Word: station
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...Cubans are coming! The Cubans are coming! That is the battle cry these days of angry Mexican Americans in the Los Angeles area. The target of their wrath: local TV station KVEA, an affiliate of Telemundo, the Spanish-language television network that hit the airwaves two years ago. Although West Coast Chicanos were at first delighted to tune into broadcasts in their own language, some gradually became alarmed at what they call the "Cubanization" of KVEA, which picks up much of its programming from Telemundo's operations center near Miami. "The programming does not reflect the linguistic, cultural and ethnic...
There are a host of political questions bearing on the Harvard community that still need to be addressed. The council should consider taking positions on the Pittston Coal dispute, Corporation elections and the proposed construction of a hotel on the site formerly occupied by the Gulf Station...
...immediate legal problem can be seen in an analogy to gas stations. Say the stations with the best gas in town all decide on gas prices, and also on the discount they give preferred (even "needy") customers. Further, the practice raises the question of whether the service station owners fix the wages of their attendants, or the price for accessories like windshield wipers. The practice may benefit customers and workers; it may not. But it is clearly illegal...
...said Christiane Weinbauer of Halle, who joined the exodus with her husband last week. "One minute we had decided to go, and the next we were staying for the sake of our relatives or the children or for reasons of security. Then we heard on a West German radio station that the people in the embassy in Prague were being taken to the West. It was Saturday night. We stayed up talking again, and by early morning we were packing. We had finally made up our minds...
Some trains did pass through Dresden, where up to 15,000 besieged the city's main train station, only to be driven back by police wielding clubs and water cannons. The crowd, which included casual onlookers as well as those trying to get on the trains, overturned police vehicles and pelted police with rocks. A total of 7,600 East Germans from Prague reached safety in Hof the next morning, and 600 more arrived from Warsaw the following day, bringing to 15,000 the total evacuated since the embassy occupations began...