OTHER NEWS - Aug. 12, 1993

Haft Family Legal Brawl Escalates Again: Robert Haft sued three companies controlled by his father, Herbert, seeking to recover millions of dollars in stock and long-term compensation he lost when the elder Haft fired him in June. Robert’s breach-of-contract lawsuit, filed in a Delaware federal District Court, had none of the sensational charges of physical and financial abuse that were contained in the separation suit filed by his mother, Gloria, Tuesday in Washington. But it offered Robert’s first on-the-record account of the father-son feud that has ruptured one of the area’s richest and most tightly knit business clans. The lawsuit says the partnership began to collapse this spring when Herbert Haft “reneged on the succession plan and decided to retain his posts.”