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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government, was a coup for the U.S. firm. AT&T triumphed over a homegrown bid from Fiat, as well as proposals from French, West German and Swedish competitors. The Italian project will help give AT&T a strong foothold in the fast-growing European telecommunications market. Italtel, for its part, hopes to parlay its new association into expanded phone-equipment exports...
GLORY! GLORY! (HBO, debuting Feb. 19 and 20, 9 p.m. EST). Jim and Tammy could raise the bucks at least. In this two-part movie, Richard Thomas plays the dullest evangelist on TV, who recruits a drugged-out rock singer to save his ministry...
...Brasilia (Brazil Ranch), reportedly owned by Alberto Toro, brother-in-law of the notorious coke lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria. Early last week the raiders descended on Hacienda Napoles, the grandest -- and gaudiest -- of Escobar's several country estates. The helicopters landed to the trumpeting of three caged elephants, part of a private zoo maintained by the drug kingpin. Not found was Escobar, one of the world's most wanted criminals, who has eluded Colombian authorities dozens of times...
...George Bush, who began his presidency by emphasizing high standards, found himself so quickly saddled with so many embarrassments? Part of the answer is that, ethics aside, friendship and political alliances go a long way with Bush -- and with the rest of Washington. If Tower does not show up in public drunk, with an Iranian arms merchant on one arm and a female KGB officer on the other, he may make...
Legislators are haunted by the specter of defeated colleagues, even those from another era. Jimmy Carter was still President when House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Al Ullman lost a re-election bid in 1980, in part because of his advocacy of a value-added tax. But nearly a decade later, a Congressman cannot even discuss the possibility of that kind of tax increase without being warned, "Remember what happened to Ullman." Last year, despite the 99% re- election rate, two powerful House Democrats were rejected by the voters. Such dramatic defeats are frightening to legislators, argues G.O.P. Congressman Newt...