed at controlling these weapons alone. The Soviets are more worried about strategic...