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Despite Weinberger's hard-line opposition, Shultz has been more successful in encouraging Reagan to resume negotiations with the Soviet Union on a variety of issues, most notably arms control. It is this very success, however, that has subjected Shultz to attack from those on the far right. They accuse...
As U.S. farmers struggled through their worst times since the Depression and Washington spent record sums on agricultural subsidies, Congress wrestled with two measures aimed at a major reordering of federal farm policy. Last week, after eleven months of often acrimonious debate on a farm-assistance bill and a brief...
The long-running battle for control of the network has featured all the drama and suspense of a potboiler mini-series. It began in January, when Helms' Fairness- in-Media group launched a proxy fight to be "Dan Rather's boss." Then Turner, the cable-TV king, stunned CBS in...
While plotting the network's defense, CBS Chairman Thomas Wyman began looking for help and turned to Tisch, a shrewd investor with close ties to executives at both CBS and ABC. Recalls Tisch, whose Fifth Avenue office is around the corner from Black Rock, as CBS's Manhattan headquarters is...
By August, Helms had dropped his campaign against CBS, and the network had blunted Turner's bid by offering to buy 21% of its own stock for nearly $1 billion. Even so, Wall Street remained convinced that CBS was a takeover candidate. Still concerned, Wyman interrupted a vacation to call...