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When the treaty reached the Senate floor last week, 90 lawmakers were ready to vote yes. A group of Democratic Senators, miffed at Reagan's reinterpretation of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, has proposed an amendment that would prohibit any future President from reinterpreting the INF accord. But the largest obstacle to speedy approval remained the staunch opposition of a group of right-wing Senators led by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms. One of Helms' more imaginative objections: that Party General Secretary Gorbachev, because he is not head of state (technically, President Andrei Gromyko is), had no right to sign...
...well. Hollywood is unhappy that cable superstations are able to retransmit syndicated shows for a nominal, Government-imposed fee instead of negotiating such fees directly with distributors. Also drawing fire is the industry's growing "vertical integration": cable systems that have a financial interest in program services. The largest owner of cable systems, Tele-Communications, Inc., for example, is a part owner of the Turner Broadcasting System, as well as an investor in Black Entertainment Television, the Discovery Channel and several other cable networks. Time Inc., the parent of the second largest cable operator, American Television & Communications Corp., also...
...didn't take their money and invest it in ((programming)) like Black Entertainment Television and CNN," says John Malone, president of TCI, "they wouldn't exist, because no one else wanted to put up the money." Cable operators, they add, seek the best mix of programming to attract the largest number of subscribers. "We won't carry junk just because we have an interest in it," says ATC Chairman Trygve Myhren...
...important and promising feat in its own right, and all the more extraordinary against the history of the relationship. As recently as 1984, the arms-control process had collapsed. Washington and Moscow were barely speaking. Now the main provisions of an unprecedented treaty that would significantly reduce the largest, most powerful and most dangerous weapons on earth -- intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) -- have been committed to paper...
...More Blacks have been elected to state and local office. And Jesse Jackson has proven that a Black man can run for President in a white America. In nearly all-white Oregon, the civil rights leader captured 38 percent of the vote, while carrying two of the state's largest counties. The preacher's populist theme has electrified labor leaders, liberals, and poor people of all races...