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The Laingen letter is among hundreds of classified embassy cables, Government documents and personal papers seized by the militants and published in a set of 13 paperback books in Iran last spring. Though the volumes have been sold in Tehran for months, for about $8 a set, the contents became...
Through the fall of 1978 the cables sent to Washington by U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan remained optimistic. He wrote on Oct. 19: "The Khomeni star seems to be waning." But by late December, Sullivan was admitting that the "situation is fast approaching anarchy." On Jan. 16, 1979, the Shah left...
A joke currently circulating in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) recounts an apocryphal exchange of cables between Hanoi and Moscow. "Tighten your belts," wires Moscow in response to a Vietnamese plea for increased economic aid. Hanoi's reply: "Please send belts."
- The Entertainment Channel, the RCA/Rockefeller Center network, will arrive fourth, after CBS-C. When launched in early 1982, it will charge for its programming (between $8 and $10 a month) and also carry discreet institutional advertising, a combination that some viewers may nonetheless find excessive. Forty percent of its selection...
Are there really enough culture-hungry people in the U.S. to support these operations? A number of industry observers doubt it and expect some, or all, of the new networks to suffer a cer tain amount of disappointment. "I don't think the cultural market is that big," frets...