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...time, in 1980, 64% cited TV, 44% newspapers, 18% radio, 5% magazines and 4% "talking to people." But that adds up to 135%! Well, multiple answers were permitted. A Roper spokesman says that "whatever the deficiencies" of the question, repeating it the same way each time provides a consistent pattern. Yes, but why can't Roper ask, "Well, which is it-do you get most of your news from TV or from the papers?" That would be forcing an answer and lead to impure results, says the Television Information Office, which hires Roper. Leo Bogart, a sociologist who heads...
...HISTORIC Stockholm Conference in 1972, conservationists first made the world aware that natural resources are finite. The meeting kicked off environmentalist movements in number of countries, as people and groups began to realize that the traditional global pattern of resource consumption without regard for the future could lead to disaster. Today, a relatively small circle of concerned scientists have launched a similar campaign to end the wholesale destruction of a little-known endangered resource--the tropical rain forest...
Other West Europeans hope that Andropov's ascendancy will break the pattern of worsening East-West relations. Says Enrico Jacchia, director of Rome's Center of Strategic Studies: "Our colleagues in the Soviet Union who were in close contact with Andropov before Brezhnev's death have often spoken of him as a focal point for more flexible East-West relations." Jacchia, like many Europeans, fears that Washington may pass up an opportunity to exploit openings. "Clearly, there is something new beginning to move in Moscow. Will Reagan and his people react positively to this...
...middle-level people. The next step is higher management." Minority journalists are not so sure. Les Payne, national editor of Long Island's Newsday and president of the National Association of Black Journalists, contends: "Some papers may be better than others, but we still have to break the pattern of inertia." -By William A. Henry III. Reported by Steven Holmes/Los Angeles and Don Winbush/Chicago
...U.S.S.R. until now. Richard Pipes, a Harvard historian who has served as the Administration's senior Kremlinologist, is convinced that a struggle has been going on for some time between young Turks who advocate domestic economic reform and an old guard that wants to continue the traditional pattern of compensating for internal failures by pursuing foreign successes, often in the form of military adventures...