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...real reasons behind Kennedy's choice? Our book reveals he had an ace in his hand: U.S. technology had provided a way of locating the Soviet ballistic-missile and attack submarines. We believe Kennedy boldly used this knowledge to convince Khrushchev that he should back down. WILLIAM J. REED Puerto Vallarta, Mexico...
...chip to filter out video violence and sex. Still unclear is what Net broadcasts could be affected. The idea alarms free-speech advocates, who wonder why Americans need a Net-nanny. "What you get is a devolution of the First Amendment," argues lawyer Bob Corn-Revere. FCC chairman REED HUNDT says the high-tech industry can "be part of the process" as the agency sets rules. There's a low-tech alternative: the off switch...
...high-powered stock. Ebbers can easily issue the 820 million new shares needed to acquire MCI in a tax-free deal. Both combinations are sure to raise red flags at the Justice Department and the fcc. The GTE takeover in particular would raise "serious competitive questions," warns FCC chairman Reed Hundt...
...Reed Hundt had it wired. As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, he was a prime architect of deregulation, which was going to bring competition to the phone business the likes of which had never been seen. Trouble is, it hasn't been seen, leaving Hundt fuming about telephone-company attorneys. "Shakespeare had it right," says lawyer Hundt. "First thing, kill the lawyers...
Americans were innocent, in the '50s, we are often told. In the '50s, nice women like Donna Reed waited for their honest, hard-working husbands in modest homes on safe, tree-lines street. Their children learned to ride their bicycles and played games with the neighbor's kids--even after sunset. Trouble lay just under the surface, of course: people had to confront racism, McCarthyism and sexism; they built bomb shelters and thought about the Cold War. For the most part, though, these things remained submerged...