To avert a military takeover, General de Gaulle was given wide discretion in 1958 in the formulation of a new constitution, which was overwhelmingly accepted in a referendum.
As head of the junk bond division of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., Mr. Milken was the senior general in the takeover wars that raged through corporate American in the 1980's.
The chief has suffered badly in prison for four years, yet in 1993 he welcomed (some say encouraged) General Abacha's takeover because he thought the general would install him as president.
But within days of the takeover, General Tohamy was already arguing against any inclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group that led the voting in elections for Parliament and the presidency.
LONDON – Philip Robert-Tissot, Citigroup's chairman for mergers and acquisitions for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, will become director general of the Takeover Panel of Britain, an independent regulator that oversees deals in the country.
A senior and highly regarded banker is appointed as director general of the Takeover Panel every two years and acts as a poacher-turned-gamekeeper to monitor bankers' and companies' adherence to the rules designed to protect shareholders from being misled by companies during takeovers.
But Carr said before Christmas: "We're presently the most open goal of almost any country in the world in terms of foreign takeovers and, indeed, takeovers in general.
"We're presently the most open goal of almost any country in the world in terms of foreign takeovers and, indeed, takeovers in general," says the former Cadbury chairman.
