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In fact, had the establishment not been present at PBS's creation in 1967, President Johnson--a commercial broadcaster himself (Lady Bird owned broadcast stations in Texas)--would never have green-lighted it.
A NYT front-pager by Jeff Gerth, who broke the Loral/China satellite story last April, reports that the Clinton administration is rethinking a $650 million mobile phone satellite deal between China and Hughes Space and Communications that it initially green-lighted two years ago.
The WP discloses that Albright did win aircraft staging permission from Kuwait and is likely also to get green-lighted by Bahrain, which she visits next.
-- Leslie Moonves, TV executive who green-lighted Becker