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...There had been so many lies, so many misconceptions," says Tina Turner, explaining why she wrote I, Tina, published this week by William Morrow. The title describes the new attitude she developed during her mid-1970s breakup with Ike Turner, who, she says, beat and abused her. "Instead of using 'we,' meaning Ike and myself, everything from that point on was 'I' -- what I think, what I want," reflects Turner, 47. Her wants are certainly being met. Last week she became the 1,841st celebrity to get her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And then there...
...discover the outcome of the telephone balloting only when their regular long-distance service is suddenly reassigned to a different supplier on the basis of the voting outcome in their designated area. Dozens of such reassignment possibilities now exist across the U.S. as a result of the 1984 breakup of the Bell System. The main focus of the telephone balloting battle, though, was on AT&T (1985 long-distance revenues: $17.3 billion) and its two remaining major national rivals, upstarts MCI ($2.5 billion) and US Sprint ($1.4 billion). Last week experts projected that AT&T would claim...
...election rules were another outgrowth of the 1984 Bell breakup. At that time, the Justice Department ruled that AT&T would stay in the long-distance business, where it had previously controlled more than 95% of the market, while the seven regional companies, dubbed Baby Bells, managed local telephone service. To whittle down AT&T's market share, the Justice Department determined that consumers should be able to choose their long-distance carrier...
...result has been a widespread competition -- of sorts (see chart). There are now some 450 long-distance carriers in the U.S., in contrast to about 150 before the AT&T breakup. Along with the Big Three national carriers, there are many medium-size regional concerns, like Republic Telecom of Minnesota, which has about 35,000 customers and enjoyed 1985 revenues of $100 million. But a considerable number of the retailers are much smaller operations. What most of them shared was a handicap: to make a long-distance call on their services, customers have had to dial as many...
...government of State President P.W. Botha for "direct interference" in South Africa's affairs. By mid-July, Kaunda was threatening to leave the Commonwealth if Thatcher remained adamant. Reports were even circulating that Queen Elizabeth II, the titular head of the Commonwealth, was worried about the possibility of its breakup...