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...year ABC veteran, Pierce became president in 1983. Though he ran the network during the 1970s when it climbed to first place in the prime-time ratings race, Pierce also presided over ABC's recent slump to third place. In an effort to reverse that slide, Pierce last November appointed Brandon Stoddard, who headed the company's motion-picture operations, president of ABC Entertainment. He is expected to keep that post...
They provided a convenient time to work on his journals, notes and thoughts about decades of travel, editing, guest teaching, committee work, freelancing and generally keeping up with friends and the literary network on both sides of the Atlantic. The impression left is of a benevolent man who dolefully plays his role as a cultural emissary. He has the appropriate lean aristocratic looks, a title (Sir Stephen since 1982) and a long list of awards and honorary posts, including a term as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. It is not hard to imagine his audiences of college students...
...final address, and I wasn't far wrong," said Foreign Ministry Spokesman Inocencio Arias. After lying low for much of the prevoting skirmishes, González pulled out all the stops in the last few days. He used the government's special access to the single, state-controlled television network to hammer home the importance of the referendum and the reasons for voting...
First, the good news: the South African government reversed itself and decided not to expel three CBS crewmen whose network had broadcast news film of the funeral two weeks ago of 17 victims of police gunfire in the black Alexandra township near Johannesburg. Pretoria had charged CBS with acting in defiance of a government ban on the use of cameras and recording devices at the mass funeral...
...traders ready access to the latest prices for nearly 200 of N.A.S.D.'s over-the-counter stocks, including Apple Computer and United Artists, while U.S. traders can look up current quotes on 288 London issues. The new service, said N.A.S.D. Chairman David Hunter, "is the beginning of the global network for 24-hour equity trading." Next stop for London's traders: the New York Stock Exchange. AUTOS How to Survive A Breakdown...