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...stations in particular are attracted to network news and information programming as a way of distinguishing themselves from FM, which has captured the bulk of the music audience. Stations often find it both better and cheaper to put on a network show rather than hire a local personality, especially for nights, weekends and other lower-rated radio time slots. Audiences may not even know they are hearing a network broadcast because local phone numbers and recorded promos are sometimes used to maintain a local flavor...
...radio each weekday morning. "If someone told me I couldn't do any more TV, I'd be unhappy. But if I had to choose, it would be radio." Another stalwart of the medium, News Commentator Paul Harvey is a surviving link to an earlier era of network radio. On the air for more than 40 years, he is the most widely heard personality on radio, carried on some 1,100 stations. Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the pixieish sex therapist, was launched to fame by a sex-advice show on New York radio and now also does a national call...
Through a network of 18 affiliated botanical gardens and horticultural research facilities in 14 states, the center this summer coordinated the collection of 92 threatened species, including such exotic plants as the pygmy fringe tree and Gray's lily. It plans to at least double that number next year and hopes to have specimens of most of the nation's endangered plants secured in greenhouses and other protected environments within ten years...
...week the President stepped up a publicity campaign, capped on Saturday by a speech billed by the White House as a "message to the Soviet people." The President expanded his regular weekly radio speech from five minutes to ten and had it beamed worldwide over the Voice of America network. It was a highly personal talk stressing Americans' political and moral values and yearning for peace, and it alluded only briefly to the summit. Said the President: "I hope my discussions with Mr. Gorbachev in Geneva will be fruitful and will lead to future meetings. We seek peace not only...
...defection was real counter by saying that Yurchenko may have been holding back information for his own reasons, parceling it out carefully as he watched how the CIA treated him. The official CIA line is that Yurchenko was in fact quite forthcoming and supplied details about the KGB network in the U.S. and abroad. As for Reagan's downplaying of Yurchenko's revelations, some espionage experts contend that it is the only sensible response for a President who wants to keep Moscow guessing how much the U.S. now knows about Soviet operations...