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...ouster. Last week it barred re-entry to the U.S. by Melor Sturua, the vacationing chief Washington correspondent for the Soviet newspaper Izvestiya. In theory Sturua could return if the Soviets reinstate Nagorski's credentials, but that prospect is considered unlikely. Indeed, Newsweek has already reassigned Nagorski to Rome...
...Rome? San Francisco? Liverpool...
...alternative energy sources." Turner happily pays the bills for CNN's seven domestic bureaus and five foreign bureaus (Rome, London, Tel Aviv, Cairo and Tokyo). Total cost of running CNN: a substantial $51 million a year. But then, TV news is always an expensive business. ABC, NBC and CBS decline to reveal their news budgets, but industry sources say each spends about $150 million a year. A single installment of the weekday evening news costs at minimum about $200,000 and can range far higher; one report from Lebanon consumes about $4,000, not counting travel, editing and courier...
...Saturday, Italy also declared it would honor "signed agreements" to produce 59 turbines for the pipeline. Under a $600 million contract, the state-owned engineering company, Nuovo Pignone, is to build the turbines using technology supplied by General Electric. Rome called for "frank and fair discussions" between Washington and the ten-member European Community over the dispute...
HOSPITALIZED. Vladimir Smirnov, 28, Soviet 1980 Olympic gold medal winner in the individual foil; in critical condition and "clinically dead" after a freak accident during a championship fencing match; in Rome. When Smirnov and West Germany's Matthias Behr lunged simultaneously, the tip of Behr's foil struck Smirnov's chest protector with unusual force. The blade snapped off at the tip; the jagged end then sprang upward, cut through Smirnov's wire-mesh face protector and sank between his left eye and left frontal lobe, severing an artery and piercing his brain...