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...KPFT has raised $6,000 locally and gotten a tentative offer of insurance from a consortium, plus financial support from national groups. Some 2,500 Houston listeners have subscribed at $20 per year ($12 for students). Still, KPFT subscribers cannot expect to tune in to their station again for six weeks at the earliest...
...death he had evolved into a patient mediator, seeking to settle the quarrels that flared interminably among his fellow Arabs. He even seemed to have abandoned the dream that had prompted the conspiracy: transforming all the Arab League nations into socialist governments that would function as a kind of consortium, presumably with Egyptians at the head...
...fuse them into a single unit would be all but impossible. The closest approach, the 1958 amalgamation of Egypt and Syria into the United Arab Republic, lasted only three years before the Syrians seceded, complaining of Egyptian domination. Nasser's aim after that fiasco was to form a consortium of governments that would remain politically separate but would work together militarily and economically. At the time of his death, he was trying to develop such a complex with the new revolutionary regimes of Libya and the Sudan...
Aprenda Ingles. Leading the fight against WPIX is Forum Communications Inc., a consortium of New Yorkers that includes Harry Belafonte and is headed by former NBC Vice President Lawrence K. Grossman. Defending themselves against Forum, WPIX executives have maintained that they were unaware of the news doctoring. As for the shortage of news coverage, they claim that "the public is surfeited with broadcast news." But since the Forum challenge, WPIX has doubled its news staff and air time and rushed to schedule community shows like Black Pride, Puerto Rican New Yorker, Jewish Dimension and Aprenda Ingles (Learn English). Many stations...
...problems created by the destruction of a Pan American World Airways 747 in Cairo at the beginning of the week were indicative of the industry's dilemma. The 747, insured for $24.5 million, was covered by two kinds of policies-"all risk" insurance, placed largely with a U.S. consortium, and "war risk" protection, 60% underwritten by Lloyd's of London and 40% by the U.S. Government. "All risk" encompasses normal flight hazards including, in U.S. practice, damage to a plane hijacked to Cuba. "War risk" covers loss by enemy action during war. But nowadays, what...