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...news broke, Turner arranged simultaneous press conferences in New York City, Moscow, London and Phoenix, which were broadcast live on his SuperStation WTBS, to announce a groundbreaking agreement with the Soviet Union. As Turner grinned at reporters at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, TBS Executive Vice President Robert Wussler clasped hands with Soviet sports officials in Moscow. Turner said that TBS and the Soviets would co-produce and broadcast the Goodwill Games from Moscow next July. The games are expected to draw top athletes from around the world for 160 events, and will be repeated, Olympics-style, every four...
...Wall Street is hot to finance Cosby. Brokaw says he's vetting eager financiers, including four investment banks; but one of those says it's not involved, and a Cosby associate says he and his new partner, Robert Wussler, have had "meaningful" discussions only with Goldman Sachs...
...forced to give cable operators seven seats on the 15-member board and veto power over any decision that would cost the company more than $2 million. It was a major setback for a man who lived by his father's homespun sermons, including the idea, in Wussler's words, that "you hang on to as much of your business as you can yourself...
...days on the sailing circuit, Turner had struck some of those who know him as a joyless monomaniac who pursued achievement not out of passion for the undertaking but out of a tortured focus on the finish line. "He told me 20 times that he never liked sailing," says Wussler. "He said, 'You know, Bob, I got cold and I got wet.' He was more in love with just winning." These days Turner talks about the "Zen experience" of fly-fishing. He has stopped pacing around his home and office (Wussler once counted 74 consecutive circles). And when...
...promise to have no more than two children" -- a belated pledge, since he has five.) He has told intimates he hopes to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. "Ted is the great 'I am,' and anybody he comes in contact with is a means to an end -- his end," says Wussler, who remains on good terms with his former boss. Others are convinced Turner's latest ambition is the purest expression so far of the hero complex he developed as a child while devouring history books. "The culmination of his life would be if our country gets into such a crisis...