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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facing a feisty new array of commercial competitors. In Italy the state-owned RAI-TV has been joined by three popular networks run by TV Magnate Silvio Berlusconi, who is also part owner of La Cinq. In West Germany, the government is spending an estimated $10 billion to wire the nation for cable (which is already widespread in countries like Belgium and Holland). German cable viewers can choose from such new channels as the Luxembourg-based RTL-Plus and SAT 1, run by a consortium of German publishers. Meanwhile, the skies over Europe are becoming crowded with new satellite services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Commercial TV, Mon Dieu! | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...person who only moments before may have gunned down Prime Minister Olof Palme. The woman turned out to be a portrait artist, and last week she helped police assemble a composite sketch of the suspected assassin. Copies of the computer- enhanced likeness were immediately transmitted around the world by wire services. Said Stockholm Police Commissioner Hans Holmer: "This is the first witness who has given us a face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweden Vanishing Face on a Quiet Street | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...come this week if Aquino and her followers go through with their plan to stage a 24-hour strike. Marcos hinted last week that he might use force to quell any outbreak of civil disobedience. Stung by world opinion and holed up in a palace surrounded by barbed-wire barricades, Marcos may try to reassert his power. If that should happen, the only tempering influence left may be Cory Aquino. "She must steer a moderate course," said Businessman Jaime Ongpin late last week. "If she opts for violence, we will end up in anarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Rebelling Against Marcos | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...rich they are," Hill tells Pileggi, "because strangers can't be trusted to keep their mouths shut." Modern wiseguys who cannot keep their mouths shut are dealt with in a style that has not changed since the '30s. He describes a friend's fate: "Tommy used a piano wire. Remo put up some fight. He kicked and swung . . . They buried him in the backyard at Robert's (restaurant), under a layer of cement right next to the boccie court. From then on, every time they played, Jimmy and Tommy used to say, 'Hi, Remo, how ya doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wrong Lane Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...source of Hill's current misery. "I'm an average nobody," he complains. "I get to live the rest of my life like a shnook." Pileggi draws no moral, but it is obvious that for a wiseguy, life as a shnook is almost worse than death by piano wire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wrong Lane Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family by Nicholas Pileggi | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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