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...millions of Americans, Brokaw is the beloved anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News," one of the nation's top-rated broadcast news shows...
...present dispute centers on whether the government properly tested the belts. According to NHTSA documents, when Chrysler duplicated the federal tests, the belts still failed. Chrysler contends the anchor system works properly when the testing equipment is placed closer to the seat. The automaker says the government standard does not specify how close to the seat the equipment should be placed. The two sides will conduct further tests to use in the court case. Szczesny reports that the government will also try to subpoena internal Chrysler documents to see what the company's engineers found as they prepared the cars...
...arrived in Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter and the anchor of the Arab world--although the Saudis themselves will not say it. Since 1982 the country has been ruled by the formidable King Fahd, 75, a reliable friend to the U.S. who could be counted on to maintain stability in his kingdom. But Fahd's health has deteriorated ever since he suffered an embolic stroke last November, and a tug-of-war is already ongoing at the highest levels of the government. Although the King has tried to cling to his throne, senior diplomats in Riyadh expect...
Another factor that may have contributed to Admiral Boorda's sacrifice was his misguided sense of obligation to atone with his life for the embarrassment he believed he had brought on the Navy, his institution, his anchor, his family. Mike Boorda, like most of the senior officers I have known in our military services, would have felt himself the steward of his service's honor and concluded that his sacrifice would uphold it. For a man to have placed a higher importance on upholding an unreachable standard of accountability than on his own survival expresses an ethic that, however misguided...
...make no bones about what we're doing," says Nikolai Svanidze, a popular news anchor. "Zyuganov says the press must be in line with the society, which means government control if he gets in. We have no right to be objective now." As a tactical matter, Svanidze says, "frontally saying Zyuganov is bad would be counterproductive. So we coordinate with Yeltsin's staff and make sure to use good camera angles when showing the President. I'd like to show him drunk, but not now. Honesty will have to wait till later...