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...news is bad for CBS. The network still ranks No. 1 in daytime. In addition, it has grabbed the TV rights to several major sports events, including the baseball play-offs and World Series, the NCAA basketball tournament and the 1992 and '94 Winter Olympics -- though for sums that have been criticized as exorbitant. Some industry watchers contend that CBS, under president Laurence Tisch, is flailing for direction. But Broadcast Group chief Howard Stringer insists that the big sporting events, along with a push for more adventurous programming, will help recapture an audience that has grown rather jaded. "You cannot...
European allies praised Baker's scheme. France and Britain welcome the U.S. as a counterweight to the colossus of a future reunited Germany, though France objects to ceding greater authority to NATO. And Germans themselves seem relieved that the U.S. is determined to remain a European power. Worry is widespread in both Bonn and East Berlin that East Germans' mounting anger at the Communist regime, coupled with emotional longings for "one German * fatherland," could result in violent demonstrations that would paralyze the government. The new leader of the East German Communist Party, Gregor Gysi, last week appealed...
...September after the Wall Street Journal published an account of his business deals, which include a $75 million partnership called China Ventures. Three weeks later, Nixon began his excursion to Beijing. After he arrived, an aide released a background paper pointing out that Nixon had no Chinese business interests. Though the document named no names, some people got the impression that Nixon was contrasting himself to Kissinger, who showed up in Beijing the following week with a group of U.S. businessmen...
Readers not familiar with Sinyavsky's style or the content of his life may have difficulty with the half-submerged facts. He was born into an affluent family in 1925. His father, who appears in the book as a brilliant though ineffectual figure out of a Chekhov play, was a revolutionary but not a Bolshevik. He was individualistic and something of an eccentric pragmatist. While waiting to be drafted during World War I, he practiced writing with his left hand in case he lost his right...
...Though the British Foreign Office said there will be no more involuntary repatriations this year, they are certain to resume unless other nations offer an alternative. The boat people, says a senior British diplomat, "are chasing a dream that doesn't and can't exist." At least not in Hong Kong...