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Since the December summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow has been dropping ever more arresting hints of its readiness to bring home the 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Last week the man at the top flashed the clearest signal yet, and it sent peace hopes soaring. In a move clearly timed to capture a wide audience, a Soviet broadcaster interrupted a prime-time television showing of the 1958 film based on Mikhail Sholokhov's classic, And Quiet Flows the Don, to read an announcement from Gorbachev. There are "considerable chances," said the General Secretary's statement, that...
...Republican Party and has all the money to prove it. Consequently, he pulled off a huge media blitz against competitor Senator Robert Dole, including a half hour live talkshow. His televised attack on Dole's votes for tax increases and support for an oil import fee signal a healthy diversion from character attacks to policy criticism. His subsequent victory in New Hampshire was essential to halting Dole's post-Iowa momentum...
Perhaps the most significant technological development of the '88 campaign is the widespread use of the portable TV-satellite link. In the past, the only way to bounce a signal off one of the dozens of satellite-borne transponders serving the U.S. was to send the signal up from a large ground station; most stations are situated in major cities. Today, thanks to the development of amplifiers that produce more powerful transmission signals, a video image can be beamed to the transponders via a small (90-in.) dish mounted on the rear of a minivan. Although these satellite vans have...
...more so than last September, when he became broadcasting's most famous missing person. Miffed that CBS coverage of a U.S. Open tennis match was cutting into his evening newscast, Rather abruptly walked off the set just before the network switched to the news, inadvertently forcing the CBS nationwide signal to go black for six minutes. The incident renewed dark suspicions that Rather is too high- strung and emotionally unstable to be running a network newscast. Asked the London Times: "Is Dan Rather, bishop of the nation's news business, losing his marbles...
...Equipment (fiscal 1987 revenues: $9.4 billion) has moved up swiftly with its VAX model by selling machines twice as fast as IBM's at about half the cost. Hoping to retaliate, IBM developed a minimainframe computer, the file cabinet-size 9370, which was dubbed the "VAX killer," a rare signal of Big Blue's anxiety about a smaller competitor. But IBM's new machine has lacked sufficient software to be fully competitive against the now entrenched VAX. IBM sold fewer than 5,000 of its VAX killers last year, far from a knock-'em-dead performance...