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FORM 4 -------------------------------
U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION | OMB Number: 3235-0287 |
[ ] Check this box if no longer WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 | Expires: December 31, 2001 |
subject to Section 16. Form 4 | Estimated average burden |
or Form 5 obligations may STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP | hours per response..... 0.5 |
continue. See Instruction 1(b). -------------------------------
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility
Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
(Print or Type Responses)
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1.Name and Address of Reporting Person*| 2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol |6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s)
Hollinger Inc. (See Schedule I for | | to Issuer (Check all applicable)
additional reporting persons) | Hollinger International Inc. (HLR) | Director X 10% Owner
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(Last) (First) (Middle) | 3. IRS or Social | 4. Statement for | Officer (give title below)
| Security Number | Month/Year | -----
| of Reporting | | Other (specify below)
Hollinger International Inc. | Person (Voluntary) | November 1999 | -----
401 North Wabash Avenue, Suite 740 | | December 1999 |
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(Street) | | 5. If Amendment, |7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing
| | Date of Original | (Check Applicable Line)
| | (Month/Year) | Form filed by One Reporting Person
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| | | Form filed by More than One
| | | X Reporting Person
Chicago Illinois 60611 | | | --
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(City) (State) (Zip) | TABLE I - NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
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1. Title of Security | 2. Transaction| 3. Transaction| 4. Securities Acquired(A)| 5. Amount of|6. Owner-|7. Nature
(Instr. 3) | Date | Code | or Disposed of (D) | Securities | ship | of
| | (Instr. 8) | (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) | Beneficially| Form: | Indirect
| | | | Owned at End| Direct | Bene-
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| | | | | (A) | | (Instr. 3 | Indirect| Owner-
| (Month/Day/ | | | | or | | and 4) | (I) | ship
| Year) | Code | V | Amount | (D) | Price | |(Instr.4)|(Instr.4)
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Class A Common Stock | (2) | X | | 57,500 | D | (3) | (4) | (5) | (5)
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Class A Common Stock | (2) | X | | 90,274 | D | (3) | (4) | (5) | (5)
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.
*If the from is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 4(b)(v).
POTENTIAL PERSONS WHO ARE TO RESPOND TO THE COLLECTION OF INFORMATION CONTAINED
IN THIS FORM ARE NOT REQUIRED TO RESPOND UNLESS THE FORM DISPLAYS A CURRENTLY
VALID OMB CONTROL NUMBER.
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FORM 4 (CONTINUED) TABLE II -- DERIVATIVE SECURITIES ACQUIRED, DISPOSED OF, OR BENEFICIALLY OWNED
(e.g., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES)
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1. Title of Derivative | 2. Conver- |3. Trans- |4. Trans- |5. Number of |6. Date Exer- |7. Title and Amount |8. Price
Security | sion or | action | action | Derivative | cisable and | of Underlying | of
(Instr. 3) | Exercise | Date | Code | Securities Ac- | Expiration | Securities | Deriv-
| Price of | | (Instr. 8)| quired (A) or | Date | (Instr. 3 and 4) | ative
| Deriv- | (Month/| | Disposed of (D)| (Month/Day/ | | Secur-
| ative | Day/ | | (Instr. 3, 4, | Year) | | ity
| Security | Year) | | and 5) | | | (Instr. 5)
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| | | | |Date |Expira- | | Amount or |
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| | | Code | V | (A) |(D) |cisable|Date | | Shares |
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HI Series II | (3) | (2) | X | | | 321,248 | (6) | | (7) | (8) | (9)
Call Options | | | | | | | | | | |
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9. Number of | 10. Ownership | 11. Nature of
Derivative | Form of | Indirect
Securities | Derivative | Beneficial
Beneficially | Security: | Ownership
Owned at End | Direct (D) | (Instr. 4)
of Month | or Indirect (I) |
(Instr. 4) | (Instr. 4) |
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(10) | (10) | (10)
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Explanation of Responses:
See Schedule I attached hereto.
**Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute HOLLINGER INC. January 7, 2000
Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). By: /s/ Charles G. Cowan ---------------
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**Signature of Reporting Person
Charles G. Cowan
Vice-President and Secretary
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FORM 4 (CONTINUED)
**Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute THE RAVELSTON CORPORATION January 7, 2000
Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). LIMITED ---------------
By: /s/ Charles G. Cowan Date
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**Signature of Reporting Person
Charles G. Cowan
Vice-President and Secretary
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FORM 4 (CONTINUED)
**Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute /s/ Conrad M. Black January 7, 2000
Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). ------------------------------- ---------------
**Signature of Reporting Person Date
The Hon. Conrad M. Black,
P.C., O.C.
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FORM 4 (CONTINUED)
**Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute /s/ Barbara Amiel Black January 7, 2000
Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). ------------------------------- ---------------
**Signature of Reporting Person Date
Barbara Amiel Black
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SCHEDULE I
Explanatory Notes to Form 4
Name and Address of Reporting Person:
Hollinger Inc. ("HI")
c/o Hollinger International Inc.
401 North Wabash Avenue, Suite 740
Chicago, Illinois 60611
Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol:
Hollinger International Inc./HLR
Statement for Month/Year
November 1999
December 1999
Additional Reporting Persons:
The Ravelston Corporation Limited ("Ravelston")
c/o Hollinger International Inc.
401 North Wabash Avenue, Suite 740
Chicago, Illinois 60611
Relationship to Issuer: 10% Owner
Conrad M. Black ("CMB")
c/o Hollinger International Inc.
401 North Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611
Relationship to Issuer: Director, Officer and 10% Owner
Barbara Amiel Black ("Amiel")
c/o Hollinger International Inc.
401 North Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611
Relationship to Issuer: Director, Officer and 10% Owner
via spouse CMB
Explanations:
(1) (i) For HI: 10% Owner
(ii) For Ravelston: 10% Owner
(iii) For CMB: Director, Officer (Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer) and 10% Owner
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(iv) For Amiel: Director and Officer (Vice President) and
10% owner via spouse CMB.
(2) The disposition of shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock ("Class A
Common Shares") occurred on various dates throughout the months of
November (with respect to and aggregate of 57,500 Class A Common Shares
during such period) and December(with respect to and aggregate of 90,274
Class A Common Shares during such period) in connection with the
retraction of Series II Preference Shares ("Series II Shares") issued by
HI, the Issuer's parent corporation.
(3) The consideration given for the exchange of each Series II Share was
0.46 of a Class A Common Share.
(4) (i) For HI: 25,281,043 Class A Common Shares held
directly by HI, and indirectly via its wholly
owned subsidiary 504468 N.B. Inc.
(ii) For Ravelston: 25,281,043 Class A Common Shares indirectly
via its control over HI
(iii) For CMB: 25,281,043 Class A Common Shares via his
control over Ravelston, which controls HI,
600 Class A Common Shares directly, 9,600
Class A Common Shares indirectly via Conrad
Black Capital Corporation, 50 Class A Common
Shares indirectly via son, and 500 Class A
Common Shares indirectly via spouse. CMB
disclaims beneficial ownership of his son's
and spouse's securities and this report shall
not be deemed an admission that he is a
beneficial owner of such securities for
purposes of Section 16 or for any other
purpose.
(iv) For Amiel. 25,281,043 Class A Common Shares via spouse's
control over Ravelston, 500 Class A Common
Shares directly, 9,600 Class A Common Shares
indirectly via spouse's control over Conrad
Black capital corporation, 50 Class A Common
Shares indirectly via spouse's son, and 600
Class A Common Shares indirectly via spouse.
Amiel disclaims beneficial ownership of her
spouse's and her spouse's son's securities
and this report shall not be deemed an
admission that he is a beneficial owner of
such securities for purposes of Section 16 or
for any other purpose.
(5) (i) For HI: Directly.
(ii) For Ravelston: Indirectly, via its control of HI.
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(iii) For CMB: Directly and indirectly, via his control of
Ravelston, which controls HI.
(iv) For Amiel: Directly and indirectly via her spouse, CMB,
and his control of Ravelston, which controls
HI.
(6) Immediately.
(7) Class A Common Stock of the Issuer.
(8) 147,774
(9) The Series II Shares were originally issued in 1997 and 1998 in exchange
for Equity Units of Hollinger Inc. and for Series I Non-Voting
Preference Shares of Hollinger Inc., respectively, at a stated value
of [Cdn.] $10.00 per share.
(10) (i) For HI: 15,030,734 Series II Shares remain
outstanding, resulting in a put equivalent
position with respect to 6,914,138 Class A
Common Shares.
(ii) For Ravelston: 66,693 Series II Shares directly, resulting
in a call equivalent position with respect to
30,803 Class A Common Shares. Via its control
of HI, Ravelston indirectly beneficially owns
HI's position in the Series II Shares.
(iii) For CMB: 1,611,039 Series II Shares directly,
resulting in a call equivalent position with
respect to 741,077 Class A Common Shares. Via
his control of Ravelston (and its control of
HI), CMB indirectly beneficially owns
Ravelston's and HI's positions in the Series
II Shares.
(iv) For Amiel: Amiel disclaims beneficial ownership of CMB's
securities and this report shall not be
deemed an admission that she is a beneficial
owner of such securities for purposes of
Section 16 or for any other purpose.
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