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...many American papers carried the U.P.I. report of 2,000 deaths, from an anonymous source in Kiev, but scrupulously did not sensationalize what could not be verified. The one major exception was the New York Post, that cynical tabloid that continues to lose millions for its Australian-born publisher, Rupert Murdoch. The Post used half its front page for a black headline MASS GRAVE, adding "15,000 reported buried in nuke disposal site." The flimsy authority cited was the obscure Ukrainian Weekly of New Jersey. A commentator waved a copy of the Post's MASS GRAVE front page over Soviet...
Peter Alexander Rupert Carrington will address Harvard's 336th Commencement exercises today, one day before his 67th birthday. The day's events will leave more of a mark on the graduating seniors than on one of the best and ablest diplomats in the Western Hemisphere...
Calkins will be joined by Itzhak Perlman, an internationally acclaimed violinist; Paul H. Nitze '28, a chief U.S. arms negotiator; Lord Alexander Rupert Carrington, the head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; and Benno C. Schmidt Jr., the next president of Yale University...
...Late Show Starring Joan Rivers will be more than just a pesky new competitor to Carson. It is the first salvo in a major assault on the three networks by Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who last year bought Metromedia's six TV stations and 20th Century-Fox studios. Rivers' program is the first offering from Murdoch's new Fox Broadcasting Co., which he hopes will grow into a full-fledged fourth network. Along with the Rivers show, FBC plans to introduce two nights of prime-time programming next March (one announced show: a half-hour sitcom based...
...which is already widespread in countries like Belgium and Holland). German cable viewers can choose from such new channels as the Luxembourg-based RTL-Plus and SAT 1, run by a consortium of German publishers. Meanwhile, the skies over Europe are becoming crowded with new satellite services, among them Rupert Murdoch's Sky Channel, which reaches an estimated 5.5 million homes with reruns of The Lucy Show and The Untouchables as well as entertainment shows produced in Britain and on the Continent...