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<text id=90TT1649>
<title>
June 25, 1990: Business Notes:Debt
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 49
Business Notes
DEBT
Donald the Deadbeat
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<p> Donald Trump showed his bankers last week that he can still
play a mean game of chicken. The embattled developer disclosed
that he failed to pay at least $30 million that was due Friday
on bonds issued by his Trump Castle casino in Atlantic City.
His missed payment could lead to default, which in turn could
push all or part of Trump's holdings into bankruptcy. He knows
his bankers want to avoid that, since it could leave them with
a lot of hard-to-sell real estate in New York and New Jersey.
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<p> Trump, who has a ten-day grace period to make his bond
payment, may be trying to increase the pressure on his bankers
in their negotiations to restructure his $2 billion debt load.
Four major New York City banks have already agreed on a
proposal that would extend him an additional $60 million to
meet payment deadlines. But some of the smaller New Jersey
banks reportedly balked at the terms because they felt they
were taking on too much risk under the new arrangement.
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