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...occasion had an artificially mysterious air about it. Two weeks ago, telephone calls were placed to journalists from New York City to Caracas urging them to dial a Miami number for information about an upcoming meeting on U.S. soil of the Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense (F.D.N.), a coalition of Nicaraguan exile groups that are opposed to the leftist Sandinista regime in Managua. When leaders of the F.D.N. showed up at a Fort Lauderdale resort hotel last week, the conclave turned out to be about as clandestine as a charity clambake. The real purpose of the get-together...
With these commands, Rob can search through the necklace of satellites that rings the earth and pick up any one of 150 TV channels. He can also dial the telephone, adjust the angle of his bed, dim the lights, dictate letters, play video games and write computer programs on the Carnegie-Mellon University computer network in nearby Pittsburgh. Next January he will start taking college-level courses by satellite...
...ownership of the phones in customers' homes will revert to AT&T, and the local companies will be unable either to rent or sell them to customers. Thus the local companies are now under pressure to sell, so customers are being offered some attractive deals. That standard rotary-dial phone that New York Telephone now rents for $36.36 per year can be bought...
...example, customers of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, the largest subsidiary in the system, currently pay $1.08 per month, or a total of $12.96 per year, to rent a standard rotary-dial phone. Under one of Pacific Tel's deals, subscribers can choose to pay an additional 660 a month for twelve months as a supplement to their rental fee, which works out to $20.88 for the year, after which they will own their phone sets outright and have to pay no further rental charges...
...harmonious balancing of a menu is perhaps more important to Italian cuisine than to any other this side of China. This can be a twice-a-day exercise, since most Italians still favor the three-course midday repast. Italian Cooking in the Grand Tradition (Dial; $24.95), by Jo Bettoja and Anna Maria Cornetto, addresses itself primarily to seasonal family meals and honors the year's special occasions. The two fare ladies, Bettoja from Millen, Ga., and Cornetto from Rome, are former models who run a celebrated Roman cooking school called Lo Scaldavivande (the covered dish). Jo married into...