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Just over a month later, on the night of Jan. 28, 45 pop stars got together in a Los Angeles studio to record a simple anthem of compassion. The song, We Are the World, written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, featured, besides the vocal talents of Belafonte and its composers, the arranging prowess of Quincy Jones and the raised voices of some of the brightest names in the music business. Ray Charles. Bruce Springsteen. Willie Nelson. Cyndi Lauper. Billy Joel. Tina Turner. Kenny Rogers. Kim Carnes. Paul Simon. Diana Ross. Huey Lewis. Dionne Warwick. Bob Dylan. And keep counting...
...offshoots will be turned over to USA (United Support of Artists) for Africa, a nonprofit foundation that will funnel funds through established relief agencies. Columbia is contributing its net proceeds, and the singers showed up for no salary. Ken Kragen, a personal manager whose clients include Kenny Rogers and Lionel Richie, was one of the first people Harry Belafonte called. It was Kragen who suggested making the sort of record that British rockers had released on behalf of Ethiopian relief during the holiday season, Do They Know It's Christmas? Kragen calculates, conservatively, that USA for Africa could pull...
...this was a gathering of performers, not a religious retreat, and a certain amount of savvy was required. Michael Jackson, flu-ridden, was not in prime shape for a writing session with Richie. Jones listened sympathetically to his complaint, then said simply, "What time do you want to see Lionel?" Replied Jackson: "Ten o'clock." Once the song was written and everyone was in the studio, Jones did the chorus work first, then went for the solos. "I knew no one would leave for those," he laughs. "But they might leave for the choir part...
...telecommunications talks mark a "watershed in our relationship" in trading with Japan, says Lionel Olmer, the Commerce Department Under Secretary who co-chairs the American delegation. He is hardly sanguine about the outcome. "We are not off to a good start," Olmer told a Senate trade subcommittee this month. Japanese recalcitrance, he said, "lends fuel to a growing international perception that, despite political statements to the contrary, Japan remains committed to keeping its market protected from foreign competition...
...issue a set of trading regulations dealing with telecommunications equipment made by foreign firms. The Japanese, though, have not produced the regulations. Says Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "All we hear is rumors, and the rumors are really bad." So annoyed was Baldrige, in fact, that he considered not sending Lionel Olmer, his Under Secretary for International Trade, to a second series of talks this week with the Japanese over telecommunications trade. Baldrige said that the Japanese once more wanted to talk about "fundamentals." He added: "We have been talking about that for six months. What we need is the nitty...