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...been available on the electronic newsstand of America Online, the fastest-growing of the commercial computer services. Since going online, our editors, writers and correspondents have been familiarizing themselves with yet another new journalistic venue: the ongoing exchange of real-time computer messages with our readers -- friend and foe alike...
...country's oldest banks, which is now in government hands. -Gustavo Gomez Lopez, Tinoco's successor as president of Banco Latino. He insists he is innocent and claims he is being targeted by Caldera, who, he says, is determined to punish the friends of his old foe Perez. Gomez Lopez says most of Banco Latino's losses can be attributed to the deteriorating economy, mismanagement and bad loans, not to theft and fraud. He was charged last week with embezzling public funds...
Daunted, perhaps, by critics brandishing the words witch-hunt and McCarthyism, Senate Commerce Committee chairman Larry Pressler withdrew portions of a questionnaire he had sent to National Public Radio asking, among other things, about the ethnicity and possible political leanings of employees. Pressler, a foe of federal financing of public broadcasting, said he had merely wanted to get a fuller picture of the organization...
Senator Larry Pressler, the South Dakota Republican who is a leading congressional foe of CPB funding, contends that public TV could survive just fine if it were off the government dole. For one thing, Pressler suggests, PBS could make up the money by negotiating for a piece of the revenue from the merchandising of Big Bird, Barney and other popular PBS children's characters. (The producers of Barney have done just that...
Utterly loyal and discreet, Dziwisz (pronounced Gee-vish) served as Wojtyla's secretary and chaplain when the future Pope was still Archbishop and Cardinal of Cracow. Today he is the gatekeeper: no one -- neither papal friend nor foe -- comes to the Holy Father save through the humble monsignor. Says a close papal aide: "Whoever the Pope is, he's going to be someone who feels very much alone. You need someone by your side, a kind of soul mate, and that's what Don Stanislaw...