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...deal likely to create a giant broadcast marketplace, QVC Network, headed by former film mogul Barry Diller, offered to take control of its only serious competitor, the Home Shopping Network, for an estimated $1.2 billion in stock...
...local activism, even solo advocacy, has paid off in the face of adversity. Three years ago, John Broussard, a former Air Force medic, stunned the tiny Louisiana farming town of Welsh when he announced on local TV that he was gay and had AIDS. After the broadcast, his home was pelted with rocks. Local doctors refused to treat him. Baptist neighbors crowed that he was going to hell, and his parents, he says, "went through more rejection by friends in one year than they ever had in their entire lives...
...along the coast before finally landing a berth on the Dieu Veut. According to his brother Miguel, Ossou was pulled from the line of refugees as he disembarked in Port-au-Prince. He has not been heard from since. For the past year, Miguel has paid radio stations to broadcast appeals for anyone who might know what happened to his brother. "I believe he is dead," he confesses. Local villagers are more certain of Ossou's fate. "He was beaten to death by police," they whisper...
...resumed limited food distribution in southern Mogadishu after two weeks of fighting between its forces and those of Somali General Mohammed Farrah Aidid. It also issued wanted posters for the fugitive warlord, and put up a reward for his capture. Aidid, meanwhile, taunted his pursuers in a broadcast carried by NBC and the Voice of America. "You know," he said, "I am here in the city of Mogadishu and I am protected by God and my people...
...card used by David Letterman on his last Late Night broadcast, Friday, June...