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<text id=93TT1280>
<title>
Mar. 29, 1993: To Be, Or Not To Be
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Mar. 29, 1993 Yeltsin's Last Stand
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 15
BUSINESS
To Be, Or Not To Be
</hdr>
<body>
<p> A change in management can be a stately coronation--or a
tragicomedy of indecision. Two examples of the latter: the
Hamlet-like wavering of GM purchasing head J. Ignacio Lopez de
Arriortua and the ever-changing status of Pete Hamill at the
People's Republic of the New York Post.
</p>
<p> GENERAL MOTORS
</p>
<p> Wed., March 10
</p>
<p> Lopez hands his letter of resignation to CEO Jack Smith.
</p>
<p> Thurs., March 11
</p>
<p> Smith offers Lopez a higher post. Lopez thinks it over but
declines.
</p>
<p> Fri., March 12
</p>
<p> Chief financial officer and chief counsel beg Lopez to
reconsider.
</p>
<p> Sat., March 13
</p>
<p> Lopez reluctantly agrees to stay on.
</p>
<p> Mon., March 15
</p>
<p> Lopez is scheduled to appear at a GM news conference
announcing his return. Instead, he resigns.
</p>
<p> Tues., March 16
</p>
<p> Volkswagen names Lopez head of purchasing and production.
</p>
<p> NEW YORK POST
</p>
<p> Wed., Feb. 10
</p>
<p> New Post operator Steven Hoffenberg hires Pete Hamill as
editor in chief.
</p>
<p> Fri., March 12
</p>
<p> Even newer operator Abe Hirschfeld fires Hamill.
</p>
<p> Tues., March 16
</p>
<p> Hamill retakes the editor's chair after the staff keeps
his name on the masthead.
</p>
<p> Thurs., March 18
</p>
<p> Hirschfeld tells an interviewer he wants Hamill as editor
and publisher but then gets court order banishing Hamill from
the paper.
</p>
<p> Fri., March 19
</p>
<p> Hirschfeld and Hamill agree to a two-week arrangement:
Hamill stays as editor in chief and Hirschfeld simply runs the
business.
</p>
</body>
</article>
</text>