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...Three are getting a new weapon to keep their upstart competitors at bay. In November, barring any last-minute regulatory roadblocks, the Federal Communications Commission will lift the last of the restrictions that for years have prevented the networks from owning more than a small portion of the programming they air and from selling reruns of those shows on the syndication market. The new business opportunities that this opens up, along with an upturn in the advertising market and a healthy profit picture (the three networks combined made roughly $600 million last year, an increase of 30% from 1993, according...
...despite Gingrich's protestations to the contrary, there clearly is a way to lift the financial burden off of Washington and preserve PBS. As independent public television producer Alvin Perlmutter pointed out in a New York Times editorial, simply charging commercial TV and radio broadcasters one percent of their gross annual revenues for the use of their channels would raise $260 million--just $25 million shy of the $285 million granted annually by Washington...
...Thomas E. Petri '62 (R-Wis.) was involved in politics even at Harvard. As a member of the Undergraduate Council, he worked to free up study hours at Lamont Library and to lift restrictions on campus-wide parties over Head of the Charles weekend...
Republicans moved against President Clinton'sforeign policy in Bosniatoday. Senate Republican leader Bob Dole introduced a bill to lift the arms embargo against the Bosnians -- a measure that, if passed, will likely endanger international efforts to bring peace to the region. Dole has long said that he wished the U.S. would unilaterally lift the embargo, so that Muslims could arm themselves against the Serbs' aggression. However, observers have warned that lifting the embargo would have the effect of destroying the on-again, off-again truce that currently exists and encourage the Serbs to start mass killings again. The United Nations...
According to another secret memo TIME has obtained, which Perry sent Lake later in the week, Perry wants to have NATO assume complete command of any evacuation of peacekeeping troops should that become necessary. It might, if Republican Majority Leader Bob Dole's plan to lift the arms embargo unilaterally and mount aggressive NATO air strikes passes Congress. NATO could be forced to attempt a "hostile extraction" of U.N. forces, and at least 10,000 American troops would be needed. In fact NATO is already speeding up its evacuation planning, and Perry asked for authority to tell the alliance...