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Most of these shows do quite well in the ratings. But as the Married . . . With Children flap demonstrated, ratings are not everything, even along Madison Avenue. "What Married . . . With Children has done is make everybody take a sharper look at standards," says Betsy Frank, a senior vice president of Saatchi & Saatchi advertising. NBC, under attack for its low-road programming, is re-creating the position of vice president of program standards and policy, eliminated last year for budgetary reasons. The network is also setting up meetings with ad executives to explain its policy for screening out offensive material...
...Fang flap began innocently two weeks ago, when he received an elegantly engraved invitation from the U.S. embassy to attend Bush's brisket, beans and beer supper. Fang, an astrophysicist expelled from the Communist Party and fired from his job as a university vice president in 1987, was startled; by demanding democracy and calling socialism "the scourge of humanity in this century," the outspoken scientist has gone further than any other dissident in angering Chinese officials...
...Capitol controversies involving senatorial indiscretions. Since he last covered Congress, he has kept TIME's readers abreast of a number of national scandals, from Chappaquiddick to Watergate to Iran-contra. Although last week's vote against Tower ran strictly along party lines, Gorey hastens to point out that the flap is not as partisan as it may seem. "Senators are co-workers who see one another daily, travel together and become friends," Gorey explains. "Senators do not exult in the fall of a colleague." Nor, contrary to popular opinion, do journalists such as Gorey. "No one finds...
...drugs unless he breaks other promises to protect the defense budget and farm subsidies. Asked last week if his read-my-lips pledge would expire after one year, Bush replied meekly, "I'd like it to be a four-year pledge." But even he acknowledged that the kind of flap that followed the savings and loan mess may be repeated when he tells a joint session of Congress on Feb. 9 which promises he will keep and which ones he will abandon. "Look, I don't expect it's all going to be sweetness and harmony and light," the President...
...scandal looms as Bonn admits there is truth in U. S. charges. -- Should the U. S. pressure Israel to join Middle East peace talks? The leaders of Egypt and Jordan think so. -- Japan mourns the death of Emperor Hirohito. But a flap over who will attend his funeral suggests that some World War II wounds are not fully healed...