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When Lucie Salhany, then chairman of Fox Broadcasting, announced Murdoch's bid totaling $1.6 billion for the four-year pact, there was a brief silence, recalls Jerry Jones, owner and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys. Members of the N.F.L.'s negotiating team quickly slipped on their best poker faces, but Jones could not restrain himself. He leaped from his chair and cried, "You guys are players...
...critical debate betweennuclear haves and have-notsgot underway today at the United Nations. At issue: whether to extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the 25-year-old pact designed to block the spread of atomic arms.TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonsays the conference pits the major nuclear powers -- the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China -- againstThird World countriesthat want them to disarm before giving up the right to such weapons. The major powers want the treaty to be made permanent, but Thompson says smaller countries "think that freezes the advantage." In New York today, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali...
...that was then. In 1988 Tyson's life spun out of control. There was the marriage to Robin Givens, the death of Jacobs, a pact with King, a car crash, the firing of Rooney. By the time Tyson fought 42-to-1 underdog Buster Douglas in February of 1990, he was out of shape, and Douglas KO'd him in the 10th round...
...oldest old are healthier than the merely old in several respects. Heart disease and stroke, for instance, have their greatest im-pact in the 50s through 80s for men and about 10 years later for women. Those who make it past the danger zones are less apt to be stricken at all. Similarly, Alzheimer's disease usually picks off its victims by the mid-80s. Perls found that men in their 90s outperformed octogenarians in tests of mental function...
...China may have averted a trade war with an anti-piracy pact signed Sunday, but more battles are looming in other categories of commerce. China's agreement to crack down on piracy of U.S.-produced computer software, compact disks, videotapes and other "intellectual property" averted a U.S. threat of punitive tariffs. The agreement brought China a step closer to joining the World Trade Organization, especially if it strictly enforces the new agreement. Chinese membership in the WTO has been blocked by Europe and the Clinton Administration, which object to trade barriers restricting sales of western goods and services there. While...