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...Today show startled and angered a lot of journalists several weeks ago when it let Terry Dolan, the right-wing fund raiser, use NBC's facilities, cameras and crews to put on his version of a news story. Dolan heads the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). Had NBC capitulated to right-wing pressure? No, insists Steve Friedman, Today's executive producer, the idea was all his own. Dolan considers all network news liberal, bad and alike. So Today staged a match-off: his version vs. NBC's of the same story. The verdict has to be that both were...
...huge creature had to be remarkably light for its size, possibly only about 140 Ibs. Its wing bones were hollow tubes, and its body structure must have evolved for minimum weight. To emulate nature, MacCready's design team is using strong but lightweight parts made of carbon-fiber tubing and Kevlar cloth...
...brutal deaths tripped off a heated exchange between black leaders and government officials. The U.D.F. charged that Goniwe was the latest victim of right-wing death squads that, perhaps with government approval, have been responsible for the disappearance of 27 U.D.F. members since March and the deaths of six, including Goniwe and his three companions. The government promptly denied the charge, and suggested that Goniwe and his companions may have been the victims of "the internecine power struggle between opposing radical organizations...
...President followed an abbreviated schedule throughout his first week back on the job, conducting most of his business from the family quarters in the East Wing of the White House. All told, he spent nine hours in meetings and ceremonies before leaving for Camp David at week's end. Nancy Reagan carefully monitored her husband's convalescence, as she has since the July 13 operation that removed a portion of his colon containing a cancerous polyp...
That is something Aletta shares with her countrymen of every race: a fear of violence, a drive for survival. The Afrikaner right wing is particularly concerned, watching with a sense of both worry and self-justification every development in black Africa, and especially in neighboring Zimbabwe, where the remaining whites are concerned about unrest between black tribal groups, erosion of their own political position, and the plans of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe to turn the country into a one-party state. The creation of South African parliamentary chambers for colored and Indian representation, not to mention the repeal...