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...shops, city residents have become avid consumers. Color televisions are on sale for $680, along with locally manufactured refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, even keyboard organs. With prosperity has come more time for leisure. In one factory auditorium, an eight-piece orchestra plays nightly, and couples tentatively attempt fox-trots, rumbas, two-steps, even the twist. Says one disbelieving onlooker: "You could not imagine such a thing as this only a couple of years ago. These people were in cell meetings." --By Spencer Davidson. Reported by Edwin M. Reingold/Chongqing
Arms-control Adviser Paul Nitze is the most intriguing member of the summit bullpen. Nitze, 78, a white-haired, spry member of the old postwar foreign policy establishment, has been dubbed "the Silver Fox" for his wily bureaucratic skills. If anyone can find a way to bridge the chasm between the U.S. and the Soviet arms proposals, it is Nitze. The arms-control veteran, however, has been tagged by many Reaganauts as an accommodationist for his willingness to work out a deal...
...suggest that Loew's chairman, Laurence Tisch, who has bought 12% of the company and last week became a member of the firm's board of directors, might try to acquire CBS himself or with some corporate raiders. Says Edward Atorino of Smith Barney: "CBS hoped that bringing this fox into the hen house would keep away other foxes. The trick is not going to work." No one yet knows the plot of the final episode in this CBS series. TELEPHONES Demon Dialers Beware...
People say that Jon Stewart has blurred the line between news and humor, but his Daily Show airs on a comedy channel. Coulter goes on actual news programs and deploys so much sarcasm and hyperbole that she sounds more like Dennis Miller than Limbaugh. Consider an exchange on Fox News in June 2001 with Peter Fenn, a Democratic strategist. At the time, Barbra Streisand had suggested that Californians practice more conservation, to which Coulter responded...
...troubles with MSNBC only freed her to appear on CNN and Fox News Channel, whose producers were often calling. In 1998, Coulter was one of the first pundits to argue forcefully that Clinton should be impeached; she helped lead the charge by writing High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton, which became a best seller. When reporters asked David Schippers, the House Judiciary Committee's chief investigator, for a "road map" to the impeachment inquiry, he told them, "Read Ann Coulter's book...