Word: news
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such tactics, activists contend, are the only way to jolt the public's fickle attention back to the AIDS epidemic. "A lot of the AIDS stories are old news, so we have to be enticing to make reporters cover them," says Pat Christen, executive director of the mainstream San Francisco AIDS Foundation. As for vandalism, ACT UP member Mark Kostopoulos declares, "It's easier to scrape off paint than raise the dead...
...nine months advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi has admitted that it was enduring a rough year. But when chairman Maurice Saatchi faced investment analysts in the company's luxurious London boardroom two weeks ago, the news was far worse than anyone had feared. After 19 years of uninterrupted growth, Saatchi's pretax profits for 1989 collapsed, dropping from $217 million last year to just $34 million, an 84% decline. After taxes and other provisions were deducted, the world's largest advertising firm reported its first net loss, of $92 million...
...other occasions to rally support. But this time the conservative onslaught was especially fierce, particularly from Alexander Melnikov, party boss from the Siberian city of Kemerovo, one of the sites of coal-mining strikes that swept the nation last July. In an article in the liberal weekly Moscow News, journalist Danil Granin, who was a guest at the plenum, expressed alarm that "here for the first time, not at a factory meeting but from the mouths of leaders of major party committees, I heard direct accusations against Gorbachev." Granin even heard complaints that "if the capitalists and the Pope...
Such radicalism would not be possible without Gorbachev's glasnost. But the new openness in the Soviet media has also exposed irrational superstitions reminiscent of the last days of Czar Nicholas II. The TASS news agency reports with a straight face that aliens stepped out of UFOs in Voronezh. On TV, psychic healers appear frequently with supposed cures for everything from obesity to detached retinas. As in all periods of great stress, the Christian churches in Russia have seldom been fuller...
...government won the woman's freedom by capitulating to the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, which had demanded freedom for five comrades detained under antiterrorism measures. As news of the settlement spread, supporters of the pro-Pakistan J.K.L.F. thronged the streets of Srinagar, the state's summer capital, hoisting Pakistani flags and shouting slogans. When the crowd turned violent, seven people were killed in skirmishes with police, bringing the death toll to 85 over the past 16 months...