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...dispute since World War II. If Habre decides not to push his fight with Gaddafi into the Aozou Strip, Libyans may push Gaddafi to leave the rest of Chad to Habre. But predictions involving the erratic Gaddafi are always risky. Last week, for instance, he threatened to join the Warsaw Pact. The Kremlin was so taken aback by Gaddafi's suggestion that Soviet Foreign Ministry officials refused even to acknowledge that the Libyan leader had uttered the offer...
...right. In the most bruising round of layoffs yet at CBS's beleaguered news division, some 230 of 1,200 staffers had been let go, part of an effort to slash $30 million from the news operation's annual budget of nearly $300 million. Among the casualties: three bureaus (Warsaw, Bangkok and Seattle), 14 on-air correspondents (including Law Specialist Fred Graham and Economics Contributor Jane Bryant Quinn) and scores of other employees, ranging from low-paid support staff to veteran producers...
...technicians. Each network spends up to $10 million a year to maintain Washington offices, but even the smallest bureau can run up a $500,000 annual tab. CBS spends nearly as much on Diane Sawyer's $1.2 million contract as on the three bureaus it will be closing down -- Warsaw, Bangkok and Seattle. But in a business where personalities win ratings and ratings bring profits, Sawyer wins in a walk...
...emigre actress renowned in Warsaw for roles in the classics. In New York City she shuffles around a decaying and almost bare tenement flat, hanging up tea bags to dry for reuse while intoning Lady Macbeth's hand- washing scene in an odd singsong with a thick Polish accent. No one will hire her, and even she can hear herself and understand...
...telephone someone, anyone, back home, just to ask how things are. After realizing that everyone they can think of has emigrated, gone to prison, committed suicide, become a collaborator or retreated into paranoid fear of the state police, the wife sadly dials the number for the correct time -- in Warsaw...