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...already had exclusive rights to the series. Moreover, the amount referred to was in addition to the regular fee of $510,000 per show. When Martin inquired further, an unidentified official at Spelling-Goldberg, one of Hollywood's most profitable TV production companies, told her that the breakdown of payments was a ruse to diminish the Wagners' share of the profits. The official also explained to Martin that before the demise of another Spelling-Goldberg program, Starsky and Hutch, $30,000 per episode in Charlie's Angels fees was diverted to the account of the less successful...
...report draws most of its conclusions from an exhaustive 251-question survey on racial attitudes and experiences which about 22 per cent of undergraduates answered. The sample of 1300 students, which corresponds closely to a statistical breakdown of students by race, sex and class, "constitutes an accurate sample of the total undergraduate population," the report states. "Statistically, it is very sound," Epps said...
...Friedman and I are deeply disturbed by the breakdown of Chile's long tradition of democracy and freedom. We profoundly oppose authoritarian regimes, whether from the right or left. That is why we have consistently maintained a distance between ourselves and the government of Chile and have repeatedly condemned publicly and privately, its repressive measures...
...more convincing explanation of our foreign policy "failure" in Iran is that the breakdown occurred not at the level of data-gathering, but in the inhibition of the CIA's ability to execute that broader category of tasks referred to as "intelligence operations"--a euphemism for covert interference in and manipulation of political forces in a foreign country. This inhibition had much less to do with American congressional investigations into CIA abuses than it did with the Shah of Iran's insistence that the CIA not involve itself with opposition political groups, and that all "intelligence operations" be conducted through...
...neighbor in Dar es Salaam since he was ousted by Amin in a 1971 coup-was massing in the north. Thus Binaisa asked Kenya's President Daniel Arap Moi for troops to replace the departing Tanzanians. But Moi, whose country has been at odds with Tanzania since the breakdown of the East African Community in 1977, turned Binaisa down...