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...Thatcher government has obtained legal rulings barring the entire British media from publicizing excerpts from the book. In addition, Britain is pursuing a civil suit in Australia, Wright's home since 1976, to prevent a subsidiary of the British publishing house Heinemann from issuing the book there. The government argues that publication could cause a loss of confidence in MI5's "ability to protect classified information...
...government response has served mainly to renew debate over the tough British laws that allow authorities to ban publication of almost any material deemed harmful to national security interests. Of course, the flap has focused attention on Wright's accusations. After the press was barred from reporting the book's charges, Labor M.P. Dale Campbell-Savours used his parliamentary privilege to state the charges before the House of Commons, which the press reported...
...book as being true." But the government stressed that "except for the limited procedural purposes of this action," it was not conceding the truth of the charges. Still, the Guardian crowed, BRITAIN ADMITS MI5 ALLEGATIONS. Such headlines dismayed some intelligence agents. Said one operative: "They may end up making Wright's book a best seller...
...granted. Word began leaking that General Electric Chairman John Welch, whose desires became paramount at NBC after his electronics giant bought RCA, NBC's parent company, for $6.28 billion last December, had settled on his own man for the job. This week Welch is expected to name Robert Wright, 43, the president of GE Financial Services, to become NBC's new chairman in the fall. Privately, NBC officials confirmed the news...
...Wright's sole television experience is the three years he spent as president of Cox Cable Communications starting in 1980. A lawyer by training, Wright began working for GE in 1969. He has been a close Welch ally since 1973, when he joined the GE plastics group that Welch then headed. Wright is said to have been a major behind-the-scenes force in organizing the merger of GE and RCA. His background suggests a distinct change from the relaxed management style and well-established Hollywood connections of Tinker, who moved the network from the ratings basement...