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...when Tu o Nadie (Nobody but You), the Mexican novela that spun this improbable yarn, was telecast on Los Angeles' KMEX last spring, it drew more viewers for its time slot than any other independent station in the area. Nor was that an anomaly for Los Angeles' thriving Channel 34. An affiliate of SIN (the Spanish International Network), KMEX tops two of the city's three major network affiliates in reaching young adults during certain important time periods. "When I came to this station in 1963, I was told it was a dead-end business because Hispanics would assimilate," says...
...melting pot. KSCI-TV in Los Angeles begins its day at 4 a.m. with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, followed by half an hour of Korean news, an Islamic educational program, a Farsi version of the Today show and, around lunchtime, a costume drama called Chinese World. WCIU-TV, Channel 26 in Chicago, carries some 60 hours a week of foreign-language programming, ranging from Club del Nino, a Hispanic children's series, to the Indian variety show Chitrahar...
Local cable channels, with their narrower geographic reach, can often target their ethnic audiences more precisely. The Jade Channel, a pay-TV service from Hong Kong, was launched last December by a cable system in a heavily Chinese section of the Los Angeles area. For $17.95, viewers get a schedule of Chinese-language shows, including a Sesame Street-style children's series, a comedy-variety program called Enjoy Yourself Tonight and a Chinese version of The Odd Couple...
...newly opened Man Ray (21A Brookline St.). It's connected to a gay night club next door so you'll find a mixture of men dancing with men, women with women, and men with women. If you want more emphasis on the band than the dancing, check out The Channel. Planes departing Logan Airport frequently roar overhead and you'll have to trek over a bridge from South Station to see some good rock and post-punk bands here. Those 18 and over can get into New Musik nights on Tuesday, but on other nights it's open to only...
...hands, his capacity for troublemaking would increase intolerably. In 1981 Gaddafi told TIME that the atom bomb was "a means of terrorizing humanity, and we are against the manufacture and acquisition of nuclear weapons." A few days later he reportedly told his top advisers that he planned to channel a substantial amount of Libya's financial resources into obtaining a nuclear weapon...