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...Matsushita the Tokyo end of management seems in order; the trouble is between Tokyo and Hollywood. MCA's Lew Wasserman and Sidney Sheinberg -- the longest-running partnership in Hollywood -- have been heading the studio, but have openly complained that their pushes to go after CBS and to open a theme park in Tokyo were ignored. The Japanese firm is especially eager to keep the team intact since director Steven Spielberg, who made close to $1 billion for MCA with Jurassic Park, recently announced that he would stop working for the company if his mentor, Sheinberg, were to leave...
...predatory world of American cities, runaways are near the bottom of the food chain. Some are ruthlessly abused; others become urban survivalists, displaying remarkable stamina and cunning. The younger children face the longest odds. "You have people preying on these kids from the minute they arrive at the Greyhound station and the train stations," says Barry Fisher, program director at San Francisco's Huckleberry House. "I remember one 12- year-old girl who was quickly scooped up by a pimp." AIDS is especially devastating: of 12 youths from a Hollywood squat tested last year, half were HIV-positive...
...independence from Portugal in 1975 -- will stop Wednesday. The truce will remain in effect until final details emerge as part of a United Nations-brokered peace treaty, which is scheduled to be signed Sunday. That accord aims to close the book on the civil war in Angola -- the longest and bloodiest battle in Africa. "The Angolan people have suffered for 20 years," said Alioune Blondin Beye, the U.N. special envoy to Angola today. "There is going to be no more killing in Angola."Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...landslide continued in the House, where Judiciary Chairman Jack Brooks of Texas, at 21 terms the longest-serving lawmaker seeking re-election, was ousted by Republican Steve Stockman 52-46 percent. Former Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski was handily defeated in a 55-45 upset by little-known GOP challenger Michael Flanagan. Overall, 32 Democratic incumbents lost and three trailed.Post your opinion to theElection '94bulletin board
...gains for women in the Clinton administration have been the appointments to the judiciary. Of the 143 people nominated to the federal bench, the president named 44 women. All three previous presidents combined did not name half of that number. The appointment that will affect our lives for the longest period of time is that of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court...