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...these problems, incompetent nationalist leaders, while touting the trappings of independence, have failed to deliver on essentials, such as economic prosperity and domestic tranquillity. The West, to which many of these new nations optimistically looked for salvation, has been both parsimonious and sanctimonious -- long-winded on advice about the ABC's of capitalism, short on change when it came to providing financial support. The disenchantment has altered the national demeanor of these prodigal states. After taking a new look at their Soviet past, some have tempered their defiance and long for the ! economic stability -- though not the Russification and political...
...number of years, Eugene Cernan was a familiar face on ABC, interpreting the arcana of space flight for Peter Jennings. Today he is president of Cernan Corp., an aerospace consulting firm in Houston. "I carry the label of the last man to leave his footprints on the surface," he says. "I never thought I would carry that label for as long as I have -- and unfortunately I will probably carry it for another generation...
...Emmy winners will be announced Sept. 11 on ABC...
...television news pack admitted that they were nothing more than ordinary Hollywood purveyors of prurience. The cascade of innuendo, inaccurate reports, relentlessly rebroadcast melodramatic tapes are "news" in the way that "America's Most Wanted" is "news". It deals with things that seem to have happened. If only ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox would admit that this is what they now mean by news, the rest of us could resign ourselves to the fact that there aren't 11 news programs in prime time, but 11 cousins of "America's Most Wanted." Instead, the TV news has embarked...
...ABC TELEVISION...