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These network-owned channels have been guaranteed carriage in major markets; the fate of other cable newcomers has been much different. In April, Ted Turner launched Turner Classic Movies, which offers many vintage, long-unseen films from Turner's MGM and Warner Bros. archives. Cable systems serving only 250,000 homes were persuaded to sign up. Horizons Cable Network, a pbs-backed channel that plans to cover lectures, panel discussions and other educational and cultural events, had hoped to debut later this year, but it was forced to ! delay the launch after cable systems representing 6 million homes, citing rate...
...Gaullist party chief Jacques Chirac, whose prospects had been eclipsed by Balladur's Teflon popularity, and former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. To crowd the field further, populist tycoon Bernard Tapie, under multiple criminal investigations, headed a high-scoring left-wing, pro-Europe ticket, which could inspire him to launch . a presidential...
...over half the country in just two months. Last week they pressed their offensive into Kigali and the southwest, relentlessly shelling Rwandan army positions and closing in on the seat of the interim government in Gitarama, 25 miles southwest of Kigali. Army troops, their morale plummeting, have yet to launch a single counterattack. Despite ongoing cease-fire talks in the capital, the rebels are unlikely to call a halt to the fighting before the government has been routed and the massacres stopped...
...action against the nuclear facilities. As tensions with North Korea began to look serious, members of Congress worried aloud about the safety of the 35,000 troops deployed in the South, along with their 11,000 dependents. They and hundreds of thousands of Koreans could die if the adversaries launch -- or blunder into -- another...
President Clinton, preparing to launch his welfare reform program in Congress next week, told TIME why he thinks his plan will work. "We go after what is the real source of this problem, which is the inordinate number of out-of-wedlock births in this country" he said in an exclusive interview. Under his $9.3 billion scheme, moms now receiving aid would be forced to work after 24 months on the dole. The program would also crack down on deadbeat dads. In a Congress overloaded with legislation, welfare reform may very well be pushed through because there is bi-partisan...