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Andrew Corp.'s dilemma was doubly vexing because its United Kingdom subsidiary, Andrew Antennas Ltd., had actually signed the delivery contract with Thomson. As a result, even as the parent company was being ordered by the U.S. to stop participating, the subsidiary was being compelled to move ahead by the British government...
...that a fast-tracking high-tech firm would want to talk up. Thus when Andrew Corp. of Orland Park, Ill., which makes sophisticated telecommunications gear, managed to land a $3.5 million contract to supply microwave antennas to a French firm, company officials preened publicly at their achievement. The customer, Thomson-CSF, would be using the equipment to help establish a complex communications network that would serve much of the Yamal region of Soviet Siberia, where the U.S.S.R.'s vast 3,700-mile natural gas pipeline to Western Europe would originate. Then came the Reagan Administration's abrupt...
...fellows--selected from an applicant pool of about 150 American journalists--include two Blacks and three women. This year's class of 11 Nieman fellows included five women, a level Thomson called the "high-water" mark in the program's history...
With television's advantage over newspapers in live coverage, "urban afternoon newspapers just can't compete with the TV evening news," Thomson said...
...Thomson downplayed the drop in female members of the incoming class, explaining that the field of journalists has opened up "vastly" since he took over as curator of the Foundation ten years ago. When the Fellowships began in 1938, the letterheads read "Nieman Foundation for Newspapermen"; it has since been changed to Nieman Foundation for Journalism...