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...Magnate Silvio Berlusconi, who is also part owner of La Cinq. In West Germany, the government is spending an estimated $10 billion to wire the nation for cable (which is already widespread in countries like Belgium and Holland). German cable viewers can choose from such new channels as the Luxembourg-based RTL-Plus and SAT 1, run by a consortium of German publishers. Meanwhile, the skies over Europe are becoming crowded with new satellite services, among them Rupert Murdoch's Sky Channel, which reaches an estimated 5.5 million homes with reruns of The Lucy Show and The Untouchables as well...
After the tensions of the Netherlands, John Paul spent a placid day and a half in Luxembourg. He then moved on to Belgium, where the crowds lining the streets and joining the mass meetings were once again large and friendly, as they have been in so many nations. The Pope was scheduled to fly back to Rome...
...Dear Colleague," began the letter that was dispatched last week to the 13 defense ministers attending a North Atlantic Treaty Organization conference in Luxembourg, as well as to the defense ministers of France, Spain, Japan, Australia and Israel. The message, signed "Sincerely, Caspar Weinberger," was an invitation from the U.S. Defense Secretary to participate with the U.S. in a $26 billion research program for President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as the Star Wars defense system. The U.S., said Weinberger, would appreciate a reply within 60 days...
...that has been going on in several allied nations since President Reagan broached the Star Wars concept in March 1983. No one quarreled publicly with the notion that the U.S. had the right, under existing security treaties, to conduct a space-defense research program; indeed, the ministers attending the Luxembourg meeting endorsed such an effort unanimously, and NATO's Secretary-General, Lord Carrington, described the discussions as "harmonious and constructive...
...serve as a U.S. ambassador; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. The daughter of a railroad-car waiter, she graduated first in her class at George Washington University Law School and later became dean of the law school at Howard University. In 1965 President Johnson appointed her Ambassador to Luxembourg. As Jimmy Carter's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and then of Health, Education and Welfare, she was a forthright advocate of government intervention to solve social problems and a firm administrator of her sprawling departments...