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Perhaps no group has done more to dramatize the African anguish than Live Aid, which raised an estimated $70 million during rock extravaganzas in London and Philadelphia on July 13 that were broadcast to more than 1 billion television viewers. Live Aid plans to channel its funds into irrigation and other long-term projects. "Our concerts were trying to keep the starving alive," said Bob Geldof, the Irish rock singer who organized the events. "Now let us give them life." --By John Greenwald. Reported by Edward W. Desmond/New York and James Wilde/Addis Ababa
...Eisenhower probably considered it, but he was concerned about using the Bomb in Korea because it was another Asian country. That had to be in the back of his mind. It was in the back of my mind, at least. And yet he was between a rock and a hard place. He had to end the war, he ruled out the use of ground troops, and all he had was the nuclear option...
...this thing happen? And everybody says, 'Hey, don't look at me, I didn't wanna do it!' The end result being that everyone realizes no one wanted to do it!' " Other signs of the times are noisier. Video games enable players to nuke planets and stars. A rock group calls itself the B-52s. Who does not know the Grateful Dead...
...York City's Lincoln Center last week, there were Brie and French bread, sushi and raw clams, and a black-tie audience that watched Pop Artist Andy Warhol sketch Rock Star Deborah Harry on a computer. Commodore International was introducing its Amiga computer (base price: $1,295), which the firm hopes will reverse last quarter's $20.8 million loss...
...rumors, fed by his wan and wasted appearance, had circulated for days. Rock Hudson, it was said, was suffering from liver cancer and slipping in and out of a coma at the American Hospital in the Paris suburb of Neuilly. Reality was more shocking than rumor. At the hospital last week, a spokeswoman for the actor bluntly announced, "Mr. Rock Hudson has acquired immune deficiency syndrome...