Word: shutdowns
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Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, facing tight budgets and possible shutdown since the end of the Cold War, may breathe easier thanks to Czech President Vaclav Havel. Last night, President Clinton accepted Havel's offer to house the broadcasters in the former Czechoslovakian parliament building in Prague -- rent-free. The stations, based in Munich for four decades, said the move would shore up their 1,500 employees' morale, but TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says few really want to leave their comfortable German surroundings. The Czechs, he adds, are only too happy to import a prestigious Western operation...
...flight shutdown was the latest move designed to further pressure the military leaders who ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Earlier in the week the Clinton Administration widened the freeze on Haitian financial assets in the U.S. to include not just the military, but all citizens. Meanwhile, reports circulated that the U.S. was offering big cash for Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and his cronies to simply leave the country. The State Department would neither confirm nor deny the rumors, but they clearly were sowing seeds of doubt among the military rank and file about whether their officers would still be around...
...damage--two holes made while moving boxes and during a party--could force the station to indefinitely close, since the College has not yet started construction on its new home, the Pennypacker basement. The shutdown would prevent the station's annual, live broadcast of Commencement...
Despite the possibility of an indefinite shutdown, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III told four senior members of WHRB May 4 that because of potential health risks, the College will close the station down if there is any further damage. He said he will conduct periodic spot-checks of the Mem Hall basement...
...prevent the risk of a shutdown, a second letter from Barylski and Peter F. Rojas '97, the station manager, to WHRB members establishes "security measures" that must be met by all staffers...