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Action for Children's Television (ACT), a Cambridge-based group that has promoted educational television for children for more than two decades, has announced that it will disband at the end of this year...
Last week Charren announced that ACT would disband at the end of the year. Her reason: the passage of the 1990 Children's Television Act, which sets advertising limits on children's programming and requires TV stations to air at least some fare that serves the educational needs of kids. "For more than 20 years, ACT has tried to get the public-interest laws that govern broadcasting to apply to children," said Charren. "With the passage of the 1990 Children's Television Act, this goal has been achieved. People who want better TV for kids now have Congress on their...
...flame. A nonperforming member of the band, Professor Griff, used a newspaper interview to vent some unsavory racial theories (among them: that Jews are responsible for "the majority of wickedness that goes on across the globe"), which caused enough criticism for Chuck D to fire Professor Griff and disband the group. The Professor, Chuck D remarked later, "almost burned down the house." When the group re-formed two months later, its leader was careful to say, "We are not anti-Jewish. We are not anti-anyone. We are pro-black, pro-black culture and pro-human race...
Precisely how the coup got rolling is still unclear, but the army left no doubt it had been unhappy with what it saw as Aristide's high-handedness. It ! had demanded that Cedras and other senior officers be confirmed by parliament and that Aristide disband a new 50-man presidential guard intended to serve under his direct command. The army also accused Aristide of arranging the execution last week of Roger Lafontant, a former leader of the hated Tontons Macoutes, who was jailed for a coup attempt last January...
...international projects office established by former President Derek C. Bok will disband at the end of December...