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Since there is virtually no U.S. contact with Iran, the Syrian government remains the main U.S. channel for information from Tehran. Syria is Iran's main Arab ally...
...agreement to show the ceremonies in the event of rain, says Robert DesMaisons '67, director of Harvard Video Services (HVS). Spectators could watch the speeches and events either on large screens in the Science Center linked to the University cable system or on their own TV on Channel 44, he says...
...goal of sensible social policy should be to channel this natural human desire in safer directions, not to snuff it out, which is neither possible nor desirable. Thinking about the drug problem in this way focuses special attention on the role of marijuana. Current policy steers people like you and me, fellow bourgeois TIME readers, away from marijuana and toward alcohol. Is that a good idea? I'm not sure. Legalizing marijuana might steer the users of crack, heroin, PCP, etc., toward grass instead. Whether that's a good idea seems much clearer...
...network exemplifies this vision more than CNN, whose service is currently available in 58 countries. When President Reagan arrives in Moscow this week to meet with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, CNN will provide a special broadcast on a low-power UHF channel available to most Muscovites. The cable network will soon begin selling a Spanish-language news program to broadcasters in several countries in Latin America...
...fire is the industry's growing "vertical integration": cable systems that have a financial interest in program services. The largest owner of cable systems, Tele-Communications, Inc., for example, is a part owner of the Turner Broadcasting System, as well as an investor in Black Entertainment Television, the Discovery Channel and several other cable networks. Time Inc., the parent of the second largest cable operator, American Television & Communications Corp., also has a piece of Turner's company and owns two of the largest pay-cable networks, HBO and Cinemax. Critics charge that cable operators give preferential treatment to networks...