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...industry has been through a heady few years. The 1984 Cable Communications Policy Act, passed in the palmy deregulatory spirit of the Reagan Administration, freed most cable systems from local control over their rates and service. Not surprisingly, the cost of basic cable has gone up since then (by 26% between December 1986 and October 1988, according to a General Accounting Office survey). So has the industry's financial health and its spending on new channels and programming...
Inouye, who also received an honorary degree, accused the United States of "using" the plight of Soviet Jews when it was "handy politically" but then closing its doors when thousands were freed from the Soviet Union and needed sanctuary...
...release of Polhill and Reed must show they can get something in return. Bush has spawned what is now called the "no-deal deal." This includes his vague thanks, subtle pressure on Israel to release Shi'ite prisoners, hints that $1 billion of frozen Iranian assets will be freed faster. The U.S. will increase its efforts to learn the fate of four Iranians who disappeared in Lebanon in 1982. There is more imagery and body language in all of that than there is substance...
...working with South Africa's whites while other black leaders went to prison or into exile, he never committed the bigger sin that the A.N.C. long feared: cutting a separate deal with whites in exchange for becoming the country's first black President. Buthelezi always insisted that Mandela be freed as a precondition to his joining in negotiations on South Africa's future...
...true that limitation might create an even less desirable group of unresponsive incumbents -- the 31,000 congressional staffers whose power is already outsized. But freed from the never-ending necessity for political fund raising, legislators might actually find the time to lead rather than follow their staffs...