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Aquino, the widow of assassinated Opposition Politician Benigno Aquino Jr., was rarely seen on television news and was blocked by a series of bureaucratic ruses whenever she tried to buy political advertising time. The challenger's lawyer finally filed a petition against the government-owned Channel 4 in Manila to force increased coverage of her campaign. In the three days after the lawyer's petition was filed, Aquino's name was mentioned on the government channel only four times, once in a false charge that she had agreed to cede the southern part of the nation to Muslim separatists...
Like most Americans, television news editors had begun to treat space shuttle flights as routine. Cable News Network, the Atlanta-based all-news channel, was the only network to carry live coverage of the shuttle launch. Correspondent Tom Mintier, narrating the spacecraft's ascent, retreated into shocked silence for several seconds following the blast. Then, after the explosion was confirmed by Mission Control, he announced "what appears to be a major catastrophe in America's space program...
...Franco-British cooperation more than a joint announcement by President Francois Mitterrand and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that their governments had approved the construction of a 31-mile-long rail tunnel linking the two countries. For nearly two centuries, rulers, entrepreneurs and engineers have dreamed of spanning the English Channel...
...forward by Channel Tunnel Group/France Manche, a British-French consortium, the rail-tunnel plan was one of four options submitted to the two governments last October by competing groups. The winning proposal envisages two tubes, each 24 ft. in diameter, through which trains will shuttle passengers and vehicles between Cheriton and Frethun. A third tunnel, 15 ft. wide, is to provide ventilation and access for service personnel. The 31-mile- long main tubes (underwater length will be 23 miles) are to be dug through the chalk deposits 131 ft. below the Channel floor...
...vehicle and driver) and single- deckers for trucks. France Manche officials claim that an entire train could be loaded in only ten minutes. The crossing will take 30 minutes, vs. 75 minutes for ferries and 35 minutes for Hovercraft now plying the shortest (21- mile) cross-Channel route, from Dover to Calais. If France's high-speed TGV (Train a Grande Vitesse) network is extended to the Channel coast, the Paris-London train journey will take 3 3/4 hours, half the average time of the current trip by rail and boat...