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Producers and stations are now grappling with the problem of how to get some more spinach into the diet -- and, just as important, how to get kids to eat it. A batch of informational shows on the syndication market are drawing renewed attention. They include Beakman's World, a lighthearted science program featuring a frizzy-haired Mr. Wizard, currently seen on 225 stations; Scratch, a magazine-style show aimed at teens, airing on 110 stations; and Real News for Kids, a Turner Broadcasting production carried on 210. NBC has a new Saturday-morning entry in the field: Name Your Adventure...
...first step, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, leader of the armed forces, and his Prime Minister Marc Bazin have agreed to accept up to 400 international observers who are supposed to deter human rights violations and create a climate for free political activity. The first batch is slated to arrive in Port-au-Prince early next week. Negotiators hope this will eventually lead to a pardon of the coup plotters, a new Prime Minister agreed upon by Cedras and Aristide, and an end to the trade embargo that has crippled an already weak economy. At this point the sanctions are punishing...
...season to be jowly. After pursuing the youth market most of the year, Hollywood devotes December to prestige films aimed not at the huge post- Christmas audience but at the senior citizens in the Motion Picture Academy. The goal is a batch of Oscar nominations; the reality is a glut of ambitious pictures that give no one a very merry Christmas. Of seven holiday movies, all but one ignore Hollywood's hard-learned rules of storytelling...
Still, surviving Thanksgiving does not guarantee a safe future or a handsome batch of offspring. For more than 1,000 turkeys, the true day of reckoning rolls around as Christmas approaches...
...field in the personal section of my files under the neatly typed label "TO DO." Maybe I'll type a new label that says "IMPOSSIBLE" so that the flier is not out of place. After all, those grand plans don't sit very well next to my latest batch of unpaid bills...