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...pervasive American presence is producing a spate of protectionist measures around the world, despite vigorous protests by American trade negotiators. The 12 members of the European Community recently adopted regulations requiring that a majority of all television programs broadcast in Europe be made there "whenever practicable...
...radio and listened to the BBC every hour, also Voice of America, which broadcast messages from home. I heard a dozen messages from my own family. News of the military buildup lifted us too. We thought Bush was really going to invade. We even sealed off a safe room with tape in case of poison gas. All of us wanted Bush to hit the Iraqis. When nothing happened, we began to feel Saddam Hussein would outlast...
Chicago, City of the Big Shoulders, has always had to shoulder a big share of the network news load. A few years ago, each of the three broadcast networks had thriving bureaus there -- nearly a dozen reporters among them, all scrambling to cover most of mid-America between the Alleghenies and the Rockies...
...analysis and background. The most radical move in this direction is coming from NBC Nightly News, which has instituted a round robin of daily features with catchy umbrella titles ("What Works," "Vital Signs") and on some nights has scrapped the news-of-the-day approach entirely and devoted the broadcast to one topic, such as the Persian Gulf crisis...
...food assistance is being directed by the government and private organizations. Last week more than 100,000 food parcels -- each containing enough coffee, sugar, rice, powdered milk, cheese and canned meat to feed one person for two weeks -- were shipped to the Soviet Union. During a one-hour television broadcast called Helft Russland (Help Russia), which aired last week throughout Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl appealed for donations. Kohl reminded his countrymen that Gorbachev "helped us Germans on the way to unity in the last decisive months...