Word: turneritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Turner espoused elimination of nuclear weapons, environmental protection, and active intervention in South Africa. The self-styled reformer also advocated reducing world population through birth control. He opposes aid to starving nations, hesaid, because "Each country has to earn its ownway in the world...
Responding to charges that, as a privatecitizen, he should not try to influence foreignpolicy through actions such as the "GoodwillGames," Turner said, "The Constitution says freepress, and I'm in the press...
...Turner believes that increased interactionbetween nations would help to relieveinternational tension. "When you don't have anysocial contact, you become distrustful," he said,adding that the anti-communist hearings led bySen. Joseph McCarthy influenced him during hisearly childhood...
...Turner, who owns the Atlanta Braves and theAtlanta Hawks, refused to answer questions aboutprofessional athletics. "It's really hard to worryabout sports when there are 25,000 nuclear weaponspointed...
...Turner converted a local TV stationinto what he calls a "Super-Station," broadcastingvia satellite to cable stations nationwide. Fouryears later he began the Cable News Network (CNN),a 24-hour news channel. "My station isn'tbroadcast here in Cambridge, but it is in Moscow,"he said...