Word: networkers
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...CONVERSION as dramatic as that of Paul on the road to Damascus, Jimmy Carter has finally seen The Truth. Or so one would believe after watching the network news and reading almost any paper over the past few weeks of jingoistic self-flagellation. As ABC's "America Held Hostage" approaches its milestone Day 100, the nightly special seems more and more like the film clips Grumman Aircraft makes for the Pentagon...
This new outlet of religion is controlled almost totally by the Evangelical-Fundamentalist-Pentecostal wing of Protestantism. It is a chicken-or-egg question whether broadcasters foster the Evangelical tide or vice versa, but they now own more than 1,400 radio stations and 35 TV stations. Four religious "networks" feed programs via satellite to stations and to thousands of cable-TV hookups. The network organizers dream of the day they can offer a total "family-centered" and "wholesome" alternative to commercial TV, complete with "Christian" soap operas and newscasts. Their talk shows already draw on a gospel celebrity circuit...
...plans to appeal in federal court, but other broadcasters are deeply worried. "This-decision rocks every broadcasting license in the country," says an alarmed network executive. There may be more rocks and jolts ahead if this action signals a new get-tough mood...
...Iran and Nicaragua, was never really "ours" to lose. The British raj stopped at the Afghan border, and so did the post-World War II Pax Americana. In 1955 John Foster Dulles helped set up what became known as the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) as part of a global network of anti-Soviet alliances. In effect, Dulles was drawing a line in the dust that the Soviets dared not step across lest they incur the thermonuclear wrath of the West. That line ran along the northern frontiers of Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, which were all members of CENTO. In keeping...
Fazal showed Carrington and accompanying foreign correspondents a British-built defense network of underground bunkers, bridges and tank traps that are sorely in need of repair. Reason: Pakistan has concentrated four-fifths of its armed forces along the eastern border shared with its historic enemy, India. Fazal currently commands only two infantry divisions, plus the famed Khyber Rifles formed by the British a century ago. Of the 40,000 men under Fazal's command, 18,000 are paramilitary troops equipped only with rifles...