Word: bbc
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...that name would command! MARGARET THATCHER certainly thinks so. The former British Prime Minister wants to team up with the other two ex-leaders in a "supertroika" to dole out advice on global affairs. "We managed to do a lot for world peace and democracy," she explained to the BBC. A senior British Cabinet Minister who views her plan as a slap at the successors to the three leaders calls Thatcher's idea "barmy." In any case, the troika has only one member so far: Gorbachev and Reagan are maintaining a polite silence...
Egotistical producers, pampered actors, ill-used writers, oily agents: the familiar cast was on hand as the BBC poked its nose into the film capital. But producer Nicolas Kent enlivened the old story with an outsider's perspective and a filmmaker's brashness...
Egotistical producers, pampered actors, ill-used writers, oily agents: the familiar cast was on hand as the BBC poked its nose into the film capital. But producer Nicolas Kent enlivened the old story with an outsider's perspective and a filmmaker's brashness...
...Anita Hill hearings but presented only half-hour daily summations of the Smith rape trial. Many overseas viewers, though glued to CNN during major events, find its day-to-day programming parochial and its international coverage thin. Viewers in some parts of Asia have been turning instead to the BBC's new 24-hour news channel...
...cold day in hell when Terry Anderson won his freedom at last. The snow fell hard in Mount Lebanon as he spent the last 24 hours pacing in his cell, playing solitaire by candlelight and listening to the BBC broadcast stories of his progress on the road to Damascus. Those last hours passed with infernal slowness; his captors continued to argue over whether to let him go at all. But when at last the path to freedom cleared, he appeared to a world captured in a camera lens, and all was finally well...