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Tokes ran afoul of authorities last August in an outspoken interview with Hungarian television. Among other things, he attacked Bucharest's plan to raze up to 8,000 villages and resettle their residents in high-rise apartment complexes. Some 50,000 ethnic Hungarians would be relocated in the program, which has brought denunciations from international human rights groups and strained relations with the Budapest government...
Nightline (ABC, 1980- ). From the hostage crisis in Iran (which inspired ABC to start a late-night news program in November 1979) to teary Tammy Faye Bakker, all the decade's major stories were illuminated by Ted Koppel's probing questions. When a crisis is brewing, and even when one isn't, the most indispensable news broadcast on television...
Along with tax cuts, Reagan insisted on deregulation (a program actually begun by Jimmy Carter in airlines, trucking and banking). He regarded that as "getting the Government off people's backs," and it involved not just a reduction in official regulations but also a relaxation in law enforcement ranging from antitrust to safety regulations. That may have been beneficial, but it enabled lots of sharp characters to make lots of money in lots of sharp ways. The most extreme example is the savings and loan scandal, which features fraud, bribery, favoritism and freewheeling incompetence. Some...
Most likely to leave you hanging in suspense. Tonight's the final installment of a 34-episode Masterpiece Theater series, and the boss wants you to entertain clients. But no problem! That's why you -- and millions of other Americans -- bought the videocassette recorder with the one-month, eight- program calendar timer and standby one-touch record. Once you have mastered the owner's manual, a lifetime task for some, you just shove in a tape and press a few dozen buttons. What could go wrong...
Under BLM, the mustangs have recovered: 42,000 horses now run free on the range. But their numbers have greatly surpassed the ability of the land to support them. To ease the overpopulation, BLM in 1976 inaugurated a national Adopt-a-Horse program, under which 90,000 wild horses have been sold to private owners. But the mustangs taken off the range annually include many that are too old, crippled, ugly or mean to make good pets. Until two years ago, thousands of unadoptable mustangs were crowded into dusty feeding pens in Nebraska, Nevada and Texas at a cost...