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...Cinq. In West Germany, the government is spending an estimated $10 billion to wire the nation for cable (which is already widespread in countries like Belgium and Holland). German cable viewers can choose from such new channels as the Luxembourg-based RTL-Plus and SAT 1, run by a consortium of German publishers. Meanwhile, the skies over Europe are becoming crowded with new satellite services, among them Rupert Murdoch's Sky Channel, which reaches an estimated 5.5 million homes with reruns of The Lucy Show and The Untouchables as well as entertainment shows produced in Britain and on the Continent...
...schools invited are all part of the Apple University Consortium, a 24-university organization which includes the Ivy League and state institutions such as the University of Michigan and the University of Texas. Those schools, which have been able tosell Macintoshes to their students at reducedprices, can also offer MacPluses at discountedrates...
...affair has revolved around two rival rescue bids for Westland, an ailing firm that is Britain's only helicopter maker. One came from a West European consortium of defense contractors, including British Aerospace; the other was made by Sikorsky, a division of the U.S. conglomerate United Technologies. Defense Minister Heseltine supported the European bid, arguing that it alone would keep helicopter technology in Britain. Thatcher maintained that she was neutral on the competing rescue plans, but Heseltine accused her of favoring the U.S. offer and resigned after an icy confrontation...
...sent by Sir Patrick Mayhew, Britain's Solicitor-General, to Heseltine. In it, Mayhew urged Heseltine to correct "material inaccuracies" in his version of the ongoing battle. These had been contained in an earlier letter from the then Defense Minister to a representative of the European consortium...
...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...