Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will address the broader questions of apartheid and U.S. South Africa policy, the demonstration will undoubtedly take on the question of Harvard's South Africa-linked investments. The event, moreover, is certain to win extensive local and national coverage. That attention could potentially galvanize born students and alumni to direct new pressure toward Bok and the Corporation for divestiture...
...everything was going so well economically for ABC, why was it vulnerable to takeover? Answer: the buy-out climaxes years of erosion of the networks' influence in U.S. commercial television. During that time, they have lost viewers to suppliers of cable programs and direct satellite broadcasts and even to producers of videocassettes for home TV tape players. From 1979 to 1984, the networks' audience share dropped from...
Koppel, on ABC's Nightline, is a cool, well-briefed and forceful interviewer. To induce his guest to open up, he neutrally plays devil's advocate for the other side. English-born, he questions in the aggressive, direct English style ("May I put it to you, sir, that . . .") and less in the anonymous accusations so dear to many interviewers ("How do you respond when people accuse...
...Reagan Administration has been standoffish, giving the Arab overtures wary encouragement while avoiding, at least for the time being, any direct involvement. In his press conference last week, the President said that the U.S. "did not want to participate in the negotiations--it wouldn't be any of our business to do so." He added, however, that he had "complimented" Mubarak for his work and that the U.S. would "do whatever we could to help bring the warring parties together...
...number of critical issues. The Hussein-Arafat agreement suggested that a Jordanian-Palestinian team, selected by the two leaders, be empowered to negotiate with Israel and the U.S. in a U.N. conference. Reagan indicated last week that the U.S. might meet with such a delegation if that would further direct negotiations with Israel. But no meeting could include members of the P.L.O., with which the U.S. and Israel refuse to bargain. Hussein and Arafat also endorsed a confederation of Jordan and a Palestinian state on the West Bank, but they gave little indication of how this new entity would...