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Then there's the dictator. When Manuel Noriega was apprehended, some commentators wondered whether he would ever really be brought to trial, given what he might reveal about his long association with former CIA Director George Bush. They were right to wonder. With the revelation -- mysteriously leaked to CNN -- that the U.S. government has been eavesdropping on Noriega's conversations with his lawyers, the prosecution may have opened the door for Noriega to walk, untried, to a relaxing life in exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Who Wants Another Panama? | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

...what seems to be a gloom and doom year for recruiting, the Harvard students definitely seem to have an advantage," Murray said. "Most all of the firms who interviewed here last year are coming back--and some new firms, such as CNN, will be here as well. The students here should realize that they are quite fortunate...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: Job Market Worst in 20 Years | 1/9/1991 | See Source »

Worst Thing to Try at Home When two doctors working at Atlanta Hospital came up with a radical AIDS treatment -- heating up the patient's blood -- they let CNN know about it after just one trial. The gullible network broadcast live reports of the second attempt at treatment, giving free and favorable publicity to a farfetched, unproven medical procedure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Most of Science & Technology | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

...available. Several phones and a single fax machine connect the ministry with the rest of the world. There are two currency counters and enough calculators to ensure that Kuwait Inc. functions to the proper decimal points. A shredder sits near a large safe, opposite a small television set. But CNN, which everyone is eager to watch, is available only on another TV, two floors up -- a Saudi concession, since the kingdom prohibits the public reception of CNN everywhere else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward A New Kuwait | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...sticking single-mindedly to the warpath, the Bush Administration hopes to scare Saddam into accepting its terms for Iraq's capitulation. But the White House knows that Saddam gets much of his news from CNN. He hears the loud and cacophonous tones of dissension emanating from Congress, and they tell him that the American will to fight for the sake of Kuwait is less firm than the Administration wants him to think. Baker acknowledged that point last week, admonishing the House Foreign Relations Committee, "When you say, 'Wait, wait, wait, wait,' that undercuts a strategy that is showing every possibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Options for Peace | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

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