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...times, Tiananmen looked like the site of a corporate jamboree: supporters of the hunger strikers paraded around the square, their placards and signs bobbing up and down, proclaiming the presence of CAAC (China's civil airline), CITIC (China's largest investment company) and PICC (people's insurance company). Held aloft beside them were the ubiquitous signs inscribed sheng yuan (support the students) or HUNGER STRIKE -- NO TO DEEP-FRIED DEMOCRACY. Other signs had a distinctly American provenance. I HAVE A DREAM, said one, echoing Martin Luther King Jr. Another amended the words of Patrick Henry: GIVE ME DEMOCRACY OR GIVE...
...Giorgis Habte Mariam, the Defense Minister, refused to join the revolt and was killed. There were reports of MiG-21s and helicopter ( gunships screeching over the capital and of tanks and armored personnel carriers converging on the ministry. Meanwhile, in Asmara, the northern provincial capital and Ethiopia's second largest city, Mengistu's Second Army, some 150,000 strong, was in mutiny. In sympathy with the rebellion, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front announced a two-week cease-fire in its 27- year-old war of secession...
Though he retains control for the moment, Mengistu's position is likely to remain precarious. His Soviet-supplied army is one of the largest and best equipped in Africa, but it has suffered what one Ethiopian officer called "disastrous, bloody chaos." Last March it was trounced by rebels from the Tigre People's Liberation Front, which has been fighting the government for twelve years. One year earlier, 19,000 government soldiers were routed by Eritrean forces...
...largest-selling weekly magazine in the U.S., TV Guide might seem to be plenty popular already. But with growing competition from monthly cable guides, as well as from Sunday-newspaper TV supplements, circulation has been slipping -- to 16.3 million for the last half of 1988, down from nearly 17.3 million in early 1987 and more than 18 million in the late '70s. Advertising revenue too has flattened out, dropping 6% in the first quarter of 1989 from a year earlier...
...measure comes amid quickening competition in the cable industry as firms battle harder than ever to expand their market share. Last week Home Box Office, a Time Inc. company that operates the largest pay movie network, said it will launch a 24-hour comedy channel this fall as its first basic cable service. Two days later, MTV Networks, a sister of Showtime, the second largest pay movie channel, announced plans for similar comedy programming early next year...