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Despite last week's severe setback, Turner seemed determined not to give up. He talked of raising enough financing to make a cash bid for CBS or perhaps staging a proxy fight for control of the network at its annual meeting next spring. Meanwhile, reports at week's end suggested that the broadcast maverick may already have his eyes on another takeover target: entertainment giant MGM-UA. ENTERTAINMENT Ratin' Rock 'n' Roll...
...Luther, who is now described as "an initiator of a great revolutionary movement." The celebration underlined Honecker's modus vivendi with East Germany's Protestant churches, which have cautiously criticized the stationing of Soviet and U.S. nuclear missiles in Europe. Ultimately, however, the Euromissile issue led to a major setback for Honecker: the cancellation under pressure from Moscow of a three-day visit to West Germany scheduled for last September. The trip would have been the first ever by an East German Communist Party leader to West Germany. Honecker has not yet given up on his notion of Westpolitik, however...
...township unrest as Communist inspired. Over the years, the A.N.C. has trained guerrilla fighters at camps in various black African countries and staged a number of border attacks and acts of sabotage. Its present strength is estimated to be about 7,000 armed men, but it suffered a severe setback last year when South Africa and Mozambique signed a nonaggression pact, forcing the A.N.C. to abandon its guerrilla camps in southern Mozambique. More recently, the South African army staged a lightning raid on what it claimed was an A.N.C. installation in Botswana, killing twelve people...
...don’t see this as a setback...we all hate losing, but I see this as a huge step forward for our team,” Nelson said. “To have a tie with Penn, a ranked team, to go into overtime, and lose by one goal, that’s huge. That is huge for our program. So to take the positives, we had an attack out there that was calm and settled in possessing the ball, and just played pretty lacrosse, and you know what, these are going to start going...
...just wanted to get in it so much,” Farkes says. “I even would swing a little bit on my own, just one-hand swings you know? But I was just trying to do everything I could to avoid a setback...