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Oprah and Geraldo should brace themselves. The Rev. Jesse Jackson is starting his own TV talk show. The two-time Democratic presidential candidate announced last week that he has signed on with a subsidiary of Warner Communications to produce Voices of America with Jesse Jackson, a weekly one-hour program that will debut in the fall of next year, if stations decide to buy it. The surprisingly early announcement may have been meant to kill rumors that Jackson may try to become mayor of Washington in the November 1990 elections. If so, it failed. While declaring once again that...
...documentation were diverted through the Middle East and elsewhere, where they were lightly carved so they could enter Hong Kong as legal ivory. Last June, as nations moved to ban ivory imports, Hong Kong set up a special customs task force aimed at smugglers, as well as a 24-hour hot line. It has closed its borders to ivory imports for the time being...
...WORLD TODAY (CNN, debuting Oct. 16, 6 p.m. EDT). Ted Turner's 24-hour news channel made its reputation by being around when the networks weren't. But now it tackles Rather, Jennings and Brokaw on their own turf, with a new hourlong evening newscast...
...what they had done. From Vienna, the West German embassy sent them to a transit camp near Munster in the Federal Republic, where Olaf was quickly offered a roofing job in nearby Ochtrup. He finds the money much better than his old pay -- 18 West German marks ($9.50) an hour, vs. 5.4 East German marks ($2.85 at the official exchange rate). "The materials, equipment and technology are as different as night and day," says Olaf. "Here you use cranes and power drills. There, muscle, hammer and chisel...
...University's HOLLIS on-line catalog computer system crashed yesterday, leaving HOLLIS screens inoperative for more than an hour...