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...entire political establishment and catapulted fringe movements and personalities into new prominence; in many councils they will cast the deciding votes. The balloting has no direct effect on the national government; France is a highly centralized country in which the regional councils have little power. But the outcome does signal a public mood of sour discontent that will make the country decidedly more difficult for President Francois Mitterrand, or anyone else, to lead...
...World Court's ruling, the Security Council is expected this week to adopt sanctions directing U.N. members to break all airline links with Libya, stop all sales of arms to that country and expel most Libyan diplomats. Such penalties, and Gaddafi's desperate efforts to escape them, signal that the civilized world's terrorist counteroffensive has made much more progress than is often generally recognized...
...goes according to plan -- a big "if" when it comes to new technology -- broadcast history will be made in a meeting room on Capitol Hill this week. A new kind of television signal will leave the Bethesda, Md., TV tower of WETA, a PBS affiliate, fly across downtown Washington, strike an antenna on the roof of the Capitol building and zip down a cable into the Thomas P. O'Neill Room two floors below. There, before an audience of Senators, Congressmen and assorted commissioners, magician Harry Blackstone Jr. will draw back a black cloth and reveal the first image ever...
...situation is reversed. With this week's broadcast, the U.S. will seize the lead in the HDTV race, having successfully changed the venue of the battle: from the world of radio- and TV-signal processing, in which the Japanese excel, to the digital world of computers, which is dominated by U.S. firms. "The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in the U.S.," says Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense and now chairman of General Instrument, the Chicago-based company that spearheaded the push to digital HDTV...
...buildings still standing, women and children forage for food and water. A bag of looted U.S. flour is $30, a container of skim milk donated by the European Community is $20, and hardly anyone has money for either. The distended bellies and red-streaked hair of the children signal the malnutrition that is endemic...