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Soon after the MGM news broke, Turner arranged simultaneous press conferences in New York City, Moscow, London and Phoenix, which were broadcast live on his SuperStation WTBS, to announce a groundbreaking agreement with the Soviet Union. As Turner grinned at reporters at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, TBS Executive Vice President Robert Wussler clasped hands with Soviet sports officials in Moscow. Turner said that TBS and the Soviets would co-produce and broadcast the Goodwill Games from Moscow next July. The games are expected to draw top athletes from around the world for 160 events, and will be repeated...
...fighting the Nicaraguan government. Brown still promises a $10,000 bounty, announced in 1979, for the return of Dictator Idi Amin to Uganda to stand trial. But that reward is peanuts compared with his latest offer: $1 million to any pilot who defects with an Mi-24 helicopter, the Soviet hightech chopper delivered to the Sandinistas last year...
There was, however, another factor, one still enmeshed in historical controversy. By the end of July, Japan was reeling. It was likely that a Soviet declaration of war would be the coup de grace. Gar Alperovitz, a historical revisionist whose newly updated Atomic Diplomacy is a harsh critique of American policy, argues that Truman was well aware of this. One of his principal goals during the Big Three meeting in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam in July 1945 was to secure Stalin's pledge to enter the war within a few weeks. When the Soviet dictator agreed, Truman jotted...
American officials, however, were already having second thoughts about entering into another partnership with the Soviets. Stalin was, to say the least, a troublesome ally in the occupation of liberated Europe. When news of the successful Alamogordo test reached Potsdam, top American officials began to view the Bomb as a way to avoid the need for Soviet involvement in the Pacific war, rather than viewing Soviet involvement as a way to avoid the need for the Bomb. Secretary of State James Byrnes, Truman's closest confidant on atomic matters, was eager to "get the Japanese affair over before the Russians...
...experiencing a spider migration described by the agricultural commissioner as "common." If cobwebs can result in community hysteria and "burning skin and eyes," certainly the odors common to any waste facility have little chance of being understood. Jan Lachenmaier Director of Public Relations Casmalia Resources Santa Barbara, Calif. Soviet Charmer...