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While plotting the network's defense, CBS Chairman Thomas Wyman began looking for help and turned to Tisch, a shrewd investor with close ties to executives at both CBS and ABC. Recalls Tisch, whose Fifth Avenue office is around the corner from Black Rock, as CBS's Manhattan headquarters is called: "Tom came up to see me about some of his problems with Turner and Helms." A Loews takeover of CBS was not specifically discussed, but the two men reached a tacit understanding. Says Tisch: "CBS knew that if it needed somebody, Loews would be glad to discuss a deal...
...KNOW WHAT YOU'RE STILL SAYING, you shrewd aspiring Yuppie. "Okay, so I can make America a better place and all that. But what's in it for me? What do I have to gain...
Gorbachev's choice of France for his first official trip to the West was shrewd. Under Mitterrand, the country has continued to demonstrate its long- standing status as the most independent-minded of the Western allies. The Socialist President has publicly taken issue with Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), better known as Star Wars. There is also a historic precedent for special ties between Paris and Moscow, nurtured by the late Charles de Gaulle and continued by his successors as a means of enhancing France's role in world affairs...
...about the Russians, an inscrutable enigma wrapped in a mystery. In other words, anyone even casually acquainted with Kilson's political and intellectual history recognizes immediately that he is a figure of considerable complexity. His intuitive and scholarly comprehension of obscure dialects of black life is frequently brilliant and shrewd. Yet his analysis has also been, on occasion, intemperate in tone and mistaken in judgment. In our view, however, his rich insights are unquestionably worth the accompanying imperfections. For example in the recent series of exchanges with black students we tend to concur with much of the substance...
...Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has charmed the diplomatic world with his openness and self-effacing wit. His kindly eyes and unruly silver mane project an image that is radically different from that of his fastidious, poker-faced predecessor, Andrei Gromyko. But like his boss, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shevardnadze is a shrewd, tough-minded politician with steel beneath his smile. Some Sovietologists last summer assumed that Shevardnadze, with his minimal foreign policy experience, would serve simply as a stand-in while Gorbachev acted as his own chief diplomat. Yet Shevardnadze has shown a readiness to take charge of the Foreign Ministry with...