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Greenly calls himself "planet earth's first interactive electronic journalist," and is probably the most widely read writer on the Source. But he is only one of the many unforgettable characters turning up on computer screens these days. Just as radio and television spawned new personalities and stars, the rapidly growing computer networks, from humble electronic bulletin boards to giant information supermarkets, are breeding their own celebrities...
...temporarily displaced Minnesotan, Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion is more than a Saturday-night entertainment. It is a two-hour break from the congestion, the frenetic consumerism and the looniness of California, a sort of "Radio Free Minnesota." Steve Anderson San Francisco...
...first word to the outside world came from Armero's mayor, Ramón Antonio Rodríguez, 34. A ham operator, he was on the radio to a fellow ham in Ibagué, 60 miles to the south, when Nevado del Ruiz erupted, scattering rock and ashes across the Lagunilla Canyon. The mayor was calmly describing the event when suddenly he shouted, "Wait a minute. I think the town is getting flooded." Those words were his last...
...Within hours after news of the disaster reached the city, the local Colombian consul general, Roberto García Archila, was swamped with aid offers. Less than 24 hours after the eruption, an Avianca Boeing 727 left Miami International Airport laden with privately donated medical supplies. Meanwhile, Spanish-speaking ham-radio operators in Miami were relaying messages from Colombia to the Florida consulate, where hundreds of anxious Colombians kept a vigil, hoping for news of relatives and other loved ones in the danger zone...
...founded in 1847 by freed American slaves. Diplomats in Monrovia reported that rebels had attacked the Executive Mansion at dawn Tuesday, using artillery and heavy machine guns in a full-scale battle with government troops. Soon after the fighting began, former Army Commander General Thomas Quiwonkpa announced on the radio that he had overthrown President Samuel K. Doe, 33, whom he accused of corruption and brutality. That evening, however, Doe assured his countrymen that the coup attempt had failed, although Quiwonkpa was still at large...