Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just provide entertainment. They are asked to be socially responsible as well. Because they come into the home uninvited, network programs are supposed to uphold proper moral values and teach life lessons: drugs are bad, race discrimination is wrong, women should get breast exams early and often. Sometimes the second task tends to overwhelm the first: that is, a show is so busy doing good that no one bothers to notice whether it is good. The new season's prime example is ABC's Life Goes...
...could be embarrassed by this wonderful kid? In the opening episode Corky enters a "mainstream" high school for the first time. By the second episode he is running for class president. True, the campaign is launched as a joke by cruel classmates, but Corky turns it into a rousing, and rather implausible, plea for the handicapped. "We have a life, we have dreams, we have hopes," runs his big speech at a school assembly. "We laugh and cry, just like you. All we want is a chance to be your friend." Result: a standing ovation and a narrow loss...
...Tuesday, Ambassador Hermann Huber ordered the embassy gates closed when the refugee population had reached 5,000, then hours later, as the night turned bitterly cold, reopened them to families with children. A new round of departures was scheduled and then delayed. East German officials, moreover, insisted that the second group of trains make the trip from Prague to the West German city of Hof at night, rendering it more difficult for hitchhikers to board...
...Texas decision, which affects the nation's second largest school system after California, is sure to breathe new life into the struggle for more uniform school financing around the country. But by calling for a basic shift in the way schools operate, the court changed the terms of the debate, emphasizing that inequities in funding are linked to inequities in the quality of education...
...triumphant fist waving, Noriega could hardly feel reassured by last week's events. The rebellion was the second failed attempt against him by the Panamanian military in the past 18 months, raising questions about whom the general can trust among his forces. Although a housecleaning of the P.D.F. will follow, Noriega can no longer count on even his inner circle. "This was no gringo plot," says a source close to Noriega. "This came from the general's inner core." That much, at least, can give Panamanians -- and Washington -- hope that Noriega's days are numbered...