Word: weres
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The popular uprising in East Germany's streets last week, the biggest such challenge since 1953, presents Honecker with a far graver crisis than the refugee tide. It threatens both to fracture civil order and to splinter the once monolithic regime. The confused leadership ricocheted between stern warnings and appeasing...
The extraterrestrial not only phoned, it arrived at the appointed meeting place on time. Hardly believing his luck, the Soviet reporter flipped out his notebook and, in the finest tradition of glasnost, shot out a question: "And what were your feelings on your arrival, comrade spaceman?"
A disillusioned party member views state sponsorship of psychic and UFO studies as a new sort of official opiate. Says he: "They've been feeding us rubbish about the dream of Communism for years, and we now see they were lying. At least this gives us something new to dream...
Pauley's departure is the latest in a series of jolts to NBC's once happy morning family. The turmoil began early this year with the leaking of an internal memo in which Gumbel bluntly criticized several of his Today colleagues, notably weatherman Willard Scott. Egos were still being massaged...
If nothing else, NBC executives seem guilty of violating a cardinal TV principle, the one about fixing things that aren't broken. Today is No. 1 in the morning-news ratings, and has been for nearly four years. Yet its margin over ABC's Good Morning America has been shrinking...