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After the mayoral election Tuesday night. Duechay chaired the first meeting of the Cambridge School Committee since Russell's death in June, sin a politically charged dispute over the acting mayor's authority, the seven-member board had refused to meet until a new mayor had been selected...
Diplomats in Peking and observers in Rome pointed out that Gong had spurned earlier offers of release under similar conditions. Vatican officials suggested the Chinese government acted because it did not want the aging bishop to die in prison. The Vatican asked for Gong's freedom when Jaime Cardinal Sin of Manila visited Peking last year. At least twelve other Roman Catholic priests are believed to remain in Chinese prisons or labor camps...
FOOTNOTE: *Copyright 1984. Used by permission of SIN...
...Nobody but You), the Mexican novela that spun this improbable yarn, was telecast on Los Angeles' KMEX last spring, it drew more viewers for its time slot than any other independent station in the area. Nor was that an anomaly for Los Angeles' thriving Channel 34. An affiliate of SIN (the Spanish International Network), KMEX tops two of the city's three major network affiliates in reaching young adults during certain important time periods. "When I came to this station in 1963, I was told it was a dead-end business because Hispanics would assimilate," says General Manager Daniel Villanueva...
Broadcasters across the country are discovering the same thing. Seventeen full-power TV stations now carry predominantly foreign-language programming, and more than 100 others broadcast at least some foreign-language shows. Twelve are affiliates of SIN, the prospering Spanish-language network that also beams its programming to 325 cable systems and twelve low-power TV stations. Three more are members of NetSpan, a year-old SIN competitor...