PORTFOLIO, September issue, there's a vivisection on Ted Turner. "Ted's Pledge Hedge" article says he prom ised $1 billion to the U.N. 10 years ago but is, give or take a few bucks, short "$345 million."

Sept. '97 he declared "almost the entire sum the U.S. owed the U.N. in unpaid dues" he'd hand over "in $100 million chunks." The piece says the first two years he gave $83 mil and, last year, a sort of shriveled paltry chump change - $49.8 mil. Per writer Sophia Banay: "Full payment of the pledge now isn't expected until 2015 - eight years past the original end date." At the magazine's press time, he'd only kicked in with a meager pitiful "$642 million."

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