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- <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>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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