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(Dec. 24, 1990) Died:Armand Hammer
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Dec. 24, 1990 What Is Kuwait?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 70
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<p> DIED. Armand Hammer, 92, quintessential entrepreneur and
pioneer of trade with the Soviet Union; in Los Angeles. Hammer,
who was trained as a physician but never practiced, went to the
famine-stricken Soviet Union in 1921 and made the first of many
deals with the Soviets by arranging a barter of furs and caviar
for American wheat. Living in the Soviet Union in the 1920s,
he bought up much of the czarist art holdings and eventually
acquired one of the world's great private collections. Hammer
hobnobbed with Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Gorbachev and was a
tireless spokesman for better U.S.-Soviet relations. In the
1950s he invested in the tiny Occidental Petroleum Corp. and
transformed it into a $20 billion conglomerate. Reared in a
nonobservant Jewish family, he died the night before he was to
celebrate his belated Bar Mitzvah.
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