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...American homes by wire, cable-TV operators and phone companies have rarely competed head to head. But with deregulation and new technology blurring the lines between them, the two businesses are set to collide. The showdown drew closer last week, when the Federal Communications Commission proposed rules that would hasten the phone industry's entry into the TV business...
...question of what degree of hostility is best designed to hasten the collapse of a communist regime, it is at least worth pondering the example of Castro's Cuba. That is the communist country to which American opposition has been most consistently implacable. For four decades, no trade, no detente, no summits, no nothing. It is the last totally unreformed communist country left, though probably not for long. Is that just a coincidence...
...pullout may hasten a trend in which dozens of insurers have left New Jersey, Massachusetts, California and other states in disputes over rates. Most notably, Allstate's move could set the stage for a major showdown in California, where regulators plan to implement Proposition 103. That measure, which mandates a 20% rollback of auto and other insurance premiums, has been bottled up by legal challenges since voters approved...
With Cuba an increasingly lonely holdout against the stampede away from communism, what better time for the anti-Castro RADIO MARTI to turn up the volume and hasten Fidel's political demise? Instead, a recent U.S. Information Agency study shows a shrinking audience. Radio Marti employees blame their director, Rolando Bonachea, for the defections. Bonachea has tried to "professionalize" the station's programming by increasing its anticommunist rhetoric. Castro's stations, by contrast, have won listeners back by giving them what they want: rock 'n' roll...
More POISONING OF AMERICA ads followed, and when Nabisco failed to budge, Sokolof singled it out, concluding, "The American public deserves better from its largest food processor." The following day a Nabisco executive called Sokolof to assure him that the giant company would hasten the reformulation of its products...