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...most widely reported incident last spring, a non-student disk jockey was banned from the student-run radio station after he played "Run, Nigger, Run" during a series on old Bluegrass and Country & Western songs, Charney said...
Charney, who was not involved with the station at the time, said she viewed the incident as careless rather than racist. She said the disk jockey should have told listeners that no insult was intended by the song. She added that "the song does have its artistic merit...
...still-video cameras operate on the same basic principle. Light passes through a lens and strikes a flat electronic wafer called a charge-coupled device, which converts the image into electronic signals that are stored on a floppy disk in the same manner that a camcorder records the individual frames of a video movie. Once an image has been captured, it can be displayed on a TV, printed on paper or transmitted over telephone lines anywhere in the world. But whoever receives the images must have one of the cameras or other special equipment to view the pictures...
...Disk jockeys across the country broadcast Wright's telephone number, provoking a barrage of angry calls from outraged citizens. Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire juxtaposed a bandit's mask with a portrait of Wright, solemnly intoning that "a pay raise without a vote is stealing." Later Humphrey came as close to blows as Senators ever do with fellow Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska, who favors the pay hike, during a heated exchange at a committee hearing on the subject. Some of Wright's House colleagues, the vast majority of whom want the raise, have started comparing him, unfavorably...
...that long were the turf of U.S. firms. Last week the American Electronics Association reported that from 1984 through 1987 electronics production rose 75% in Japan, vs. a paltry 8% in the U.S. Most ominously for the U.S., Japan made its gains in increasingly sophisticated components, such as the disk drives and optical-storage devices used for today's higher-powered computers. Says L. William Krause, chairman of AEA: "The Japanese are eating their way up the electronics food chain...