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Sunday. November 30. 1986 "A-r Cm Prr-r' i gf. F- ft (Mt UMITARY From Dl X0LAS FromD-3 hours a day, not tochJdtef the at most relentless trn'sUcg. The money to ri-at, howevir altbou-h he will only say he etru as much as the partnen of a ttf law firm, It to estimated Hall 1 aaakea about Fran D2 Hall spends idste of his teat which impacts on the country's for eign relations which this one does," Salibra said.

He said California has managed to keep its tax system because of a Supreme Court decision concerning a US. corporation. The high court upheld unitary taxation in that case because it did not affect foreign commerce. Salibra said the Supreme Court in the same case acknowledged it might reach a different conclusion on the Impact on foreign commerce if a foreign parent were the object of the tax. Salibra said the Alcan case has been Joined by more than a dozen foreign governments, which have submitted briefs as friends of the court.

Salibra said the new California law does not concern his case "because it doesn't repeal the old one and hence it is unacceptable to us." Salibra did not disagree with some US. companies' contention they would suffer a competitive disadvantage if foreign parents are exempt from the law. "Countries and states can tax their citizens however they wish. That tax may result in putting their citizens at a competitive disadvantage in international markets. However, it is not proper for a state to remedy that by attempting to tax the citizens of other countries, It seems to me the only solution is to change the tax treatment of their own citizens." corporation who asked not to be identified said the new law is disappointing.

"Foreign-based companies may have come out ahead, but even they have the problem of the election fee. Ninety percent of the companies will not make the Selection and will be stuck with the "old system." The California unitary taxation system has survived at least two legal challenges by foreign companies. Both those cases were dismissed by federal appeals courts on grounds that foreign companies do have legal standing to challenge a state law. A third case, filed two years ago In the VS. District Court in Chicago by Alcan Aluminium Ltd.

of Canada, is expected to be decided soon. Alcan attorneys are confident of victory and predict the case will ultimately reach the Supreme Court, where the tax as applied to foreign parents will be held unconstitutional. Lawrence Salibra of Cleveland, senior counsel for Alcan, said the case is based on the notion that the unitary system unfairly tends to pull income earned outside the country into California's tax base. The US. Constitution says a state cannot undertake an activity torn between i career In law and one In the business end of i He decided to follow his father by getting a job with the SIN network in New York as director of program administration and ipe-clal projects.

He did that for a year, until he saw the post at KDTV as "the break I was waiting for." Nicolas took over 40 employees, three fewer than the current number, at a losing station that was splitting its audience with KEMOChan-nel 20. The competition disappeared in late 1960, and this contributed to KDTV's later success, but Nicolas gets most of the credit among some observers. "He's helped stimulate quite a bit of advertiser interest in Spanish-language TV," Kern says. "He's helped create demand among advertisers who normally would have only run English-speaking Owned by Bahia de San Francisco Television KDTV is one of a dozen Spanish-language stations that in June were ordered sold as a result of a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC found that the stations were illegally controlled by foreign interests and had threatened not to renew their licenses.

Nicolas says that the bidding process for KDTV's sale is close to completion and an announcement on the buyer is expected shortly. He says that the station will remain Spanish-speaking and retain its staff and that "it should be business as usual." Nicolas, who says his salary is close to $200,000, lives in Atherton with his wife and two boys, 6 and 3. Skiing and woodworking are pastimes, but he says he spends most of his free time feeding an addiction to news. As for KDTV, he says, its success lies in the respect the station holds for its audience. "We came up to their level," he says.

"We showed respect for this audience, and they appreciated that We didnt pretend to be anything but ourselves as part of the audience." monthly newspaper in the Million District -i Others say that Nicolas has done a lot more than previous general managers. "They cover the news much says Leandro Soto, head of Arriba Juntos, a community development agency. "We never got much coverage and under him we do. He's been the most active, civ ic-minded manager that Channel 14 has had." Soto says the improvement is crucial at a time when the government has relaxed regulations that require television stations tote responsive to the community they, serve. "Since deregulation, the electronic media have less participation in public service programming," he says.

"Most of us don't have funds to give us exposure. So we have to use the media to inform people about services available to them, to highlight some of the things we do Nicolas was born in San Antonio, Texas, and exposed to broadcasting at an early age. His father is the general manager of KWEX-Chan-nel 41, the SIN affiliate in San Antonio that opened in 1956 as the first Spanish-language station in the United States. Nicolas began working with him as a studio "prop boy" at age 12. He learned to operate cameras and videotape machines and worked at KWEX through high school and college.

On the side, he became a rock promoter for shows at schools and universities. He obtained a business administration degree from Trinity University in San Antonio and went to law school at the University of Texas at Austin. While working on his law degree, he joined the attorney general's office as an intern in the consumer protection and antitrust divisions. Nicolas says that after graduating from law school in 1978, he was been an emergency-room doctor, you dont know what to look for when they bring in a guy who's 'been In a motorcycle accident We can say, Take a look at the or 'Watch out for Internal We're short-circuiting the learning process" for management Hall soon will work on a special assignment for the City of San Francisco. Mayor Feinsteln last month named him to a special committee that will begin meeting this week to suggest ways to improve San Francisco's business climate.

His fellow committee members Include some of the area's most prominent business leaders: Transameri-ca Corp. Chairman James Harvey, Gap Inc. Chairman Donald Fisher and venture capitalist Arthur Rock. Roger Boas, San Francisco's chief administrative officer, who hired McKinsey's San Francisco office to prepare a study on the cost-effectiveness of expanding Mosco-ne Center, calls Hall "very facile, and absolutely honest" Says Boas, Ted doesnt kid himself or his listeners. If something doesnt work, he'll tell you.

For me, that's Just like oxygen." Hall grew up in LaPorte, the eldest child of a chemical engineer and a mother of five. At 14, be studied physics at the University of Virginia and later received a college fellowship to study in Holland. At Princeton, he took up engineering and economics, and in his first i flash of management skill ran the campus laundry service, Following a brief stint in the Marines, Hall went to the Stanford Graduate School of Business. On the side, he edited the school newspaper and played trombone in a 17-piece big band. While at Stanford, he suffered an athletic injury that left him temporarily paralyzed from the neck down, but be recovered fully.

Hall now works an average of 12 away from offices and atrpuum aboard his 35-foot, Santana-claai racing yacht, a $1104100 number that he sails up the Sacramento Delta for annual vacations with tk wife and two ions, 8 and Hall alio skippers a nine-man crew that won the local Yacht Racing Association championship this year. He plana a month off next Jury to compete the 225oiile Transpac yacht race from Southern California to Oanu on a 37-foot sloop that's being bulit for him. He is also passionate about wine-making. In his garage In San Francisco, Hall and a former Princeton classmate, Kim Wlnget a Marin investment adviser, have been crushing grapes since 1972. Their efforts have produced cabernets and zln-fandels bottled under the Nassau label, named after a Princeton meeting hall The wines, Hall says, have "placed high" in county fain in Napa and Sonoma.

Hall isn't lure what he'd like to do next but he mentions "public service" vaguely. When pressed, he rules out running for office but says an appointed federal post would "be meaningful" Noting that 50 percent of those who leave McKinsey become general managers including a fair- sized cadre who became top executives at major companies Hall says he is also "not opposed" to running a company someday. 1 "I probably have already accumulated several hundred years of experience as a general manager, not in terms of the day-Unlay operation of a company, but in dealing with major change at companies," he says. "I get a charge out of causing positive things to happen at a noeDEL From D-2 knack for hiring talented people who have contributed to his success, consultant Duffy says. Mindel, the father of five, was divorced during Spectrum's formative years and has since remarried.

He says the demands of the business were at times "horrendous." Until he established Spectrum offices in San Francisco in 1976, he commuted weekly to Los Angeles and returned to his Sausalito home on weekends. But he says he is still hooked on the business. "I do love good food," Mindel says. "And I love the people in the business." gjp WstelSo r7n mm mm UOmtfSp ell surfboard." he says. Moreover, Mindel says the few customers who came to the money-losing restaurant had difficulty finding it because of construction in the new office complex where it was located.

"They were still acid-washing the marble floors" in the center, Mindel says. "It was awful." At the same time, Mindel was "developing MacArthur Park in San Francisco. He designed large plexiglass tables with water flowing inside to simulate a fountain. But the water clogged and the tables exploded. MacArthur Park's menu, which included dishes such as quiche and lobster, was a flop.

Then, expenses began to run out of control. "I was personally on the hook for loans for several million dollars," Mindel says. "Everything I made in Caswell was in jeopardy." Mindel, tired and frustrated, tried to sell Spectrum, but could not find a buyer. To keep the business afloat, Mindel in 1973 hired a young accountant, Charles Frank. "I walked into a bit of a nightmare," says Frank, now Spectrum president.

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