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...resumption of "low-yield" nuclear testing. After a three-year hiatus in U.S. testing, this measure disrupts the current pro-disarmament climate and comes as a major diplomatic eyesore in the context of the upcoming Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. As we well know, when France announced--and then stood by--its obtuse decision to conduct eight nuclear tests off Murora Atoll, it placed itself in the company of Iran (which has been pursuing what some have conjectured to be an aggressive nuclear development program with French assistance) and China (with continues to conduct tests despite outrage among its Asian neighbors...
...such acclaimed programs as The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact and Square One TV, is down to a single show in first-run production, namely Sesame Street. In February, abc canceled ctw's animated Saturday-morning science program CRO, and its pbs show Ghostwriter is on indefinite hiatus, having lost its funding. In the fiscal year that ended in June 1994, ctw lost $5.8 million, and two weeks ago it had to lay off 47 people -- 12% of its staff...
RETURNING. MONICA SELES, 21, ex-tennis star; from a two-year hiatus following a knifing by a crazed Steffi Graf fan. Seles' comeback will begin with an exhibition against Martina Navratilova next month in Paris...
...been at war, but starting in October 1991, they have engaged in off-and-on discussions of making peace. Last week, with the assistance of the U.S., the parties agreed to a common set of principles for the negotiations, which will resume in Washington in late June after a hiatus of six months. Time is running short for a deal since both Israel and the U.S. are heading into election periods, so the State Department intensified its efforts to find some common ground. Israeli sources present a more optimistic picture of the understanding than do other sources, but certain matters...
JOHN GRISHAM will redefine the term "celebrity lawyer" this fall, when he returns to the courtroom after a five-year hiatus for writing blockbusters like The Client and The Chamber. The author is taking on the Illinois Central Railroad on behalf of the estate of an employee who was killed while at work. He accepted the case in 1991, just after the publication of his first best seller, The Firm...