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...historic Bell name and blue-and-white telephone logo. Federal Judge Harold Greene had ruled last month that the trademarks should belong to AT&T's local operating companies, which are scheduled to split off into seven independent regional units on Jan. 1. Bell Laboratories can retain the name, as can AT&T's foreign operations...
Under the ruling, although the networks can retain profit shares indefinitely, they must sell syndication rights by the time shows have been on the air for five years, the usual period before they go into syndication. That would prevent networks from withholding shows from the market. And they have no say in when or where the syndicated programs are aired. In many U.S. cities, syndicated M*A*S*H programs run head-to-head with, say, the CBS Evening News, winning audiences and advertiser dollars from network programs. By 1990, two commissioners said, even that regulatory vestige should be dropped...
...Washington last week to get the commission organized, Kissinger announced plans to conduct a study so comprehensive that its conclusions will not be ready until February. The Administration long before then will have to offer a more convincing explanation of its purposes in Central America if it is to retain enough public support to carry out its policies. Said the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer, in an editorial headlined LATIN POLICY BLUSTER: "If President Reagan encouraged any hopes that the bipartisan commission he appointed might broaden his view of Central America, he is doing everything possible to douse them...
...reality he had outlived his usefulness. The Israelis distrusted him and, more important, the Syrians flatly refused to see him. McFarlane, 46, has little expertise in the region, but the former Marine colonel has won bipartisan praise for his work at the National Security Council. Since McFarlane will retain his present post, Middle East policy will now be brought more firmly under the control of NSC Adviser William Clark. McFarlane admitted that no new approaches were in the offing. "We'll try harder," he said, "but there is no fundamental change in strategy...
Many of the microbreweries are outgrowths of home brewing and retain their amateur trappings. Real Ale produces its ale, porter and stout in a used 30-gal. soup kettle on the second floor of a former stove factory. The premises are shared by five workers and a seven-month-old, beer-guzzling Airedale named Porter. Thousand Oaks Brewing (1982 sales: $23,460) operates from the basement of the Berkeley, Calif, home of Charles and Diana Rixford. In Boulder, Colo., David Hummer, a University of Colorado astrogeophysicist, co-founded Boulder Brewing (1982 sales: $96,000) with two partners in what used...