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Nonetheless, Hispanics, expected to become the country's largest minority early in the next century, are being courted by a record number of publications and television news shows. Roughly 145 Spanish-language newspapers and magazines are published in the U.S. In addition, there are some 30 bilingual or English-language publications aimed at Hispanic readers. More than 200 radio stations and approximately 50 television stations broadcast some news and talk shows in Spanish. Their potential audience is vast: the - Hispanic-American community totals 23 million and is growing faster than the general population...
Encouraged by those burgeoning numbers, some American corporations have been eagerly pumping money into a market that once consisted mainly of lackluster small-circulation Spanish dailies. In 1988 the Hallmark greeting-card company bought Univision, the largest Spanish-language network in the U.S., from a Mexican media conglomerate for nearly $600 million. The year before, Saul Steinberg's Reliance Group formed rival network Telemundo, which teamed up with CNN to produce a competing evening national news broadcast...
...Tattered Cover (110,000; Denver). Owner Joyce Meskis says, "We wanted to maintain an ambiance of an old, comfortable slipper." Some slipper. All the books, along with 190 employees and inviting armchairs, are packed into this former department store, making the Tattered perhaps the largest and best independent book outlet in the U.S. But success has brought an unexpected plot twist. Meskis has received offers from several people who want to franchise the operation. So far, she has resisted the temptation...
...economic summit in Paris in July, the leaders of the seven largest industrial democracies devoted a third of their final communique to an appeal for "decisive action" to "understand and protect the earth's ecological balance." Just a month earlier, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, representing the major economic powers, had called upon "all relevant national, regional and international organizations" of its 24 member states to take a "vigilant, serious and realistic" look at "balancing long- term environmental costs and benefits against near-term economic growth...
Since its formation in 1970, the 6,400-member Ulster Defense Regiment, the British army's largest, has lost 180 men, nearly all to terrorists of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Terrorist acts are also committed regularly by extremists on the Protestant side, most of them members of paramilitary groups like the illegal Ulster Freedom Fighters. Last week, acting on growing evidence that members of the U.D.R. were leaking confidential information on I.R.A. suspects to such Protestant extremist groups, Belfast police took the ; unprecedented step of mounting raids against a fellow security force. Some 300 members of the Royal Ulster...