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French police have banned the sale of a hit record called Go for It Saddam, a paean to the Iraqi dictator. Recorded in Arabic by Algerian singer Mohamed Mazouni, the song is popular with France's North African youth. The single, which was available in both audio- and videocassette versions, attacks the West for the war and ends on an apocalyptic note: "Where are you, Muslims?/ You permitted Bush/ to tread in the Holy Shrines . . . other Arabs are hypnotized by the dollar . . . /Oil prices rise, the atomic bomb/ is being made to terrorize Israel...
...visual and audio recordings of personnel in agony or severe shock are not authorized...
...crucial features of the home deck available on the DATman is the ability to find any track with pinpoint accuracy within seconds. At $849.95, this will be Sony's priciest Walkman ever. "Like all new consumer products, the initial price is high," admits Michael Vitelli, president of Sony Personal Audio Products, who expects that the first purchasers of the DAT Walkman will be the "high-end audiophile market and music enthusiasts." But, he adds, "the prices tend to come down when the demand is great enough, and the portable capabilities of the DAT Walkman will help popularize the entire...
...Walkman isn't susceptible to skipping when the going gets rough. (Sony has also introduced a DAT deck for cars.) The catalog of prerecorded DAT tapes (typical price: $20) is just beginning to build up, with only about 175 titles available. But as Hirayama Toshikatsu of Panasonic's audio division points out, "The majority of users want to create their own tapes with their own selection of music." Sony spokesman Tsutomu Imai agrees. "Software was important because the CD player was a playback- only machine," he says. "It had to have prerecorded music to succeed. But since...
...cassette (DCC) format. Philips says the system will be available in early 1992 and promises it will deliver DAT-quality sound. Experts, however, are dubious. "I think Philips, as the inventor and promoter of the analog cassette, is interested in prolonging its life," says Len Feldman, senior editor of Audio magazine. That's understandable. One quick turn with the DAT Walkman demonstrates that the audio future is here, and well in hand...