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...Reduction Talks in Geneva have proved so complex that a treaty anytime soon is considered unlikely. The remaining points of disagreement include establishing verifiable limits on air- and sea-launched cruise missiles, placing mutual restrictions on deployment of mobile missiles and, of course, working out an acceptable link between START and Reagan's cherished Strategic Defense Initiative. The START treaty is about 90% complete, but as TIME Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott points out in the following story, the last 10% is so troublesome that a final agreement may not come until after Ronald Reagan has left the White House...
...Since no START agreement is in sight, the highlight of the Moscow meeting will probably be a replay of last December's summit in Washington: the signing of the final draft of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty to abolish medium-and short-range nuclear missiles. Only a few weeks ago, hopes were fading that a skeptical U.S. Senate would ratify the treaty in time for the summit. But prospects brightened when Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze were able to work out last-minute questions about verification...
...industry's chief cheerleader, creating the nation's first satellite-beamed superstation, WTBS, and confounding skeptics by successfully launching TV's first 24-hour news channel, the Cable News Network. In the mid-'80s, however, the cable industry hit a slump, and so did Turner. His 1984 attempt to start a music- video channel died after just a month on the air, his much publicized bid to take over CBS was an expensive fizzle, and his acquisition of MGM left the Turner Broadcasting System so debt ridden that it was forced to get a bailout from a group of cable...
...News Channel). Today cable networks whose survival once seemed dubious -- from the tony Arts & Entertainment Network to the drony Weather Channel -- have become permanent fixtures. New program services, meanwhile, keep springing up. Among the coming attractions: Show Business Today, a channel of around-the-clock entertainment news, slated to start in January; and a revamped version of Tempo Television, which NBC is planning to buy and reprogram with financial news during the day and sports at night and on weekends...
...Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) treaty was blocked as much by divisions within the U.S. Government as by disagreements with the Soviet Union...