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...TONY AWARDS (CBS, June 5, 9 p.m. EDT). Angela Lansbury is host of Broadway's biggest night. Battle to watch: Into the Woods vs. The Phantom of the Opera for Best Musical...
Want to follow the ups and downs of cable television? Just watch Ted Turner, Atlanta's brash cable mogul and America's most entertaining businessman. In the go-go years of the 1970s and early '80s, Turner was the cable industry's chief cheerleader, creating the nation's first satellite-beamed superstation, WTBS, and confounding skeptics by successfully launching TV's first 24-hour news channel, the Cable News Network. In the mid-'80s, however, the cable industry hit a slump, and so did Turner. His 1984 attempt to start a music- video channel died after just a month...
Eight years ago, Helms hailed Reagan as the champion of conservatism. Now he feels the President has been duped by advisers. In a letter to a friend, Helms wrote, just before the summit meeting in Washington: "So many undesirable -- and dangerous -- things have happened on his ((Reagan's)) watch -- and I am increasingly fearful about the future." Deeply troubled by the prospect of further arms agreements with the Soviets, he is still trying to bury the INF treaty by tacking killer amendments onto it, as he proved last week. His distrust of the Soviets is boundless and personal. He still...
...painful drama to watch. Meese is not, at heart, an evil or fundamentally dishonest man. Unlike some others who have surrounded Reagan over the years, he has not sought to cash in his position for great wealth. But he is careless, perhaps uncomprehending, too hurried and a bad judge of people, events and ethical strictures. Whether or not he has committed a crime, he has too often proved blind to the elevated standards expected of the top law officer in the land. The improprieties are easy for the public to understand: he appeared to help friends who helped him financially...
February 28, 1988: Today is title day. Send a Harvard team into a game. Watch it come home with a title. No fewer than five Crimson squads take home titles today...