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...Israeli revelations were broadcast the day before Prime Minister Shimon Peres arrived in Washington for a three-day visit with President Reagan and other U.S. officials. Said a senior Israeli official with satisfaction: "This meeting could not have happened at a better time." The Israelis were hoping to drive home their contention that Arafat's P.L.O. was associated with the recent terrorist acts, and therefore should be dealt out of the Middle East peace process. Peres apparently found a sympathetic ear. Said a senior U.S. official: "This time Arafat has shot himself in the foot with both barrels...
...national radio and television broadcast last week, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra rolled out the heaviest artillery yet in his battle against political opponents of the revolutionary Sandinista government. He decreed the suspension of nearly all civil liberties in Nicaragua, including the right to strike and the rights of free expression, public assembly, freedom of movement, habeas corpus and protection from arbitrary arrest, search and seizure. His justification for that drastic crackdown: the threat of "political destabilization" posed by the "terrorist policies of the United States," as well as by the "internal pawns of imperialism." Said Ortega: "It is a fundamental...
...first it applied only to radio, then to television, both of which came under Government regulation on the grounds that channels were scarce and airwaves crowded. Stations were required to devote some broadcast time to public issues and to allow contrasting points of view a chance to be heard. It seems only--well, fair--doesn...
...Petticoat Junction soundtrack picks up steam, the lights go up on a barren set featuring a homey dinette and two good ole' boys dressed for an episode of Hee-Haw, getting ready to broadcast the morning news over Greater Tuna's airwaves. And among the items of interest, we are informed that beef is up, pork is down, and tropical rainstorm Luther is headed directly our way just in time for rehearsals of My Fair Lady set in Polynesia at Greater Tuna High...
Soviet television, remarkably, did not censor any of the prickly questions and answers from its domestic broadcast. That may have been a signal, however, that Gorbachev intends to be as tough as his predecessors on human rights issues. Despite its audience of 7 million, Gorbachev's interview ran second in the French ratings to a showing of The Burned Barns, a film starring Alain Delon and the late Simone Signoret (see MILESTONES...