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<text id=92TT1837>
<title>
Aug. 17, 1992: This Parting Is No Sorrow
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Aug. 17, 1992 The Balkans: Must It Go On?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK, Page 16
BUSINESS
This Parting Is No Sorrow
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<p>Investor Carl Icahn may have finally found a way out of TWA
</p>
<p> It has been widely accepted wisdom that corporate raider Carl
Icahn launched his hostile takeover of Trans World Airlines six
years ago in order to greenmail management into paying a higher
price for his stock. Icahn confounded the skeptics by actually
taking control and running the airline, but he has made no
secret in recent years of wanting out of his money-losing
investment. Throughout last week, Icahn and TWA's labor unions
hammered away at a deal that would turn over the airline to its
28,000 workers and allow the New York takeover artist to bail
out and save face at the same time.
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<p> Though at week's end the talks were ongoing, all the
parties are in agreement that Icahn's departure is the desired
outcome. Once the nation's No. 3 carrier, TWA now ranks a
distant seventh. The reluctant chairman wants out of a bad
investment, which he claims has cost him personally at least
$100 million. The airline has lost more than $511 million since
1990, including $104 million in this year's first quarter. TWA's
workers, angered by Icahn's relentless quest to cut costs, blame
him for driving the carrier into the ground. But before Icahn
can exit, he has to satisfy union demands for job security. He
also has to resolve an order by federal pension authorities to
make up a shortfall in TWA pensions of $1.1 billion.
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