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...most ambitious venture yet, STAR began offering hourly news reports from the BBC. In November those newscasts will become the centerpiece for a 24-hour news channel, run by the BBC World Service. STAR's all-news service, like its other channels, will be available free (in contrast to CNN, its chief rival); the operation is trying to support itself entirely from advertising...
This concern was reinforced last night when delegate Saeb Erekat, in a CNN interview broadcast on Israel radio, said: "We are the PLO delegation. This delegation was chosen by the PLO ... so if Mr. Shamir wants to deceive himself, I can't help...
...interview with CNN last week, Alexei Arbatov, an expert on international security in Moscow, asked, "Who knows what might happen in even half a year? Extremist forces ((in the republics)) might claim the right" to their own nukes...
During the early hours of the Soviet coup, Scowcroft passed the night in his blue pajamas at a Kennebunkport hotel, waking regularly to check on CNN and rising early to draft Bush's first brief comments, which were careful not to cut off all channels to the plotters. After the coup was over, he again began holding long seaside conversations with Bush, this time about what the coup meant for both Soviet and American nuclear forces. Last week's White House proposal is Scowcroftian not only in its elimination of land-based multiple- warhead systems but also in its soft...
...Hello, a new English-language instructional series being prepared for BBC television, will feature an American among its three hosts. Seems that citizens of the global village, whose idea of proper English was once the measured tones of the BBC, are now more familiar with Yankee accents, thanks to CNN's worldwide reach. Explains Peter Walton, executive producer of the program: "We realized what people want is American English. People were asking, 'Haven't you got anything in American?' " Other BBC broadcasters are doing their best to adopt American-style slang. A budding British John Madden describing a soccer game...