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...spends $5 million a year on public TV and is also one of the four U.S. partners in the Ara, bian American Oil Co., issued a statement that it would be "extremely unfortunate" if the show were to hurt U.S.-Saudi relations, but insisted it would not try to inhibit its being shown by threatening to cut off its PBS spending. Mobil, another PBS angel and Aramco partner, ran an ad on the New York Times's Op-Ed page denouncing the film as "a fairy tale" and urging PBS management to "review its decision" to run the film...
...players say this would crimp their prospects on the free-agent market. Certainly the need to surrender proven quality in exchange for open market talent would inhibit many acquisitive owners. But Players Association Executive Director Marvin Miller insists that the game has benefited from interest in high-priced stars. Says Miller: "In the years since free agency, baseball has set four straight records for attendance, gate receipts and TV revenues. Now they say we have to agree to go backward...
...mutual fascination with a biological phenomenon known as viral interference. It was so called because doctors had observed that a victim of one kind of virus-caused illness practically never came down with another viral disease at the same time; the presence of one kind of virus seemed to inhibit infection by any other...
...necessary to carry out China's ambitious modernization programs. Eliminated from China's constitution was one of its key guarantees, the so-called Four Greats: "the right to speak out freely, air views fully, hold great debates and write big character posters." That decision is bound to inhibit any revival of the democracy movement that flowered in Peking last year. No longer will dissidents be able to attack authorities with the posters that, ironically, flourished during the Cultural Revolution-an era that Deng last week swept into the dustbin of history...
...Mogadishu. In 1977 Somalia's mercurial President Mohamed Siad Barre threw out several thousand of Moscow's advisers after the Kremlin opted for neighboring Ethiopia as its principal client on the Horn of Africa. Ironically, the problem that broke up the Soviet-Somali alliance could also inhibit the budding military cooperation between Washington and Mogadishu. That issue is Somalia's continued support for the Western Somali Liberation Front (W.S.L.F.), which since the mid-1960s has been fighting a slow-motion guerrilla war to free the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia from the "black colonial regime" in Addis...