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Sony's big problem, however, is that it risks losing its role as a leading-edge producer of electronic equipment. It has fallen behind Time Warner and Toshiba in the race to set the standard for a successor to the videocassette player called the digital video disc, which offers sharply improved picture quality. And some experts are scathing about Sony's plans to develop its own brand of personal computers with chipmaker Intel. Says Bibb: "The profits are going to hell in the PC market...
DIED. THOMAS WASHINGTON, 58, president of the National Rifle Association; three weeks after suffering a heart attack while deer hunting; in Dearborn, Michigan. His successor, Marion P. Hammer, is the N.R.A.'s first female head...
...Fisher's successor as president of the New England region of the AJC will be Harvard Law School graduate A. Van C. Lanckton, an attorney with the Boston law firm Craig and Macauly...
Interventions in the gray areas the Pentagon calls "operations other than war" are hardest to explain. General John Shalikashvili, Powell's successor as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, is the man who directed the operation that provided refuge to the Kurds in Iraq, and he does not shrink from similar missions to bring succor to strife-torn countries. "We have a capacity like almost no one else," he says. Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Lawrence Korb finds Shalikashvili much more willing to get involved in brush fires than his predecessor. "Powell wanted low-risk operations," Korb says. "But Shali...
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is trying to allay international fears about his recent uneven behavior with a promise that he will abide by elections to choose his successor. "I am leaving on Feb. 7," Aristide was quoted as saying in an interview with Libete, an independent Creole-language weekly newspaper that he founded and directs. The Clinton Administration has been downplaying a spate of killings and riots in the last two weeks after Aristide made incendiary remarks about political opponents and elites. TIME's Tammerlin Drummond reports that the timing couldn't have been worse for Clinton: "Haiti...