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...order sharp cuts in the power supply. The oil crisis has made it impossible to shut down Soviet-built nuclear reactors in Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia that Western experts consider unsafe. "The gulf crisis couldn't have come at a worse time for Eastern Europe," says Daniel Thorniley, an analyst at Business Eastern Europe, a consulting agency in Vienna. "It has raised costs and diverted Western attention away from the area...
...British Satellite Broadcasting, a well-financed but smaller competitor losing four times as much, Murdoch this month negotiated a merger ofthe rival TV ventures on highly favorable terms. The result: a virtually certain monopoly for the service, projected profit as early as 1992 and -- most important to fretful financial analysts -- an immediate $300 million improvement in the cash flow of News Corp., which has suffered an advertising slump in all its markets. Says media analyst John Reidy of Smith Barney: "This greatly reduces the pressure on Murdoch to scrounge around and put up some properties for sale." Murdoch sounded...
Perhaps the most significant trend in Murdoch's latest maneuvers is that he continues to be willing to risk billions on video-related enterprises while balking at mere millions for print undertakings. Says analyst Rattner: "Clearly he has decided that the future of news and entertainment is electronic. Even buying TV Guide is tied in to that philosophy...
Still, Bush realizes that Sununu, a brilliant policy analyst, has scant feel for the subtleties of legislative or communication strategy. Close friends have urged the President to reach out for help in these areas, although Sununu is so resistant to second-guessing that such consultations are likely to take place only in secret. Meanwhile, Sununu is trying to soften his public image. As Bush barnstormed the country in search of Republican votes, Sununu haunted the so-called buffer zone, the narrow secure area between the podium and the audience, scanning the crowd for a small child. Finding one, he would...
...campaign. Then he was sucked into a controversy over his party's initial gubernatorial candidate, Jon Grunseth, who was eventually forced to quit the race because of allegations of sexual misconduct. Boschwitz came across as feckless during that ugly dispute. As his lead slipped, his camp committed what political analyst D.J. Leary called "one of the most incredible political blunders I've ever seen in 30 years." The Senator's supporters circulated a letter among Jewish voters accusing Wellstone of weak commitment to his religion: "His children were brought up as non-Jews." Boschwitz has always been active in Jewish...