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Subject: Honorees
Tom:
Is this what you had in mind?
We are honoring:
Louis Perlmutter- for his long record of involvement in efforts to
safeguard America's national interests in the Middle East, including the
security of Israel, through his commitment to US peace diplomacy
Susie Stern - for her relentless work on behalf of the Jewish people, of
Israel, of a strong US-Israel relationship C!nd of peace.
Alan Solomont- for his comitment to justice, his passion for human life and
his steadfast support for America's central role in brining Arab and Jew
together
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Dwayne Andreas -=for his outstanding contributions to building a strong
economic partnership between Israel and the U.S., and for his recognition
that peace is a prerequisite to stability and prosperity in the Middle East.
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Blessed are You, Eternal our God, Ruler ofthe Universe, who gives Presence
and Illumination to flesh and blood.
�ISRAEL POLICY FORUM
TRIBUTE DINNER
Honoring
WUIS PERLMUTTER
ALAN D. SOWMONT
SUSAN K. STERN
Recognizing the achievements
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DWAYNE 0. ANDREAS
Special Honored Guest
PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
Program Host
LESLEY STAHL
SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 2001
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POLICY FORUM
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lf srael Policy Forum is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization with a singular purpose:
Jl to promote the Middle East peace process in order to strengthen Israeli security ar:td further
U.S. foreign policy interests in the region.··
IPF sponsors educational programs for Jewish leaders and brings prominent American Jews
and Israeli security experts together with U.S. officials and members of Congress to discuss. ways
of advancing the peace effort.
Through its groundbreaking public-opinion polls, informative materials and publications and
the IPF Washington Policy Center, Israel Policy Forum delivers a solid message of support for
an energetic, sustaine'd U.S. role in bringing about Israeli-Arab peace and stability in the Mideast.
At each ·stage of the process, from the time IPF was created in 1993 fo the current pivotal
moment, IPF's leaders have rededicated themselves to the quest for peace. This is the
commitment of IPF and its leadership. In the words of the Psalmist: to seek peace and pursue it.
We are grateful that you have joined us this evening to honor those who have dedicated
themselves to achieving peace. These pages are dedicated to Louis Perlmutter, Alan D. Sol()mont_,
Susan K. Stern and Dwayne 0. Andreas- and to the American President who set a standard of
peace making for all who follow: William Jefferson Clinton.
�LOUIS PERLMUTTER
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ouis Perlmutter is a leading investment
banker who, as Manag~ng Director at
Lazard Fr*res & Co., L.L.C., serves as financial advisor to a number of major multinational
corporations. He has been principal financial
advisor in a number of noteworthy takeovers
over the past twenty years, representing buyers, target companies and independent
directors. ·Mr. Perlmutter has lectured widely,
and has written and testified on husiness,
financial and economic issues.
Before joining Lazard Fr*res, Mr. Perlmutter
was with the investment-banking firm of White
Weld, where he created and directed one of the
first merger and acquisition departments on
Wall Street. After _Merrill-Lynch acquired
White Weld,. Mr. Perlmutter became Managing
Director and head of its Mergers and
Acquisitions Department. Previously he was a .
financial consultant with his own firm in New
York City and practiced corporate law..
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Louis Perlmutter is also an active leader in ·
the non-profit world. Past Chairman of the
. Board of Trustees of Brandeis University, his
alma mater, he has also served in leadership
positions with the Council on Foreign
Relations, American Jewish Congress, the
United Nations Association, Harvard Medical
School, the University-of Michigan School
of Law (his other alma mater), and is a member of the Economic Club of New York and. the
Overseas Development CounciL
Mr. Perlmutter, who serves ori the Advisory
Cquncil oflsrael Policy Forum, remembers the
early days ofiPF when he was particularly
impressed with- the idea of peace as a bipartisan
one: "Peace is not the monopoly of the Democratic
Party or the monopoly of the Republican Party,
It is in the national interest of America."
. Louis Perlmutter and his wife, Barbara,
live in New York City. They have two sons,
Kermit and Eric.
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ALAN
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lan Solomont is an entrepreneur,
philanthropist and political activist.
For many years, he was a leading provider of
eldercare in New England. As founder and
CEO of the A *D*S Group, he .helped ~o build
a broad and innovative network of post-acute,
eldercare services. In 1996, the. A *D*S Group
·was sold to the Multicare Companies, which
is now a part of Genesis Health Ventures.
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Today, Mr. Solomont is Chairman and CEO of
Solomo_nt Bailis Ventures, whose mission is to
launch new and innovative health service and
eldercare ventures. He also serves on the
board of numerous charitable o:r;ganizations
including the Jewish Fund for Justice, New
Israel Fund, Tufts University and Combined
Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston.
Active for many years in the Democratic
Party, Mr. Solomont was chosen by President
Clinton and Vice President Gore to serve as ·
National.Finance Chairman of the Democratic
National Committee (DNC) in 1997. Under: his
leadership, the DNC r~ised over $40 million.
He was recently named by President Clinton
to serve as a Member of the Board ofDirectors
of the Corporation for National and Community
Service. Mr. Solomont was also active in the
Gore 2000 Campaign.
Mr. Solomont sees his involvement in Israel
. Policy Forum, on whose Board of Directors he
serves, as a way to fulfill a life-long commitme~t to peace and social justice. After accompanying Prer5ident Clinton to the signing of the
Israel-Jordan peace treaty in the Arava desert,
he was motivated to become more deeply
involved in the organization. "Our strength is
our focus on the peace process," Mr. Solomont
says. "Only in a Middle East at peace can
Israel truly be secure and fulfill its aspiration
to be a light unto the nations.,.It is my obligation to be involved in this effort... This is what
we have been taught as Jews."
.Alan Solomont is married to Susan Lewis.
They live in Weston, Massachusetts with their ·
two daughters, Stephanie and Becca.
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usa~ Stern, a Vice President of Ismel
Policy Forum, IS one of the most
respected philanthropic leaders in the
American Jewish community. She is chair of
the New York Campaign for UJA Federation,
which raises nearly $250 million annually, and
is a member of the National UJA Women's
Constituency Board of Directors, serving as
chair of the Northeast Region. Her dedicated
involvement with UJA has taken her to Israel
thirty times since 1985, as well as to the
Jewish communities of Sweden, Russia, Latvia, .
Turkey, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan,
Cuba and Argentina. Ms. Stern has participated in numerous international gatherings of
leaders, and in May of 1991, as Chair of UJA's
National Young Leadership Cabinet, she was
asked to be one of 17·nationalleaders to serve
as an eyewitness to "Operation Solomon," the
rescue of 14,000 Ethiopian Jews in 22 hours.
Ms. Stern was Director of Quality Assurance at
the American Dental Association before devot-
ing herself to volunteerism .. She has served
in executive and leadership positions with
many other organizations, including serving
on the boards of the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee, the United Jewish
Communities, American-Jsrael Public Affairs
Committee (AlPAC), Project Interchange, the
Women's Leadership Forum of the Democratic
National Committee, Jewish Women's
Foundation, and Westchester Reform Temple.
She has received many honors, including the
William Rosenwald Young Leadership Award
from the New York Federation and the
American Jewish Committee's Institute of
Human Relations Award.
"Virtually everything we hope for as Jews,
everything we work for, is predicated on the
achievement of peace," says Ms. Stern. "That
is why I have made my work with IPF such a
high priority." Susan Stern and her husband,
Jeffrey, live in _Scarsdale, NY. They have
two sons, Michael and Peter.
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wayne Orville Andreas is Chairman
Emeritus of the Archer-Daniels-Midland
Corporation, the largest U.S. processor of farm
commodities. He became CEO of A.D.M. in
1971 and converted the company into one of
the world's largest and most successful companies, known widely as the "Supermarket
to the World." Mr. Andreas has been active
in public affairs for most of his adult life, and
has been a friend and confidante to political figures ranging from Thomas E. Dewey and
Hubert H. Humphrey to Ronald Reagan and
Mikhail Gorbachev. His civic leadership
positions include roles with- The Forum for
International Policy, The Foundation for
the Commemoration of the United States
Constitution; National Cooperative Business
Association, The Hoover Institute on War,
Revolution and Peace, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, US-USSR
Trade and Economic Council, Foreign Policy
Association, the Council on Foreign Relations,
the Economic Club of New York, and the
Committee for a National Trade Polley.
Hubert Humphrey brought Mr. Andreas
to Israel for the first time in the late 1950s.
That trip kindled his love for Israel. He traveled
throughout the country, including a trip to
Sde Boker where he met David Ben Gurion.
Since then he has visited Israel numerous
times, where he has met every Israeli Prime
Minister; he also has numerous contacts
through the Arab world. Mr. Andreas is a
major supporter of the Peres Peace Center and
the Anti-Defamation League.
Dwayne Andreas's goal has always been
to "feed the world." He was the first
American business leader to understand that
a strong U.S;-Israel economic partnership could
help feed the hungry in Africa because of the
combination of American resources and Israeli
technological advances in agriculture. He has
always believed that hungry people make
war but satisfied people are able to make peace.
Mr. Andreas and his wife, Inez, live in
Decatur, IL. They have three children: Sandy,
Terry and Michael.
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ISRAEL POLICY FORUM
Board of Directors
Michael W. Sonnenfeldt
Chair/Chief Executive Officer
Jack Bendheim
President
Theodore R. Mann
Executive Committee Chair
Norman Pattiz
Vice Chair
Henry Rosovsky
Vice Chair
Susan K. Stem
Vice Chair
Allan Kahane
Treasurer
E. Robert Goodkind
Secretary
Robert K. Lifton ·
Chairman Emeritus
Karen Adler
Hyman Bookbinder
Stanley M. Chesley
Sybil A. Fields
Monte N. Friedkin .
Cynthia Friedman
Gail Furman
Stanley P. Gold
Yona Goldberg
Guido Goldman
Gary Heiman
D. Jeffrey Hirschberg
Michael G. Jesselson
Peter Joseph
Murray Koppelman
Marvin Lender
Jacqueline Levine
Geoffrey H. Lewis
Fredric H. Mack
Mike Medavoy
Harriet Mouchly-Weiss
Judith Stem Peck
Michael Pelavin
Debra F. Pell
Seymour D. Reich
Marcia Riklis
Michele Rosen
Melvin Salberg
Jodi J. Schwartz
Emmanuel Sella
Terri Smooke
Alan D. Solomont
David S. Steiner
Howard Sterling
Linda R. Sterling
David H. Strassler
Jeffrey M. Stern
Daniel Straus
Moshael Straus
S. Donald Sussman
Peggy W. Tishman
William A.K. Titelman
Melvyn I. Weiss
Alan L. Wurtzel
Debra Wasserman
Executive Director
Thomas R. Smerling
. Vice President/Director
IPF Washington Policy Center
Bronznick Jacoby LLC
Strat_egic Planning
Schrayer 'and Associates
Government Relations
Mindset Media and Strategy Group
Israel Representatives
(formerly Roberta Fahn & Associates)
National Scholars
and Senior Advisors
Marshall Breger
Stephen P. Cohen
Daniel Fleshier
Steven L. Spiegel
National Office Staff
Courtney M. Cabot
Jerome Crown
Orit Ha~el
Eliza L. Melamed
Dana P. Rosen
Catherine Sull
Marina Teplitsky
IPF Washington Policy Center·
Sara Borodin
Eugene Burger
Steve Kreider
M.J. Rosenberg
Zachary Taylor
Government Relations
Shari Dollinger
Guy Ziv
U.S, Advisory Council
Judith Barnett
Leon David Black
Matthew Bronfman
Nathan Gantcher
S~th M. Glickerihaus
Alexander Grass
Harvey M. Krueger
Louis Perlmutter
Howard J. Rubenstein
Edward Sanders
Howard Squadron
Jack Stein
Ambassador Samuel W. Lewis
. Senior Policy Advisor,
Washin~ton,
Israel Advisory Council
The Honorable Moshe Arad
Gen. (res.) Shlomo Gazit
Dan Gillerm·an
Carmi Gillon
David Kimche
Dov Lautman
Ron Lubash
Yehuda Ben Meir
Arye Naor
Jacob Perry
Gen. (res.) Danny Rothschild
Ambassador Shimon Shamir
Itschak Shrem
Geri. (res.) Iftach Spector
Nadine Baudot-Trajtenberg
Yoram Yahav
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Vice President Al Gore
Israel Poliby Forum
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It's a delight and a privilege to join you here tonight to honor three men who have helped build
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peace in the Middle East.
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Michael Spnnenfeldt, Jack Bendheim, Ted Mann and the organization they lead have spent
endless efforts and countless hours teaching and preaching the benefits of peace, and the vital
link betw~en peace in the Middle East, security in Israel, and security in America.
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Ted, fromiCamp David to Wye, you have been a tireless, determined and inspiring veteran of the
battle for asecure Israel at peace with its neighbors. And countless numbers of Soviet Jews
escaped c~mmunist tyranny because of your forceful and eloquent advocacy.
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with an insider's skill, to build support for the peace process in the American Jewish community,
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boost to tlie cause of peace, and to Israeli and American security. Your commitment to what you
have calle'd "passionate moderation" has raised the voices of reason and decency, so they are not
drowned 6ut by extremism and intolerance.
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Five yearJ ago, the Oslo Accords had just been signed. The historic handshake was fresh in our
minds. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres were dedicated to
moving quickly to achieve Oslo's promise. Chairman Arafat said he was confident that the
"peace of(the brave" was on the road to being achieved.
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support for moving forward, it seemed the winds of change finally favored peace in the Middle
East. Bu~ you understood that winds can blow in both directions -- that things could change. ·
/And so y~u founded a new organization committed to the cause of peace in the Middle East.
It ~as an act of foresight. Within a terribly short time, your support for the peace process
-- and more directly, fo~ the President who was working overtime to push the peace process
forward was very valuable indeed.
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importan~ --and always outspoken-- support for direct U.S. involvement.
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involvement to put the process back on track. In short, in your first five years of existence, you
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five years :ago. Your efforts evoke for me the cherished words of my own faith: "Blessed are
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the peace~akers."
Each persbn in this room comes here tonight secure in the knowledge of one fundamental foreign
policy tru~h: A strong and stable State oflsrael is a key cornerstone of American national
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allow Israyl's security to be threatened.
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what it tal{es to make peace. Peace cannot be established merely on a sheet of paper; it must be
establishea by the repeated, reliable, predictable performance of actions in support of peace and
security. lAnd our standards for judging those actions are stem and stringent. In the Middle
East, real peace must include the end of any threat to Israel's existence, and positive steps to
assure her: security. We all felt satisfaction and pride as President Clinton witnessed in Gaza last
month's aCtion . by the Palestinians to repeal language in the Palestinian Charter that called for the
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readiness bombined with the pursuit of-- in Thomas Jefferson's phrase: "peace, commerce, and
honest friJndship with all nations."
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erstwhile enemies, that there is often great wisdom in carefully extending the hand offriendship,
helping olir former adversaries, and working together, step-by-step, to replace enmity with trust.
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hostilitieslbetween peoples can never be overcome. But that argument must not end our efforts,
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it, and longstanding hostilities are sometimes merely evidence that peace is difficult, not proof
that peaceiis impossible. That view is part of our .quintessentially American faith in the future.·
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· invitation pf Israel -- to intensify American engagement in the pursuit of Middle East peace. We
involved ourselves in shuttle diplomacy -- helping bring messages back and forth between Israel
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concludedlthat we would have to make a jump forward if we were ever to arrive at permanent
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directly erigaged with the parties in the search for an agreement. We became directly involved in
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peace on the part of Israel and the Palestinians can sometimes, by itself, not be enough t:::J.
overcome :old antagonisms and conquer all mistrust. When the two parties -- in some mix of v
anxiety and exasperation-- found it hard to trust one another, each found it could still trust
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they kno~ we have an unshakeable commitment to Israeli security. The Palestinians trust us
because they know we believe in the possibility of peace with security for them. And both the
Israelis an~ the Palestinians trust us because -- at a time when so many in the world still despair
of their evbr finding peace -- they know we Americans believe -- deep in our hearts and against
much pre~ailing opinion -- that all of us as human beings are capable of peace.
President Clinton and I do not underestimate the obstacles to peace or the barriers that stand in
its way; ard let's not delude ourselves that these are just hewn from the malice or blindness of
individuals or polities. There are real differences of interests and of ideology that underlay the
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common doncems and common hopes. And itis these which persuade us that, in the end, Israel
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--because; in this age of advancing technology, there can be no long-term plan for security,
without long-term support of peace.
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become our allies; many of our adversaries have become our partners. · Even in the case of our
current co*frontation with the Iraqi dictator, which is as serious a confrontation as you can find
in the world today, we still do not feel it is a conf~ontation between peoples. ·
We have always supported the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people. For example, in 1991, we
first propo~ed the oil for food program to assure there would be adequate food and medicine in
Iraq, espedially foriraqi children. It was Saddam's regime that for four long years -- at great
cost in hurhan suffering -- refused to allow his people the benefits of this program. Saddam has
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developing the welfare of his people. The United States is willing to look at ways to improve
the effecti{reness of the humanitarian programs in Iraq, including lifting current ceilings on funds
which can lbe used to purchase food and medicine. The fact is, we have deep sympathy for the
Iraqi people, and we look forward to friendly relations between our two countries as soon as Iraq
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This is the! essential optimism of the American spirit -- the optimism that alone can unlock the
energy anq effort we need to succeed in our pursuit of peace. That American optimism is
nowhere better embodied than in our 42nd President-- whose range of political risk-taking on
behalf of ~eace is world-wide -- in Bosnia, in Haiti, in Northern Ireland, and of course, in the
Middle East.
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signing of~he Wye Memorandum hoped aloud for the dawn of a comprehensive peace in the
Middle Eakt --Jordan's King Hussein.
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Eisenhow~r. On the subject of the peace we are seeking, I have never-- with all due respect and
all the affe:ction that I held for your predecessors -- known someone with your dedication, clearheadedness, focus and determination to help resolve.this issue."
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peace; King Hussein, who summoned the strength and the will to travel to Wye River to make
several c~cial interventions; Prime Minster Netanyahu and Chairman Arafat, who were willing
to take political and personal risks for peace -- all gave us reason to take heart.
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the anxietiks of the other participant. But, after all, it is not we who will live with what we
propose. I~ is Israel and the Palestinians, Israel and its other neighbors who will do that. So,
while our ~resence in these negotiations is important, it·is the negotiating parties themselves who
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President ~d I call on both sides to implement Wye as signed, with no new conditions. We
knew at Wye that implementation would be difficult. Events have borne that out. Now is the
time to resrmmon the spirit of Wye, and resume the process of peace.
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historical suspense waiting for the democratic process to work its wilL What happens in the
Israeli eledtions is a matter for Israel to decide. Watching a democratic election in a truly
democrati6 society is a wondrous thing. Governments are democratically elected and
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governmel)ts are either democratically re-elected or democratically replaced. And the voice of
the people!oflsrael, diverse as it is and just as one would expect in a democracy, ilideed even
raucous asiit sometimes is-- that voice is always strong. It is not for the United States
Governmeht to express a view or a preference. It is for us to remain true to bedrock principles.
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of the Statb of Israel, and the United States of America will continue to devote all its faith,
energy, and optimism to the pursuit of peace in the Middle East. Not a narrow peace, a separate
peace, a fleeting peace, or a forced peace -- but a comprehensive peace that benefits all the
people of tpe Middle East -- because that is the only kind of peace that can endure. Thank you.
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Oct. 3. 1934; s. Kermit H. and Rachel (Ehrlich) P.; m. Barbara Patricia
Sondik, Dec. II, 1966: cbildrm: Kermit, Eric. B.A.• Bnmcteis U., 1956;
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mem. com.· visiton U. Mich. Law Scb.; bd. fdlows Harvard Med. Scb.
Recipient Human R.ds. aW...d Am. Jewish Com .• 1995, Phoenix· H.S. Pub.
Svc. award, 1999. Man. Econ. Cub of N.Y. Home: 39 E 79th St New
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Copyright 1980 Forbes, Inc.
Forbes
May 12, 1980, Annual Directory Issue
SECTION: FACES BEHIND THE FIGURES; Pg. 90
LENGTH: .4 58 words
HEADLINE: Bullish on MLWW
BYLINE: Subrata N. Chakravarty; Edited by Robert J. Flaherty
BODY:
Soon after Merrill Lynch acquired White Weld in April 1978, there was dark
speculation in a magazine' article that the departure of a few key White Weld
people could greatly diminish the value of the.acquisition. A week later Louis
Perlmutter, head of White Weld's mergers and acquisitions group, left for the
more congenial boutique atmosphere of Lazard Freres, joining the exodus of
hundreds of other White Weld personnel.
'So how is the Merrill Lynch White Weld Capital Markets Group doing after the
departure of Perlmutter and others? Nicely, thank you, says Perlmutter's
protege and successor, 38-year-old Carl Ferenbach.
Today MLWW is taking part in
more mergers and acquisitions than any other firm.
At the moment, among other
things, MLWW is advising the Liggett Group as it grapples with a takeover bid by
the U.K.'s Grand Metropolitan Ltd.
When Perlmutter left, ex-marine and Harvard M.B.A. Ferenbach was given the
job of organizing MLWW.Why didn't he go with his mentor? "I had the opportunity
to run my own show here," he says. Not that it was much of a show.
Merrill
Lynch had practically no mergers and acquisitions business, though it had
created a group shortly before the acquisition.
Blending the two groups was
difficult: "There was little coordination, just a lot of bodies," Ferenbach
recalls.
Ferenbach decided the key to success was convincing Merrill Lynch's
impressive roster of corporate clients to use its new mergers and acquisitions
services.
"There was a certain amount of initial resistance," he admits.
But
as his team got a few small deals and did well with them, the business began to
grow.
In 1978 MLWW completed 48 deals.
That was more than any other firm, but only
three exceeded $250 million, the largest being Beatrice Foods' $490 million
acquisition of Tropicana Products.
In dollar. terms -- where it counts -- MLWW's
$3.9 billion in mergers and acquisitions was less than half that of leader
Morgan Stanley.
In 1979 MLWW dropped to 31 deals, but 8 were over $250 million and 3 over
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$500 million for a $5.3 billion total.
The largest: McGraw-Edison's $750
million acquisition of Studebaker-Worthington.
Despite the chaotic environment, 1980 is off to a good start, with eight
deals totaling more than $1 billion and several more in the works.
Two that are
in the news, apart from the Liggett Group defense: MLWW advised Allergan
Pharmaceuticals, which was recently acquired by SmithKline for $260 million in
stock after two upward renegotiations; and it is advising Sundance Oil, which is
looking for a buyer and will probably sell out for several hundred million
dollars.
Says Ferenbach: "I would expect that within five years we'll be the
biggest in the business."
GRAPHIC: Photo, Ferenbach of Merrill Lynch, First in deals, but not yet in
dollars. John Chang McCurdy
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February 25, 1994, Friday, City Edition
SECTION.: METRO /REGION; Pg. 2 3
LENGTH: 421 words
HEADLINE: Brandeis set to name provost Reinharz as school's 7th president
BYLINE: By Alice Dembner, Globe Staff
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Brandeis University trustees are expected to name provost and Jewish
historian Jehuda Reinharz as the college's seventh president Wednesday.
Reinharz, who earned his doctorate from Brandeis in 1972, would assume the
post June 1, when Samuel 0. Thier leaves to become president of Massachusetts
General Hospital.
As provost and senior vice president for academic affairs for the last two
years, Reinharz has overseen the academic life of the Waltham campus and filled
in for Thier in his absence. When Thier announced his impending departure in
December after only 2 1/2 years as president, many faculty, students and alumni
threw their support behind Reinharz as a respected scholar and administrator who
would provide continuity as well as leadership.
Reinharz, who is 49, declined comment yesterday, saying he was awaiting the
trustees' vote ori Wednesday.
University spokeswoman Michal Regunberg said the executive committee of the
trustees had made a recommendation to the full board, which would vote
Wednesday. Although she refused to say whether Reinharz had been recommended,
other university sources confirmed that he was the trustees' choice. Trustees
agreed last month to focus the search on campus, rather than conduct a national
review.
At that time Louis Perlmutter, chairman of the trustees, called Reinharz a
strong candidate. "He's been there and has been a veri important partner,"
Perlmutter said. Perlmutter did not return phone calls from the Globe yesterday.
David Gil, head of a faculty committee reviewing presidential candidates,
said that committee would meet early next week to finalize its recommendation.
Gil said he favored Reinharz.
"He is a highly respected scholar with a special appeal to the main
supporting segment of our university- the Jewish community," said Gil, a
professor of social policy. "He has acted for the president and with the
president, so that reduces the length of the learning curve ....
Born in Israel, Reinharz earned a bachelor's degree from Columbia University
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and a master's degree from Harvard. After receiving his doctorate from Brandeis,
he taught Jewish history at the University of Michigan for 10 years before
returning to the Waltham campus as a tenured p~ofessor. Reinharz headed the
Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry at Brandeis before Thier
tapped
him for the number-two post. A scholar of Zionism and European Jewry, he has
written numerous books, including two volumes of a biography of Zionist leader
Chaim Weizmann.
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The Ethnic NewsWatch
Jewish Advocate, The
October 26, i995
SECTION: Vol. 185; No. 42; Pg. 13
LENGTH: 469 words
HEADLINE: Is peace good business?
BYLINE: Gelbwasser, Michael
BODY:
Is peace good business?.
Broadening its economic base would help Israel "enhance the welfare of its
consumers" and promote peace in the Middle East, a World Bank economist says.
Dr. John Page also says foreign companies investing in the Middle East face
"a challenge to try to be fair as well as try to be politically correct." Page
spoke during "Is Peace Good Business?" a Founders Day symposium at Brandeis
University last weekend.
Page is the chief economist of the World Bank's Middle
East region.
Page noted Israel's "remarkable economic successes" in technology and
fashion.
But Page suggested Israel diversify into products it doesn't do as
well.
Israel's neighbors make some of these items, creating trade
possibilities.
"The toilet paper in Israel is as bad as toilet paper in any other area of
the world," Page said.
Israel also benefits greatly from its access to the North American, Asian and
European markets.
This access works both ways, say some Americans who live and
work in Israel.
"It is no accident that the new restaurant at the Tel Aviv
Hilton is a sushi bar," said moderator Thomas Friedman, a two-time Pulitzer
Prize-winning reporter and foreign columnist for the New York Times.
Page said Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian entity are very compatible
trade partners because "economies that are less similar tend to trade more than
economies that are more similar." Nabil Amari, secretary general of Jordan's
Ministry of Planning, said Israel's per capita income is around $15,000, versus
$1,600 in Jordan.
"There should be some preferential treatment.given to neighboring countries,"
Amari said.
"And this is not only necessary for.us, but also for Israel."
Foreign investments are also crucial to the region's political and economic
survival.
Page said Israel and Egypt have received "the lion's share of
American assistance." That has left much of the region, including Jordan,
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struggiing.
"We know that we cannot make it oh our own," Amari said.
sustained, we need help."
"For peace to be
"Everyone knows what has to be done," said Louis Perlmutter·, chairman of the
Council of Economic Advisors of the U.S./Middle East Project of the Council on
Foreign Relations.
"The thing that really strikes me is how negative the
businessmen are."
Perlmutter said Middle Eastern governments have been slow to enact economic
reforms.
These governments take "small little baby steps" on these measures,
and then they "pull back."
"Democratization is good, although it sometimes hurts," Amari said.
Most of the discussion focused on Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian entity.
But Amari said those three areas cannot integrated the Middle East into the
world economy alone.
"Turkey would be no problem," Amari said.
Lebanon first."
"But we have to go for Syria and
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Minn., Mar. 4. 1918; s. Reuben P. aud Lydia (Stoltz) A.: m. Bertha Benedict,
1938 (div.); I dau., Sandra Ann Andrms McMurtie: m. Dorothy Inez
Snyder. Dec. 21. 1947: children: TerryLynn,. Michael D. Student, Wheaton
(Ill.) Colt., 1935-36: bon. desree. Barry U. V.p., dir. Honeymead Products.
Co., Cedar Rapids. Iowa. 193~ cbmn. bel., chief exec. officer Honeymead
Products Co. (now Nat. Oty Bancorp.), MankAto. Minn .• 1952·72: v.p.
earpn, Inc., Mpls., 1946-52: exec. v.p. Farmers Union Grain Terminal
Assn., St. Paul, 1~: -chmn. bel., chief exec. officer Archer-Daniels-Mid·
luid Co.• Decatur, Ill .• 197~97, chmn: bel,, 1997-98, cbmn. emeritus.J999-;
bd. din. Hollinger Internal. Inc.; mem. Pres.'s Gen. Adv. Qlmmn ... of Fp.
Assistance Programs. 1965-68, Pres.'s Adv. Coun. on Mgmt; Improvement •.
1969-73: cbmn. Pres.'s Task FOrc:e on lntemat. Pvt. Enterprise. · Nat. bel.
din. Boys' Cub· Am.; former cbmn. U.S.-USSR Trade and Econ. Oiun.:
former cbmn. Euc. Coun. on Fp. Diplomats; former· trustee HOover· lnst.
on War, ·Revolution and Peace: former vice cbmn. Woodrow Wilson In•
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memoration of the U.S.. Constitution, 1986. Mem. Fp. Policy Assn. N.Y.
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Decatur, Ill. 62525
For the past twenty years Dwayne Andreas has
been the chairman and chief executive officer of
the commodities company Archer Daniels Mid. land (ADM], which makes vegetable oil, animal
feed, high-fructose . corn syrup~ ethanol, caramel
coloring, sorbitol, ·vege-Burgers (made. of a soy~
based m.eat substitute], and other productS derived
·from corn, wheat, oilseed, or soybeans. A highly influential proponent of increased trade between the
United States and the former Soviet Union, An~
dreas casts himself as "a strong believer that trade
is the greatest promoter of peace and good will on
earth," as he told E. J. Kahn Jr., who profiled him
for the New Yorker (F~bruary 16, 1987]. "I feel
pretty patriotic doing what I'm doing."
As an adviser on international trade to 'five of
the postwar American presidents, Andreas is the
latest in the rather abbreviated line of American
businessmen"""'among them.Armand Hammer, Cyrus S. Eaton, and W. Averell Harriman-with
whom Moscow enjoyed doing business. "My inter.est in the Soviet Union doesn't especially ~elate to·
their doing business with ADM," he insisted during
his interview with Kahn. "It's that any business
they do with the United States is important to our
farm economy. The American wheat and corn and
soybean growers regard people like me as their. avenue to the rest of the globe." ·
Dwayne Orville Andreas was born on March 4,
1918 near Worthington, Minnesota, the fourth of
the five sons of Lydia Barbara (Stoltz) Andreas and
Reuben Peter Andreas, a Mennonite farmer. The
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the yield from their own farm in· Lisbon, Iowa, to
which they moved around 19Z2. "Some. people
would say we were poor, but We didn't think SO,"
Andreas told Kahn. "We canned olir own vegeta- .
bles, grew oats for' our horses, hay for our cows,
corn for our chickens and pigs."
Planning to enter the ministry, Andreas enrolled
. at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois in 1935,
but he quit.at the end of his sophomore year to help
· his father and his older brothers-Osborne, Albert,
·and Glenn-take over a bankrupt grain and feed
business in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Naming the com. pany Honeymead Products, they installed their
·own soybean-crushing plant in 1938 and soon prospered. Thinking that he was about to be called up
when his· draft status was reclassified as 1-A in
.June~ 1945, Andreas sold .most of Honeymead's assets to Cargill, a Minneapolis commodities firm
that. was then the largest grain exporter in the Unit- ·
ed States. (As it turned out, he did not have to serve
in the military.]
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As the vice-president and director of Honeymead, Andreas netted $1.5 million in the sale and
\\'as made vice-president in charge of oilseed processing .at Cargill, where he worked for seven
years. In. 1952 he returned to what the family had
retained of Honeyniead ·under the stewardship of
his younger brother, Lbwell. From 1952 to 1972
Dwayne Andreas served as the chairman and chief
executive officer of Honeymead ·(now known as
National City Bancorporation]; which had moved
its headquarters to Minneapolis.
In 1960 Honeymead was sold for $10 mi~lion to
the Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association, a
farmers' cooperative in St. Paul, Minnesota. In hir. ing Dwayne and Lowell Andreas (the former as executive vice-president], the co-op inadvertently put
Dwayne Andreas in a· rather uncomfortable position, as he recalled in an interview published in
Business Week (June 2, 1973]: "My farmer-owners
· regarded me with suspicion, and so did the corporate executives." The Andreases invested the pro- .
ceeds of the sale in a shell corporation called First ·
Interoceanic, an entity that eventually expanded
into· banking. In 1965 they hought 100,000 shares in
the Minn.eapolis-based grain company Archer
Daniels Midland, paying $3.3 million in what was· ·
essentially a rescue operation performed at the behestof.the Archer and Daniels families, according
to Kahn..
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As the. Andreases began to acquire more ADM
stock on the open market, they were invited to become increasingly involved in running the company. In 1966 Dwayne Andreas became·a director
and member of the executive committee of. the
company. Three years later he moved the comp~
ny's headquarters from Minneapolis to Decatur, Illinois, where ADM. already· had a facility· and
whE)re. the Andreases purchased a soyh,eancrushing installation through First. Interoceanic
Corporation. Andreas was made chief executive
officer of ADM in 1970 and chairman of the board
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Shreve M. Archer Jr., wpo still sits on the compa- er. The combination of one part ethanol to nine
ny's board of directors, was reportedly quoted a~ parts gasoline is known as gasohol, a fuel that prosaying afterward, "Having been actively· involved ·· duces lower carbon monoxide emissions than gaswith.Dwayne.Andreas has been.the most stimuhit-. aline but which, critics claim, contributes to ozone
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. ... · , formation'. Unlike most ethanol producers, . ADM
ing·experience of my life."
Under the.helmsmanship of Dwayne Andreas,· uses wet milling plants, which, in contrast:to the
ADM has grown tremendously. Grossing $8.5 bil- dry milling plants used by other ethanol producers,
lion .in domestic and international sales and earn- are capable of making both HFCSand ethanol. By
·ing $467 million in profits ·during the fiscal year milling all year long, ADM takes full advantage of
that ended on June 30, 1991, ADM comprises about .. seasonal fluctuations in the demand for HFCS,
128 plants, 200 grain elevators, 2,200 barges; 9;000 which is highest in the soft-drink-saturated sum' railcars, and 100 chartered ships. 'In the past tWo mer marketplace, and· the demand for ethanol,
· .·yeats ~loneAnd~eas has spent $1.4'billion on. mod- which rises. in some cities during the cold winter ·
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ernizing his plants, managing to do so while main- months.
taining a very low debt ratid:(long~term debt is only .. · Although ingredie'nts for ready-to-eat soy prod17 percent of total capital) by:reinvesting most of ucts amounted to only 0.5 percent ofADM's total
ADM' s profits. "The key to ciur success is .to have ··sales in 1986, according to E. J. Kahn Jr., the soyenoughplans to invest our rrioney the day we make·. bean has been ari integral part of Andreas's career,
it," Andr~as told a· reporter for Forbes (January 6; providing him. with the raw material:for what has
1992). "Archer Daniels should be viewed as one of ·become virtually his personal crusade. From the
·. the best companies in'the world," Donald Zwyer, . day he joined ADM, Andreas \Vas excited about
a ·Security analyst at Kidder, Peabody, was: quoted · the potential of .the high-protein soybean to proas saying by Ronald Henkoffin Fortune ·(October . vide humans with the basis of a healthful veget'ari- .
8, 1990).
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·an diet. "I knew that ADM was a ·dozen years
. Despite its size and abil~ty to prosper even dur.: ·ahead of everyone else in textured vegetable pro. ing a· recession, ADM remains relatively obscure to · · tein [TVP] research," Andreas was quoted· as saymost members of the general public. "We regard ing in Business Week (June 2, 1973), "and I believed
ourselves as a place where' other big food people that was where the important action was going to
buy their groceries," said an ADM executive quat- · be. Orie of the:first things I did was to take the edi'ed by Kahn. "It is heady impossible for· a. major . '. ble soy out of the lab imd construct a plant in Deca·food company not to do .business with us.·" The tur)o make all the grades of edible'soy protein'.in
company produces, among other things, bakery 1969."
,
and dururri flours, soybean oil and meal, soy flours,
Later, Andreas furnished a Decatur restaurant
linseed oil.and meal, .flax fiber, and cottonseed oil . with TVP-based soybean entrees devised to resemand 'meal. While ADM supplies other, well-known ble chicken ala king or chop suey. ADM's all-soy·
·companies such as Frito-Lay, Wesson, Fleisch- lunch, which includes a taco-dip appetizer and
mann's; and Kentucky Fried Chicken with soq1e of soy-based ice cream, has been served to a delegatheir. primary ingredients~ its own name gpes un~ ... tion from the People's Republic of China and to
re~ognized-except, p~rhaps,. among·~ Sunday-. · former preside1,1t Jim,my Carter. "We give the soymorning television viewers who tune in to .the bean lunch anytime we think we can get away with
ADM-sponsored programs This Week with David · it," Andreas told Kahn. For a while ADM even proBrinkley and. Meet the Press.
.
duced a line of prepackaged .soybean entrees
Some thirty products,· including high-fructose called Uncle Archie's, but it was never distributed
corri syrup (HFCS) and ethanol, that ADM derives . on a wide scale. The company has also been experfroi:n corn generate about half the company's earn- :· hrienting with Protinia, a soy-enriched cereal, and
ings. Americans' consumption of HFCS, an alter~ Nutri-Bev; a soy-based substitute for milk. "I've
native .to sugar, has risen dramatiCally. in recent been frustrated every time I've tded to make ·
yea~~· In 1980 HFCS accounted for only 14.5 per[Nutri~Bev]. We always lose money on it," Andreas
cent Of the sweetener market; by 1989 the' figure told Kahn. "Consumers are fixed in their ways, and
had climbed to 36.6 percent. According to Kahn, you have to go through fire and brimstone to
who wrote a biography of Andreas called Super- change them. If I achieve anything important in my
marketer to .the World (1991), Andreas convinced lifetime, getting people onto a soy diet will be it,"
·
both Pepsi and Coca-Cola to replace s1.1gar with·. he said.
· Andreas's efforts in that direction included esHFCSo-using ADM's "fructose-in .. their ·soft
drink~,As a result cif.that and othe~ coups, ADM • .pausing soybeans· as the ultimate. antidote to £aniis now thenumber~orie produc~r ofHFCS, control- ine while serving on Lyndon B.. Johnson's General
ling nearly one-third· of the HFCS market. As of Advisory Council on Foreign Assistance from·1965
1987 ADM had a $100·inillion. fructose plant in De- to 1968. He visited eight African countries as part
catur and forty corn-sweetener storage terminals· of Vice-President Hubert H .. Humphrey~s entouscattered across the country.
· ..
· rage. "Wherever we went, the national leaders
ADM controls about 65 percent of the ethanol seemed to have been educated in Europe and inmarket in the United Stt,1tes. Ethanol (also called fluenced by the socialist leanings of the London
ethyl alcohol ~md grain alcohol), which can qe dis~·· School of Economics," Andreas recalled during his
tilled from cornstarch, is'a lead-free octane. bo,ost- interview with Kahn. "They all wanted to industriA
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. increasing the production offood. . . . We could NewYork City-based U.S.-USSR Trade and Eco· assure them one good hot meal, including soy pro- nomic Council. Among his acquaintances are the
tein and grain, per day for fifty cents per capita, minority leader of the United States. Senate, Robert
which would increase I.Q.s by one-third; and · J. Dole, RepubliCan of Kansas, and former Speaker
would make people four to five inches taller and of the House of Representatives Thomas P. ("Tip")twenty to twenty-five pounds heavier, and thus ca- O'Neill Jr., Democrat of Massachusetts. Mrs. Nelpable of more sustained work. . . . Food is fue!. son A. Rockefeller and the former Democratic NaYou can't run a tractor without fuel, and you can't . tiona! Committee chairman Robert S. Strauss, who
run a human being without it, either. Food is the was named ambassador to the Soviet Union in
absolute beginning. It may not be the end, but it . l991, serve on Archer Daniels Midland's board of
directors.
sure as hell is the beginning."
On occasion the influence Andreas is thought to
Food was also the fulcrum ofAndreas's forty-·
year role as a mediator between Soviet leaders. and wield-;-not to meri!ion his wealth of congressional
the American government. In 1952, when he was contacts on both sides of the aisle-has been the
vice-president of Cargill, Andreas made the first of source of embarrassing publicity. In 1972 a contiihis more than seventy-five trips to the Soviet bution of $25,000 he made to Nixon's reelection
Union. "Every president from Harry Truman on campaign surfaced- in the bank account of convicthas said to me, 'We want to have more business ed Watergate conspirator Bernard L. Barker.· Hu-with the Russians,"' Andreas recalled to Kahn. bert Humphrey, who was seeking the Democratic
"But the rest of the government is usually split nomination, had also received a donation from Andown the middle, half of it helping you and half of dreas. According to Kahn, when Humphrey was
asked about the seeming inconsistency in Anit fighting you." During the 1950s, for example, AD.dreas's political leanings, he said, "Let's put-it this
·dreas-who was once introduced to Nikita S.
way: Dwayne has friends in both parties." Between
Khrushchev-discovered that the Soviets .would be
1979 and 1990, according to Henkoff, Andreas, his
a perfect customer for surplus American butter. ·relatives, and ADM's own political action commitPresident Dwight D. Eisenhower told him, "I'm for tee "donated more than $1 million to Republican
. selling them anything they can't shoot back," but and Democratic congressional and presidential
Andreas was unable to obtain an export license candidates." "I've never been uncomfortable with
from the McCarthyite officials in charge of grant- -either Republicans or Democrats, because I've
ing him permission. As the world's third-largest never attempted to do anything political," Andreas
importer of food, the Soviet Union has been an im~ explained to Kahn. "In any event, ii:t the farm econportant customer of ADM's, accounting for $250 omy right-wingers and left-wingers and middle-ofmillion in sales in 1989 alone.
. the-roaders are all sort of mixed up, in' a populist
Explaining Andreas's appeal to the Soviets, the sense. Oh, there's a common enemy-,-two common
security analyst. Robert W. Back was quoted_ by enemies, actually. But they're not Democrats or ReRonald Henkoffas saying that Andreas is _"rich, but publicans. They're interest rates and depressed
he doesn't look rich. 'He's an honest-to-God prices."
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nineteenth-century businessman, unencumbered
In 1978, Henkoff reported, ADM was convicted
by ideology." In the Wall Street Journal (December in a price·-fixirig scam involving the federal Food
26, 1986), Mark D'Anastasio quoted· the Harvard for ·Peace program. That year, Andreas and his
lecturerJoseph Finder as notingthat Andreas "has daughter were found to have donated a significant
exactly the huge wealth, influence and knowledge amountof money in ADM stock to a trust fund benin an American businessman that attracts Soviet efiting the children of a membe~ of the regulatory
leaders;" Andreas first met Mikhail Gorbachev on Commodities Futures Trading Commission. "How
Decemb~r 3, 1984, three months before Gorbachev,
the hell could you run a business like mine if you
then minister of agriculture, was ·named general -didn't have communications with the people who
secretary of the Communist party, arid the two men make the big decisions?" Andreas has asked rhehave maintained a close connection ever since. torically, as quoted by Henkoff.
"Agriculture is central to both men and both naAt a 1978 meeting of ADM shareholders, accordtions, whatever the political differences. Andreas ing to Kahn, Andreas expressed his desire to have
helps bridge ~he gap," Back observed to _ a say in· federal matters that affect his company:
D'Anastasio. Aware of the shifting winds of change "Living with the.government in a state of coexisin Soviet politics, Andreas in 1989 invited the radi- tence is like a turkey living with a farmer until
cal reformer Boris·N. Yeltsin, who was later elect-, Thanksgiving. And we don't want to be the turkey
ed president of the Russian Rep~blic, to his Florida in that relationship." Not everyone was comfort~
able with ADM in- the role of the farmer in that
home when Yeltsin visited the United States.
Andreas's government service had begun offi- analogy. The New Republic described ADM as a
cially with his ·appointment to President John F. recipient of "corporate welfare," and the National
Kennedy's American Food for Peace Council and Review labeled Andreas "a robber baron," accordcontinued ·through his' appointment to Richard ing toHenkoff, who quoted Frederick Potter, a forNixon's Advisory Committee ·on Management Im- mer Department of Energy official, as saying,
provement and his chairmanship of Ronald Rea- "There is an agricultural mafia in this town, and
gan's Task Force on International Private Dwayne Andreas is its kingpin." .
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Not all of Andreas's donations have. been made Illinois, sixteen miles from Decatur; and New York
in the political arena. Thrc:mgh th~ Andreas Foun- City, where he maintains ··an apartment on Fifth
. ·dation he has contributed to dozens of charities, ·Avenue and a company suite in the Waldorf Towincluding the United Way and B'nai B'rith, and he ers, next door to the official residence of the United
works tirelessly not only on behalf of ADM. but States ambassador· to the United Nations. The
also, he contends, to promote world peace and twenty-foot-long swimming pool in his Moweaqua
prosperity through increased trade with the former home provides him with a pulsating current against
. Soviet Union-now the Commonwealth of Inde- which he swims for twenty minutes each morning. ' '
pendent States-and with other less developed His hobbies include playing golf and collecting
countries. He is a member of the Trilateral Com- miniature pigs.
mission, the Union League of Chicago, the Indian
Creek Country Club of Miami Beach, the Minikah- References: Bsns W p54 Je 2 '73 por; Fortune
da Club of. Minneapolis, and :,the Blind Brook · 122:105+ 0 8 '90 pors; NY Times D p1+1126 '78
. Country Club of Purchase, New York, and he has por; New Yorker 62:41+ F 16 '87 por; Wall St T
·been the director of the Foreign Policy Association . . pl.+D 26 '86 por; Kahn, E. f., Jr. Supermarketer
·In 1985 Andreas became chairman of the Ecoilom- to the World {1991}; Who's Who inAmerica,
. ic Club of New York, and in New York City he is 1990-91; Who's Who in the World, 1991-92
· a member of the Knickerbocker Club, the Links
Club, and the Friars Club: When asked by Kahn if
he. had considered retiring, .Andreas replied, "I
have too much still to. do. A third of all the business
in the world is my kind of business, and the longer
you're in it the more things you see that need to be
done. When you see that they're not done, you get
very uneasy, and the next thing you kriow you're
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trying to do them yourself."
In his view, Andreas's primary_ objective_:.
converting people to a soy-based dief-would not
only make money for ADM but would also contribute to the eradication of world hunger. "Let's say
that there are 500 million people alive who can't
live as humans ought to be able to," he suggested
in his interview with Kah~. "If I.were in charge, I'd
· see to it that as the underpinning of their daily food
. requirement they got a bowl of porridge made of
wheat and corn and soybeans. A few greens, and
some cassava for starch, and there you'd be-and
all for twenty-five cents per capita .... I guess,
when you come right down to it, if there's one thing
I've learned in, all these years it's that if we really
want to feed the world we can."
Dwayne Andreas, who "bears a corporeal resemblance to JamesCagney," in Henkoff's opinion,
is a health-conscious, well-dressed man standing ·
five feet, four inch~s tall and weighing 137 pounds.
From his marriage in 1938 to Bertha Benedict,
which ended in divorce, he has one daughter, San- Ashdown, Paddy
dra Ann Andreas McMurtrie. In 1947 Andreas
married Dorothy Inez Snyder (called Inez), who al~ Feb. 27, 1941- British political leader. Address:
ready had a daughter, Terry, from a previous mar- House of Commons, London SW1A OAA,
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riage; . together they . have. one son, Michael England
, ("Mick"). Andreas's daughter served on: VicePresident Humphrey's staff and, in 1981, on behalf "I passionately believe we stand at the very center
of the Catholic Relief Services, traveled to Calcut- of the nineties agenda for Britain. It is about citita, where she met Mother. Teresa; she subsequently zenship, about Evrope, about taking the environworked at Gift of Peace in Washington, D.C., a· ment .··seriously, about' education. 1 am very
home founded by Mother Teresa for the indigent confident." Whe~ Paddy Ashdown, the leader of
dying and for AIDS patients. His stepdaughter has. the Liberal 'Democratic party, uttered those words
been a founder and chairman of the School for in .1991 he had every reason to qe confident.
Field Studies, and his son is the executive vice-. Thanks in part to public disenchantment with the
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president of ADM.
two major parties caused by the worst economic
Andreas divides his time between Bal Harbour,· downturn in Great Britain since the Great DepresFlorida, where he owns two apartments at the Sea sion, the Liberal Democrats, the third strongest
View Hotel; suburban. Minneapolis; Moweaqua, party in British politiCs and the heir to the social
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November 18, 1996
SECTION: PEOPLE; EXECUTIVE SUITE; Number 3502; Pg. 82
LENGTH: 1709 words
HEADLINE:
IT ISN'T DWAYNE'S WORLD ANYMORE
BYLINE: By Richard A. Melcher in Chicago, Greg Burns in Decatur, Ill., and
Douglas Harbrecht in Washington
HIGHLIGHT:
Andreas' clout at ADM is fading, his dynastic dream is dead
BODY:
It was a stunning moment when Dwayne 0. Andreas, chairman of Archer Daniels
Midland Co., stood before the annual meeting on Oct. 17 and apologized to
shareholders for the scandal that has embroiled the company. Only two days
earlier, ADM had pleaded guilty to two criminal counts of price-fixing, agreeing
to pay a $ 100 million fine and to help the government build a case against two
executives, one of them Andreas' only son and heir apparent, Michael D. ''Mick''
Andreas.
A mea culpa from Dwayne Andreas, an executive accustomed to running his
company like a fief? Dwayne Andreas, who at 1995's annual meeting had shouted
down restive shareholders and insisted the meeting would run by ''my rules''?
The very idea shows how the world is changing for the 78-year-old soybean king.
And as Andreas' influence wanes, so does a corporate culture profoundly shaped
by his personality. BITTER. Both Andreas and ADM have thrived on the freedom to
make their own rules with little outside scrutiny. But the secrecy that doing
business in remote Decatur·, Ill., affords has been cracked. And the scandal has
spurred action beyond what most observers expected from the insular company. A
committee of directors drawn from a board long criticized for its unwavering
support of Andreas has proved surprisingly willing to impose new governance
standards. At the same time, another committee put aside personal loyalty to
Andreas, and concern for his son, to cooperate with the government.
The deal means that ADM managers -- Dwayne Andreas perhaps included -- could
end up providing evidence against Michael Andreas and Terrance S. Wilson, who
have been told they are likely to face criminal charges. Andreas' plans to
create a dynasty, nurtured since the 1970s, have been derailed. After the annual
meeting, Director Brian Mulroney revealed that Mick, 47, had taken a ''temporary
administrative leave'' and Wilson, a 59-year-old vice-president, had retired.
ADM refuses to say whether it is still paying Mick's $ 1.3 million salary.
Outwardly, the tough son of Mennonite farmers is showing his trademark
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resilience. Hours after the Oct. 17 meeting, at dinner in his home overlooking
Lake Decatur, Andreas was ''in a very up mood,'' buoyed by the standing ovation
with which shareholders had greeted his apology, recalls John R. Block, a former
Agriculture Secretary and new board member. They were joined by Democratic
power broker and fellow board member Robert s. Strauss, one of Andreas •:· closest
friends.
Before the meeting, Strauss says, he advised the CEO, who rarely minces
words, that everything he was going to say ''ought to be written down . .''
Andreas complied, and he betrayed no emotion, even as he told shareholders: ''It
has been a difficult time for my family and me.'' In fact, the investigation and
settlement have been a ''terrible ordeal,'' says Strauss. ''While he's pretty
self-contained, I'm sure he's had many a sleepless night.'' Indeed; one source
says that in recent months Andreas has taken to calling friends at all hours to
talk.
Strauss and other longtime friends say Andreas feels angry and betrayed.
He's especially bitter that the government ,had ADM executive-turned-mole Mark
Whitacre tape hundreds of hours of executive-office conversations. In August,
1995, soon after Whitacre's role was revealed, ADM..fired him, alleging he had
embezzled $ 9 million while collecting price-fixing evidence against it, a
charge Whitacre denies. While Andreas declined to speak with BUSINESS WEEK for
this story, citing ''pending legal proceedings,'' he did fax the magazine three
legal documents to support the company's charges against Whitacre.
Andreas' pique extends to the press -- he has accused reporters of printing
''fairy tales'' about him and ADM-- and he is said to believe that activist
shareholders obsessed with board independence haven't a clue about the demands
of running an agribusiness conglomerate. But seeing Mick's future in jeopardy is
the worst part, says Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, president of Miami's Barry
University, a longtime recipient of Andreas family largesse. ''To hurt the son
is to wound the father,'' says O'Laughlin. ''He's in some pain.''
Before the investigation, ADM was best known for its record of steady
expansion under Andreas, chairman and CEO since 1970. Brought in as a
troubleshooter in 1966, he pushed the company into international markets,
relentlessly focused on wringing out costs, and created oodles of new products
from corn and soybeans. Under Andreas, sales rocketed from $ 320 million to $
13.3 billion, while ADM's market value soared from$ 78 million to$ 11.8
billion.
Even as Andreas cultivated political friends from Mikhail Gorbachev to Bob
Dole, outsiders could never penetrate the company's veil. ADM disclosed only
minimal information to investors, arguing.that it couldn't afford to be more
open than privately held competitors such as Cargill. Board membership was kept
largely among family and friends. As ADM barged into new markets, rivals and
regulators accused it of everything from fixing prices to stealing technology.
Dwayne took it in stride, and the board followed suit. ''He pushed things
awfully close to the edge, but it was absolutely legal,'' says a former senior
insider. ''The fact that he spent his whole life running yellow lights didn't
bother us.'' WINNING RESPECT. No one.doubted that Mick would succeed his father.
But the elder Andreas didn't make things easy for him. Dwayne was a difficult
taskmaster who demanded that Mick, who joined ADM in the early 1970s, learn
agribusiness from the topsoil up. By the early 1980s, Mick was winning respect
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within the company for his skilled handling of complex trading operations at the
Chicago Board of Trade. He later oversaw much of management, sales, and trading,
working side by side with President James R. Randall. Even as he climbed to
vice-chairman in 1985,. however, he remained all but unknown to investors. But
board members were comfortable with his pending ascension.
All that went awry in the summer of 1995, wh~n the news broke that Whitacre
had been an FBI informant for the previous three years. By July, .the board
established an eight-member committee, with separate counsel, to handle talks
with the government. Since press reports indicated that Whitacre was implicating
Mick, the group was instructed not,to discuss its negotiations with other
directors or management. By January, the group began settling a raft of civil
suits that have so far cost ADM $ 90 million. But the group thought the
government's criminal case, dependent as it was on Whitacre, might be weak.
Sources say the committee considered fighting the charges until August, when
three foreign companies that conspired with.ADM pleaded guilty.
Committee members were well aware of the elder And~eas' concern about how
their actions would affect the fate of his son. In fact, sources say that,
several members' worries about Mick.and Wilson led to delays in cutting a deal.
The committee resolved, however, to negotiate only.on'behalf of shareholders. In
the end, the key stumbling block was the size of ADM's fine. The government's
initial proposal -- $ 120 million -- sent committee members into ''sticker
shock, ' ' say several sources. When the two· sides· settled .on $ 100 million,
investors -- relieved that the uncertainty was over -- sent ADM stock up to a
record 22. PRESSURE. Yet shareholder activists remain frustrated. True, ADM
followed through on a January, 1996, report by the new governance committee,
reducing its board from 17 to 12 and cutting insider representation. But efforts
to build goodwill were undermined when Andreas sent shareholders a letter
questioning the value of independent directors .. At the annual meeting,
shareholders signaled that changes haven't gone far enough, mustering a
surprisingly strong 42% vote for a stricter definition of outside director. On
Nov. 13, Andreas, after years of ignoring activists, will meet with the
California Public Employees' Retirement System.
Now, an uncertain succession looms, and an executive revamp announced on
Oct. 31 does nothing to resolve it, directors say. To share some of his duties,
Andreas has created an ''office of the chief executive'' consisting of Randall;
Charles T. Bayless, head of the processing division; and G. Allen Andreas Jr., a
53-year-old vice-president and Dwayne's nephew. But those moves merely fill the
gaps left by Mick's absence. ADM could still turn to an outsider or acquire
another agribusiness company with management talent.
How long will Andreas remain at the helm? Directors say ADM needs him to
stay on -- perhaps for a few years -- to ensure a smooth transition. But even if
his epochal career hasn't yet drawn to a close, the world as Dwayne Andreas has
known it will never be the same.
Shock Waves At ADM
FALL, 1992: Dwayne Andreas asks the FBI to investigate suspected plant sabotage.
During probe, Vice-President.Mark Whitacre becomes government informant,
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alleging price-fixing.
JUNE, 1995: FBI raids ADM headquarters. Within weeks, Whitacre is exposed as
mole.
JULY, 1995: Special board committee is formed to negotiate with government
concerning price-fixing allegations.
AUGUST, 1995: After accusing Whitacre of embezzling $ 9 million, ADM
him.
dismisse~
JANUARY, 1996: New corporate governance committee recommends shrinking board,
cutting number of inside directors. Andreas offers to leave board but is kept
on.
OCT. 15, 1996: ADM pleads guilty to two criminal charges and agrees to pay $ 100
million fine and help government build case against two executives, Terrance
Wilson and Andreas' son and heir apparent, Michael Andreas.
OCT. 17, 1996: Dwayne Andreas apologizes to shar.eholders at annual meeting.
Wilson retires and Michael Andreas takes ''administrative leave.'' Eight board
members step down; three come aboard. Twelve-member board now includes four
independent directors.
OCT. 31, 1996: To share some of his duties, Dwayne Andreas creates an ''office
of chief executive,'' consisting of executives James Randall, Charles Bayless,
and G. Allen Andreas Jr., Dwayne's nephew.
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HEADLINE: Andreas Retires as Chief of Archer Daniels
BYLINE:
By KURT EICHENWALD
BODY:
After more than a quarter of a century at the helm of the Archer Daniels
Midland Company, Dwayne 0. Andreas retired yesterday as chief executive of the
company and was replaced by his nephew, G. Allen Andreas Jr. The elder Mr.
Andreas will remain as chairman.
The succession culminates an astonishing family story played out over more
than two years, in which Dwayne Andreas's hopes of turning the corporate reins
over to his son Michael were shattered amid a price-fixing scandal that has cost
the company, an agribusiness giant, close to $200 million in fines and
settlements.
Wall Street analysts said yesterday that the elder Mr. Andreas, who is 79
years old, had over time been less involved in the daily operations of the
company, instead relying on other senior managers to handle those
responsibilities while he focused on strategic direction.
As a result, analysts said, they expected little change at Archer Daniels,
particularly with Mr. Andreas continuing as chairman.
Indeed, the selection of Allen Andreas, who once ran the company's operations
in Europe, had been widely expected. As the price-fixing scandal unfolded, he
became the corporate face of Archer Daniels for institutional shareholders.
Since late last year he has shared control of the company with his uncle and two
other executives.
"Allen Andreas was the logical choice to assume the position of chief
executive from an experience point of view," said Leonard Teitelbaum, an analyst
with Merrill Lynch & Company. "Dwayne Andreas will be in a position to continue
to influence the company's progress, especially in the international scene."
Shares of the company were little affected by the news, rising 12.5 cents, to
$17.625, on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday.
For years, institutional investors have criticized Archer Daniels as having
an insular management and a board that was not sufficiently independent of the
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elder Mr. Andreas. And indeed, some analysts expressed qualms about the
selection of another Andreas family member.
"It is always a little suspicious when a relative of the chief executive gets
named as the replacement," said Ann Yerger, director of research at the Council
of Institutional Investors. "You would hope that with the situation that this
company was in, they would dig a little deeper."
But some institutional investors said that despite those appearances Allen
Andreas was the best choice. "At first glance, one would always suspect
nepotism," said Louis Ehrenkrantz, a principal with Ehrenkrantz King Nussbaum, a
money manager that invests' in Archer Daniels. "But the truth is he has been
around the company for a while, and has done a very good job. He knows the
business, and it will be a very smooth transition."
0. Glenn Webb, who was chairman of the board's succession committee, said
that the possibility of selecting a new chief executive at Archer Daniels was
set in play early last year, when the directors approved a series of corporate
governance proposals. One recommended that the jobs of chairman and chief
executive be held by different indiv.idu,als.
In February of this year, Mr. Webb said, Dwayne Andreas asked the committee
to begin the process of dividing the two posts. From the beginning, Mr. Webb
said, Allen Andreas was the leading candidate for the chief executive's job. In
the end, Mr. Webb said, he was the only person interviewed, though the comittee
reviewed the resumes of a number of industry executives.
"We thought he was the best choice that we had," Mr. Webb said. "He has
demonstrated to our satisfaction that he has the capability to be a very astute
chief executive."
As part of the succession, Allen Andreas was also named as a director of the
company. Lowell Andreas, Dwayne's brother, retired from the same post. In
addition, Andrew Young, the former United States representative to the United
Nations, was named as a director.
When the elder Mr. Andreas became chief executive in 1970, Archer Daniels was
a comparatively small, regional agricultural processing company. But over the
years, he oversaw a rise in sales to more than $13 billion through rapid
acquisitions, product-line expansions and entries into foreign markets.
At the same time, he became known for shaping Archer Daniels into a political
force. With hefty contributions to both Republicans and Democrats, the company
helped form the nation's agricultural policies.
The price-fixing scandal arose in 1995, when Federal agents raided the
company's headquarters in Decatur, Ill. It soon emerged that a senior executive,
Mark Whitacre, had been working as an informant for the Government for more than
two years, secretly taping meetings during which price-fixing was said to have
been discussed.
In October, the company admitted fixing prices for two commodities, and
agreed to pay a record $100 million fine. Three executives -- including Michael
Andreas and Mr. Whitacre -- were subsequently indicted on price-fixing charges .
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January 26, 1999, Tuesday, PM cycle
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HEADLINE: Dwayne Andreas steps down as chairman of the board at ADM
DATELINE: DECATUR, Ill.
BODY:
Dwayne Andreas is stepping down after 28 years as chairman of the board at
Archer Daniels Midland Co., but he still is expected to cast a long shadowoffering advice, opinions and guidance to the nephew replacing him.
"If you think this man is going to go down and captain his shuffle board team
in Florida, you can forget about it," said Leonard Teitelbaum, a managing
director with Merrill Lynch Global Securities who follows ADM.
Andreas, 80, will serve as chairman emeritus while remaining a member of the
board, which will now be chaired by Allen Andreas, his nephew and the company's
chief executive officer, ADM announced Monday.
Dwayne Andreas' savvy use of political connections is credited for much of
the company's growth from a regional processor of grain to an agribusiness
giant.
But he also headed ADM when it was rocked by a price-fixing scandal that
likely took an emotional toll on Andreas, said John McMillin, an analyst with
Prudential Securities.
"You shouldn't be surprised when an 80-year-old executive retires, but I was
a bit here. I thought he might die in his boots. His life has been this
company," McMillin said.
Andreas' son, Michael - on leave as an executive vice president,- was thought
to be a potential heir to the chairmanship before he and two former employees
were convicted last fall on federal price-fixing charges. They are scheduled to
be sentenced Feb. 26.
ADM also pleaded guilty to two criminal charges in 1996 and paid $ 100
million in federal fines for fixing prices for the feed additive lysine and
citric acid.
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The probe caused Dwayne Andreas to be the target of increasing criticism from
shareholders and others for his iron-fisted control of ADM, which included
putting close friends and relatives both on the board of directors and in top
executive jobs.
Allen Andreas, 55, joined the company in 1973 and has served as treasurer,
vice president-Europe and special counsel to the executive committee.
McMillin said large shareholders feel that Allen Andreas is open to them
having more input in the direction of the company.
But David Messick, a professor of business ethics at Northwestern
University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management said "it's kind of a pity he
is to be followed by another_ family member.
"It's a publicly owned company that has been run like a family operation for
a very long time and that's probably not in the best interest of shareholders,"
Messick said:
In trading Monday on the New York Stock Exchange, ADM's stock closed up 18
1/2 cents at $ 15.75.
Dwayne Andreas joined ADM in 1966 and was elected chairman and CEO in 1970 at
a time when ADM owned 40 processing plans and employed fewer than 3,000 people.
The company now employs 23,000 worldwide, owns 274 processing plants and had
net sales in 1998 of more than $ 16 billion, company officials said. ADM
produces everything from soybean oil to high-fructose corn syrup to cocoa
powder.
Sam Peltzman, a professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of
Business who specializes in antitrust and government regulation, said he doubted
the price-fixing scandal will overshadow what Andreas helped ADM accomplish.
"It's been a successful business. Whatever you think of the man, you have to
give Andreas a lot of credit for it. His main success was his ability to play
Washington politics as much as the business side," Peltzman said.
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THE ORLANDO SENTINEL
April 23, 2000 Sunday, METRO
SECTION: EDITORIALi Pg. G3
LENGTH: 586 words
HEADLINE: IS LITTLE ELIAN JUST A PAWN IN AN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHEME?
BYLINE: By Charley Reese of The Sentinel Staff
BODY:
Mash almost any of America's foreign-policy postules and what will ooze out
is big business in pursuit of money. It now seems that even little Elian
Gonzalez has become a pawn in an international business scheme.
By the time you read this, some outcome may have occurred. Nevertheless what
follows is important background. All of the information comes from the Archer
Daniels Midland Shareholders Watch Committee.
In the fall of 1995, ADM's chairman, Dwayne Andreas, met with Fidel Castro
for dinner in New York. In July 1996, Andreas announced that he was going to
Cuba to see Castro. He said he contemplated building a refinery in Cuba but
would do it through a Spanish subsidiary because of the trade embargo.
In 1997, a Spanish company invested $65 million in Cuba for a refinery for
the production of alcohol from molasses. In October 1999, Martin Andreas, senior
vice president, said ADM would consider constructing a vegetable-oil plant in
Cuba if the market were open.
Last January the Cuban government announced that it is moving toward
consideration of a joint-venture type of relationship with ADM. In February, ADM
announced plans for another trade exhibition in Havana in December.
What has this got to do with Elian Gonzalez?
Well, there are a lot of interesting coincidences. Remember the meeting with
the grandmothers at the home of the president of Barry University?
Dwayne Andreas is a large contributor to Barry University, and his
graduate and is past chairman of the board of trustees. The president
university was initially in favor of returning Elian to his father -meeting with the grandmothers convinced her that the Cuban government
calling the shots.
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Last October, Andrew Young, an ADM board member and m~mber of the
public-policy committee, was installed as president of the National Council of
Churches, an old left front group, which has taken the lead in urging that Elian
be returned to his father.
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Gregory Craig, the high-priced lawyer who suddenly materialized to represent
Juan Gonzalez,- who couldn't afford two seconds of Craig's time, is part of a law
firm that also represents ADM. Craig is ostensibly being paid by the National
Council of Churches.
That seems like an awful lot of coincidences linking Elian Gonzalez with ADM,
which calls itself the supermarket to the world. Castro is like any other
communist dictator. If you want to cut deals with him, you have to kiss his
backside. If you want to open a news bureau in Havana, you have to kiss his
backside. Castro wants the kid back, and what do you know?
A leftist church group and a high-priced lawyer, both with ADM connections,
pop up to lead the campaign. And, no surprise, the big American news media jump
on the same bandwagon.
Castro, by the way, has already said Elian will be sent to a boarding school
in Havana, where Cuban psychologists will straighten out his mind. Castro's
daughter, who lives in Spain, had already warned that. would be Elian's fate if
he's handed over to the dictator.
The Cuban exile community has always known that the question is not one of
familial custody but one of freedom or a kid being sacrificed to a ruthless
communist dictator.
One day I may find an American foreign policy that does not cause me to
become nauseated. By and large, it is safe to. say that the American government
generally disgusts me, as do much of American big business and much of the
American news media. Liberty gets a cold reception from all three.
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'June 26, 2000, .·Monday, .BC cycle
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LENGTH: 675 words
HEADLINE: More jail time ordered for ADM execs Andreas and Wilson
BYLINE: By MIKE ROBINSON, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: CHICAGO
BODY:
A federal appeals court ordered more prison time (or two former Archer
Daniels .Midland Co. executives Monday, saying that ~s leaders of a $100 million
antitrust conspiracy they deserved longer sentences.
Under the decision, Michael D. Andreas and Terrance W. Wilson, ·now serving
two-year sentences in federal prison, would go back to court to receive stiffer
sentences. Before doing that, though, they could ask the appeals c~urt to
reconsider or take the issue to the Supreme Court.
They were convicted in September 1998, along with Mark D. Whitacre, of
conspiring to set the price and sales volume in the huge world market for lysine
- a feed additive that promotes growth in hogs and poultry.
Andreas, the son of former ADM.Chairman Dwayne Andreas, could be facing as
much as an additional year in prison under federal sentencing guidelines. Wilson
could be sentenced to nine to 12 months more.
The giant, Decatur-based agribusiness company calls i'tself the "supermarket
to the world," with global sales of $14 billion in 1999 and 23,000 employees.
The elder Andreas, now chairman emeritus; is a major contributor to both
political parties and has counted some of the most powerful names on Capitol
Hill among his friends.
Michael Andreas was vice chairman of the board while Wilson was president of
the company's big corn-processing division.
They were convicted of conspiring with five Asian competitors to set prices
and sales volume for lysine, an amino acid made from soybeans.
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from the government for added prison time on the grounds that the two men were
leaders of the conspiracy. Manning held that they were no more to blame for the
scheme than many of the other participants.
But the 62-page appeals decision written by Judge Michael S. Kanne said that
Andreas and Wilson were actually leaders of the conspiracy.
"ADM'S market power gave Andreas the ability to coerce the other cartel
members into submission, and the evidence is clear that he used that power to
lead the conspiracy," the court said.
It said the fact that his power was not absolute "does not negate the
conclusion that Andreas was the ultimate leader of the price-fixing cabal." It
said Wilson also played a leadership role.
"He appears on countless tapes proposing ways to run the cartel and ways to
make it more efficient," the opinion said.
In Washington, federal officials immediately described the decision as a
major victory.
"We are very pleased with the court of appeals decision reaffirming that
price fixing is a major criminal offense that merits significant punishment,"
said Joel I. Klein, assistant. attorney general in charge of the Justice
Department's antitrust division.
Defense attorney Reid Weingarten, who represented Wilson, declined to comment
before reading the opinion. "Obviously, I'm not' thrilled with what you've told
me," he said from his Washington office.
Andreas attorney John Bray could not be reached immediately.
Whitacre, a biochemist and business executive hired by ADM to develop its
lysine production division, was not party to the appeal.
He is current'ly in federal prison after pleading guilty to swindling ADM out
of $9 million and funneling the money into bank accounts in Switzerland and
elsewhere.
It was Whitacre who launched the investigation in the first place. He told
Michael Andreas that a Japanese business executive named Fujiwara had told him
that saboteurs were at work in the lysine plant and would disclose their names
in return for a substantial payment. But Whitacre had made up the story in hopes
of getting the money himself.
Instead of paying the money, Dwayne Andreas phoned the Central Intelligence
Agency. But the CIA said it_ was a case for the FBI and agents then called on
Whitacre. Realizing that his scam had backfired, Whitacre told the agents that
price fixing was going on and volunteered to become an undercover mole and help
get the goods on ADM executives.
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