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...British presence has hardly altered the islands' 19th century lifestyle. Sheep farmers, the economic backbone of the islands, tend their flocks on the treeless hills, oblivious to the hubbub in Port Stanley. Says Jim Clements' secretary of the sheep-owners association: "If we didn't hear radios and see aircraft overhead, we wouldn't know the military is here." The civilian population has grown by only 4% since the war, to about...
When Ronald Reagan's 73rd birthday hubbub subsided last week in Dixon, Ill., the old neighborhood at the top of the hill on Hennepin Avenue tidied up to welcome the rest of the world. People will come from across oceans and states, in campers and Cadillacs, peering in the dark corners of Reagan's restored boyhood home for insight into what makes a President...
...finding the source of the disinformation than in muzzling him. Weinberger stoutly denied any connection with the investigation. "What a cheap shot," said a Weinberger aide. Federal officials said the probe stemmed from a stepped-up effort by the State Department to crack down on disinformation. After all the hubbub, the source of the transcript printed by As Safir remains a mystery...
...cynicism and outrage. Nonetheless, all of France remained fascinated last week with an extraordinary campaign by the Soviet government and the French Communist Party that demanded a greater diversity of views in the reporting by France's state-run radio and television networks. The reason for the hubbub was easy to discern: a desire to affect French news coverage of the Italian allegation that the Bulgarian secret police, and by implication the Soviet KGB, were behind Turkish Gunman Mehmet Ah Agca's attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul...
...embarrassingly unconvincing when it tries to manufacture excitement. But there were some statistics that defied optimistic interpretations: the three networks together attracted less than a third of U.S. households on average; even among those who were home watching TV, nearly half turned to entertainment instead. Despite all their hubbub and hype, all their reaching for meaning, the networks have not yet found a way to make elections interesting to all of the people, even some of the time...