Reuter Tokyo, Dec. 28 Satellite and cable television is approaching the status of rice as staple in the Asian diet but some governments feel threatened by foreign encroachment on their airwaves. Viewers across Asia are tuning in to a cornucopia of information and entertainment. Millions of Asians now know American newsmen Ted Koppel and Dan…
Reuters New York – Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir pleaded for American understanding in the hours before the Middle East peace conference opened, asking where Israelis would live if they traded land for peace. “It’s our land,” Mr. Shamir told CBS News in an interview in Madrid, where the conference began Wednesday. “How could we…
BONN (Reuters) Germany, in a subtle conciliatory shift, said Monday it was striving to develop a cheaper version of the European Fighter Aircraft in agreement with its partners in the project: Italy, Britain and Spain. Bonn stunned its partners in July when it dropped out of the multi-billion dollar project’s production phase and said it…
MONROVIA, Liberia (Reuters) – Liberia’s Roman Catholic primate said at a requiem Mass on Monday for five American nuns that he held the rebel leader Charles Taylor responsible for their deaths. The missionaries from the Illinois-based Adorers of the Blood of Christ order disappeared about two weeks ago. Archbishop Michael Francis and other church officials,…
SEATTLE (Reuters)- A Boeing Co. spokesman said Monday that the engine lost from a 747 cargo plane on its approach to Luxembourg airport had apparently fallen off by design to prevent greater damage to the wing. The plane, belonging to the Luxembourg freight carrier Cargolux, landed safely Sunday, and none of the four crew members…
13 April 1992 Reuters News English (c) 1992 Reuters Limited TOKYO, Reuters – India intends to ask the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for more contingency funds, although foreign reserves are at a very comfortable level, Finance Minister Manmohan Singh said. Singh, who has spearheaded a series of sweeping reforms that have turned India’s socialist economic…
29 August 1992 Los Angeles Daily News Valley The Japanese government Friday approved an $87 billion spending package – the nation’s largest since World War II – in a bid to jolt the dormant economy back to life. During a late-evening meeting, government ministers rubber-stamped the growth-boosting package totaling 10.7 trillion yen. The massive package was in line…
28 December 1992 Reuters News English (c) 1992 Reuters Limited TOKYO, Dec 28, Reuter – Satellite and cable television is approaching rice status as a staple in the Asian diet but some governments feel threatened by the foreign encroachment. Viewers across Asia are tuning in to a cornucopia of information and entertainment. Millions of Asians…
28 December 1992 Reuters News English (c) 1992 Reuters Limited TOKYO, Dec 28, Reuter – Satellite and cable television is approaching the status of rice as staple in the Asian diet but some governments feel threatened by foreign encroachment on their airwaves. Viewers across Asia are tuning in to a cornucopia of information and entertainment. …
29 December 1992 The Globe and Mail All material copyright Thomson Canada Limited or its licensors. All rights reserved. Tokyo SATELLITE and cable television is approaching the status of rice as staple in the Asian diet but some governments feel threatened by foreign encroachment on their airwaves. Viewers across Asia are tuning in to a cornucopia…