Word: networking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Swedish war materiel destined for Iran through the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. Last week Martin Ardbo, the managing director of Bofors weapons division, abruptly resigned. This week the Swedes are expected to publish the results of a customs investigation that, it is believed, will show that an intricate network of European smugglers has used almost all the North European countries as transit points for weapons trade with Iran...
...claimed a victim: Av Westin, vice president for program development, who distributed to Capital Cities/ABC executives an unpublished magazine article he wrote. Titled "Days of Penury, Days of Affluence," Westin's 18- page memo argued that ABC's producers were more efficient 18 years ago, when he produced the network's nightly news show and funds were scarcer, than they are today. Arledge, who interpreted the memo as a bid for his job, has temporarily relieved Westin of his duties, which include producing the newsmagazine show 20/20...
...budget pressures come at a time when the three networks are already contending with a growing challenge to their onetime dominance of international and national TV coverage. The competitors -- Cable News Network, syndicated news-feed services and local stations -- all use the same satellite technology the networks do to bring live pictures from around the world. Though the number of people watching Rather, Brokaw and Jennings has remained steady at about 44 million, the networks' share of the overall audience has gradually declined. In 1980 the three broadcasts attracted 72% of the viewers; so far this season the proportion...
Just four years after Kamal and Nazir Ahmad created the Overseas Development Network (ODN), the group has chapters at 40 colleges and more than 600 student volunteers. ODN has raised over $300,000 to sponsor, among other things, internship programs in Appalachia, India and Bangladesh...
During its first year, ODN was largely the domain of a few. The Network expanded through personal contacts made by the Ahmad brothers at such campuses as Brown, Berkeley, Mt. Holyoke, and Wellesley. A development conference at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in April, 1984, attracted students from across the nation, many of whom then went home and founded their own chapters of ODN. By the end of the spring of 1984, ODN had 15 campus branches...