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...reputation to enhance (except in France) and lacking the really big talents that would bring Nielsen points by their very presence. Lewis has to rely on a barrage of sympathy-grabbing images to make people even a little concerned. USA for Africa does the exact opposite, attempting to emotionally shield people from the problem while taking credit for solving it. And while a starving African might not care who paid his food bill, for a performers to entice money out of rabid fans and then allow the media to place a halo over has head nicely fits the definition...
Secrecy has long been the most controversial aspect of the proceedings. Grand juries have always met behind closed doors to protect the reputations of the accused and to shield jurors and witnesses from possible retaliation. "There's one woman who was a witness in the Goetz case who was scared to death," District Attorney Robert Morgenthau says. "If her name was disclosed, she wouldn't have testified." But critics say the secret presentation of evidence allows the prosecutor to use the grand jury as a political pawn. "The opportunity for abuse is too great and the opportunity for scrutiny...
...away with a regulation that bans a network from owning cable-TV systems, a large part of Capital Cities' business. Joseph Fuchs, a Kidder Peabody vice president and one of Wall Street's top media analysts, thinks that the FCC now sees itself as "neither a sword nor a shield" in the broadcast industry. To speed up Government approval of the merger, Murphy and Goldenson paid visits to the FCC's five commissioners last week. Both men emerged smiling. Said Murphy: "We'll have to do whatever is appropriate to satisfy...
...report. They guide the laundering of illicit money through a maze of banks, real estate investments and other transactions. They provide up-to-date counsel on how to minimize legal exposure--for example, by drilling operatives on what to do and say when they are arrested. Using the shield of attorneyclient confidentiality, full-time Mob lawyers lend their offices as unbugged meeting places for the planning of new schemes. When lawyers commit crimes to "protect the leaders of criminal cartels," said Irving Kaufman, commission chairman and New York federal appeals court judge, "the result is not only a crisis...
...arms control, the Geneva negotiations seem certain to be dominated by a major new issue, one that could profoundly alter the nature of the arms race. That issue is Star Wars, Ronald Reagan's cherished plan to render offensive nuclear missiles "impotent and obsolete" by constructing a defensive shield based in outer space. Officially termed the Strategic Defense Initiative, Star Wars would employ a variety of still emerging technologies, including laser beams and high-energy particles, to shoot down attacking warheads before they reach their targets...