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Tomlinson, 60, a former Reader's Digest editor with a soft Appalachian drawl, tells TIME he had hoped to bring quiet change. "I worked for a year and a half inside the system to rectify" the bias issue, he says. Yet his moves--hiring a G.O.P. activist to monitor the political balance of the news show Now with Bill Moyers, bringing in CPB ombudsmen to police bias, shepherding the conservative Journal Editorial Report onto air--rankled some within and outside public broadcasting. John Lawson, president of the Association of Public Television Stations, says the problem...
...being prepared by CIA agents and their Israeli colleagues to make his country look bad. Within 24 hours of that unlikely charge, an explosive went off in central London, outside a six-story building where both British Airways and American Express maintain offices. Luckily, the detonation came in the quiet moments before dawn. Had it occurred a few hours later, said the police, it would have caused "horrific damage." Authorities have so far been unable to identify those responsible...
...Margaret Thatcher actively supported Reagan. The Mitterrand-Chirac administration in France, like Felipe González Márquez's government in Spain, refused to let U.S. aircraft overfly the two countries. The Italian government of Bettino Craxi harshly criticized the operation, while Helmut Kohl's West Germany was anxiously quiet. TIME's Paris bureau chief, Jordan Bonfante, sent this report on the new strain in Atlantic relations...
...died when she was only a few months old. She married her first husband, Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., a Navy officer, in 1916. Intensely jealous, he occasionally locked her in her room; they were divorced in 1927 after years of separation. The following year she married Ernest Simpson, a quiet, scholarly, American-born Briton, also recently divorced, whose family had a prospering shipping firm...
...Chapin, was suing the trucking company for $25 million in potential earnings; last week the jury in a Brooklyn, N.Y. federal court awarded her $7.2 million. And what does a musical mogul do to relax from the pressures of all that moneymaking? Rogers has taken up photography. In those quiet darkroom hours, he says, "I think better and resolve problems better." His first book, Kenny Rogers' America, a series of black-and-white landscapes, portraits and buildings taken while touring, was published last week. Rogers did not set out to do a book, but when friends suggested it, he liked...