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...sheer enormity of the untruth, however, that is so stunning. Certainly there is nothing subtle about the Chinese leadership's tactics. Tell the lie again and again. Broadcast mug shots of wanted "hooligans." Lionize citizens who cooperate by ratting on alleged culprits. Parade arrested students before cameras, their heads shaved and bowed, their wrists cuffed, signs detailing their crimes strapped around their necks. Hour after hour, run their "confessions" of wrongdoing on national television. Construct a new reality, one that checks democratic aspirations by preying on fear and paranoia. The result? "A week ago we were free to say anything...
Twenty summers ago, millions of Americans heard the words "the Eagle has landed" as astronaut Neil Armstrong prepared to take man's first steps on the moon. During the next three weeks, 174 local TV stations in the U.S. will broadcast Man in Space, a one-hour video history of space exploration. Produced by TIME Magazine Television and California-based GGP, the program will feature footage from the archives of NASA, U.P.I. and other sources. The show will also include interviews with U.S. and Soviet space pioneers, who now dream of the next goal: manned exploration of Mars...
...become a horrible nightmare. Hospitals reported receiving scores of dead and hundreds or even thousands of wounded. One anguished doctor reported at least 500 dead. When the government radio announced that 1,000 had died, the station's personnel were quickly removed, and no further death toll was broadcast. Reports circulated that many bodies were being trucked away to be cremated, so the real count may never be known...
Movies and TV movies will also stoke awareness. The Keep, a TV movie about global warming set 50 to 75 years in the future, may air later this year; TNT will broadcast Incident at Dark River, about a father who learns that toxic dumping has killed his child. When writer-director David Zucker (Airplane!) % visited a solar-power plant in the Mojave Desert, he was inspired to drop a message into his script for The Naked Gun II. "A love affair is like the ozone layer," says Lieut. Frank Drebin. "You only miss it when it's gone...
Dave Berkoff, gold medal around his neck, smiling on a television broadcast from Seoul. Travis Metz wet and shivering on the banks of Lake Quinsigamond after an Eastern Sprints...