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...defined, as we know, by an international youth culture that takes its cues from American pop culture. Kids in Perth and Prague and New Delhi are all tuning in to Santa Barbara on TV, and wriggling into 501 jeans, while singing along to Madonna's latest in English. CNN (which has grown 70-fold in 13 years) now reaches more than 140 countries; an American football championship pits London against Barcelona. As fast as the world comes to America, America goes round the world -- but it is an America that is itself multi-tongued and many hued, an America...
...does MTV keep kids interested in such weighty issues? By not getting heavy, for one thing. News is offered as food for thought, not as indisputable dictums. "We'd much rather ask a question than answer," says Tom Hunter, an MTV senior executive. The informal MTV may not be CNN, but that is exactly why kids like it. "Other news is very grown up, dry and impersonal," Germany's Angelique Desvignes, 15, explains. It also doesn't hurt that most of their news teams are barely out of secondary school. Says Victor Civita, 28, a director for MTV Brasil...
...Administration's nafta victory, Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen and his wife welcomed Washington's brightest and best to their 50th wedding anniversary party. Among the 250 guests gathered at Blair House were both Clintons, most of the Cabinet, and ... dressed down in a cozy white warmup outfit, CNN's Larry King, who astonished fellow guests by exclaiming, "They owe it all to me!" Presumably King was referring to NAFTA and not the Bentsens' half-century of marriage...
NAFTA or no NAFTA, however, the squeeze on jobs continues. This is one subject on which expert and public opinion are in rare accord. In the latest TIME-CNN poll by Yankelovich Partners Inc., 54% of those questioned thought it will be harder to find a job during the next year than it has been over the past 12 months, vs. 29% who thought the search would be easier. Two-thirds believed that job security has deteriorated over the past two years, although those years have seen continuous economic growth. When those giving this response were asked whether the insecurity...
...risky move may have paid off for the Clinton Administration as a contentious, sometimes personal debate between Vice President Al Gore and NAFTA opponent Ross Perot seemed to raise support for the pact. Polls showed that opinions of NAFTA became more favorable after the debate, televised on CNN's Larry King Live. At week's end, however, the White House was still at , least 20 votes short of the number needed to pass NAFTA when it comes before the House this week...