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...fourth, after CBS-C. When launched in early 1982, it will charge for its programming (between $8 and $10 a month) and also carry discreet institutional advertising, a combination that some viewers may nonetheless find excessive. Forty percent of its selection will come from the BBC; the rest will consist largely of children's shows, foreign films and Broadway and off-Broadway plays. The Entertainment Channel will have enough middlebrow programs, claim its executives, to make it something broader than the other cultural cables. But those services will probably be its competitors nevertheless...
...tapes, recovered from Hinckley's Washington hotel room the day he shot the President, consist largely of requests that she permit more calls. Hinckley: "Can I call tomorrow night?" Foster: "That's fine." Hinckley: "Will you be in?" Foster: "Maybe." Hinckley: "Will you talk?" Foster: "Sure." Hinckley: "Well, you just changed your mind...
Most PBS courses consist of 30 half-hour segments aired during a 15-week semester. Modern satellite distribution lets stations schedule programs at times convenient to the students, usually during the lunch hour or late at night and on weekends. Since participating schools pay PBS a $300 licensing fee for each course they offer and a flat $10 to $15 for each student, the courses are economical both for the school and the student. Course requirements vary from campus to campus, but there is a basic procedure. The student pays tuition and enrolls in person, by phone or by mail...
...Poles, who must line up as long as 14 hours for basic foodstuffs. Moreover, between 30% and 50% of those standing in the queues go away empty-handed because of shortages of virtually everything. Even in the relatively well-supplied city of Cracow, window displays in grocery stores consist almost entirely of pyramids of packages...
...that the U.S. believes there could be such a thing as "victory" in a nuclear war and seeks the capacity to conduct the next war strictly in Europe. (An absurd mirror image of the absurd European hope that if there has to be an East-West war it will consist of salvos between the Soviet and American homelands...