European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday june 1, 1900 the stars and stripes Paga 9 Sony introduces Ems format Vars but company has t Given up on Beta units Tokyo up Sony corp. Unveiled its first vhf far Mai video Cassille recorders tuesday putting a virtual end to inc video War Between Sony s Bela formal and rival Ems. A Sony Ems format wifi video cassette recorder Model and a play Only Model will be introduced in Japan july 21 and will be marketed in the United slates and Europe later this year the company said. The vhf format developed by Victor co. Of Japan Jev Cone of Sony s Chicconi petors has become the dominant video format worldwide beating out Sony s by tampax models. Victor is an affiliate of Matsushita electric Industrial co., based in the Western port City of Osaka. Matsu Shita is Japan s top maker of electronic consumer goods and also Sells its products under the Panasonic and quasar names in the United slates. Sony s first admission of defeat in the video War came in january when Sony announced it planned to manufacture vhf format equipment in Japan and overseas. A spokesman for Sony said the company is nol giving up on Beta and plans to sell 1.5 million Betalma units this fiscal year which began april i up from 1.4 million units sold last year. The official said the company s sales target for vhf format equipment this year is 300,000 units about 20 percent of the target set for Balamas units. Introduced together with two vhf format models on july 21 will he a High Resolution Bola Max based video Casscile recorder which features a wide Range of factory sales compact disc players sales to dealers in minions of units a i f videocassette record Flat sales to dealers in millions of units 11. 1ft 14.s 1084 35 -86 "87 -88 1934 Chaco do Tribune graphic source electronic ind Myrtea association rear -66" Estl mass functions including synchronized editing. Sony also will introduce a video Walkman which combines a 3-Inch, color liquid Crystal display television and Sam recorder into one Light weight portable unit. The video Walkman will be marketed beginning aug. 21 in Japan. Sony said the product is part of the company s personal video concept. Weighing 2.4 pounds the Model has a four hour recording and playback Lime that makes it the world s smallest movie theater Sony said. The video Walkman will sell for $1,024. The unit will be sold in Europe and the United states later this year. Sony also introduced a compact 8-Rnm camcorder which features a variable Speed digital shutter ranging from l-60ih to l-4,000lh of a second and weighs 2.4 pounds. A Metal particle tape will be used for the first time in a half Inch Home use Var for High Quality picture and sound recording the company said. Fired Moscow party chief assails foe who ousted him Moscow a it former Moscow communist party chief Doris n. Yeltsin on monday accused the Kremlin s no 2 official Yegor k. I Gachev of blocking soviet political reforms and said he should quit. Yeltsin s criticism of Migachev in an interview with British broadcasting corp. Was an unprecedented Case of a fallen soviet Leader publicly criticizing those who remain in Power and publicly airing Sharp High level differences. It shed Light on Yeltsin s fall from Power that culminated in his removal feb. 18 As a candidate or non voting member of the ruling communist parly politburo. Yeltsin said Migachev the party Ide Logist should quit because processes in the party Are too slow because the party is still lagging behind because the process of democratization in the party does not develop because the style and method of work Are behind those processes of perestroika and Comrade Liga Chev is the main person responsible for in a separate interview with lbs news Yeltsin said soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev s reforms still face Resis Tance. I think that the process is much slower than we expected considerably slower and to overestimate what is happen ing and to speak and to say that everything is going according to plan in t Only an error this is a dangerous thing to Yeltsin a towering White haired Man of 57, has been an outspoken supporter of Gorbachev s efforts to restructure so Viet society especially of his Call for More open criticism and debate of Public issues. His statements to the bbl indicated he had not backed Down from the criticisms of the parly s policies that led to his removal from the Moscow City Lead Boris n. Yeltsin talks with lbs newsman Dan rather monday in Moscow Reship and the politburo. He said he was Hurt by Gorbachev s refusal to support him after he criticized Migachev at an oct. 21, 1987, meeting of the policy making Central committee. Yeltsin also said Fie is unhappy with his new Cabinet level Job As Deputy head of the state construction committee. There have been minors in Moscow for More than a month that i Gachev and Gorbachev had a falling out. On May 23, the Central committee adopted a Radical program calling for party bureaucrats to Stop interfering in the Economy and government affairs and proposing a limit of two five year terms for elected party posts. Asked by a bbl interviewer whether it was possible for Migachev to stay in the leadership Yeltsin Laid that s up to the Central pressed to a whether he believed i Gachev should resign Yeltsin replied in his Public statements i Gachev 67, has consistently sounded a More conservative theme on opening up soviet society. Churchill biography finished 8-vo/ume, 25-year task London a the final vol ume of sir Winston Churchill s Biog Raphy goes on Sale tuesday and brims with references that could apply to the current Summit. In tills eight volumes and 8.664 pages and look 25 years to write. Still to come arc 13 companion volumes of documents. Britain s wartime prime minister coined the term Summit in 1950, Churchill tried to bring about such a meeting Between East and West but to was rebuffed by his own Cabinet and president Eisenhower. The Churchill Eisenhower correspondence in Martin Gilbert s final volume of Winston s. Churchill illustrates the foresight that often placed the British statesman so far ahead of events that he invited Ridi Cule he foresaw the nazi threat the end of British global pre Eminence and the atomic bomb. In 1933, at the height of the cold War. He wrote to Eisenhower pleading for a Summit with the soviet leadership that took Over after Joseph Stalin died. Eisenhower replied that a Summit would serve Only the soviet propaganda to a speech to parliament Church ill envisioned a secluded setting in which there might be a general feel ing among those gathered together that they might do something better than tear the human race including themselves to Anthony Eden Churchill s foreign Secretary viewed the Summit offer As a signal of weakness to the soviets and wrote in his diary it must be Long in history since any one speech did so much damage to its own Churchill also asked Eisenhower to approve a message to Vyacheslav Molotov the soviet foreign minister of Fering to go to Moscow for informal talks. The president rejected the idea expressing a bit of astonishment and the suspicion that anything the Kremlin could misinterpret As weak Ness or Over eagerness on our part would militate against Success in be Churchill left office in 1955 and died 10 years later aged 91, having failed to bring about a Summit. Gilbert said in Art interview Churchill had a belief which is now if you like fulfilled in Moscow. A belief thai if Only the leaders could sit Down together Progress could be made. This was belittled by All the politicians As absurd and fanciful and yet president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev arc sitting Down new agreements have been signed a whole new atmosphere has been Cre ated and Churchill set it All out in 1953, 1954 and 19ss to critics hav acclaimed never de Spair the final volume and com pared the biography to the rite and fallow the roman Empire with the companion volumes Winston a Churchill was in the guinness Book of records As the world s longest biography even before the final 1,359-Page instalment was published in Britain. Hought Oit Mif flin soon will Issue it in the United states. Gilbert 51, is an Oxford univer sity historian. He began As an assist ant to Churchill s son Randolph who wrote the first two volumes and took Over when Randolph died in 1967
