Pay As You Play

August, 1985

Washington, D.C.--April 1, 1987--In an early-morning Rose Garden news conference, President Reagan and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger today announced the sale to Home Box Office, Inc., of all present and future rights to broadcast footage of the so-called Star Wars space-based defense systems.The contract grants HBO exclusive permission to broadcast missile-killer-test footage and, in the event of war, actual combat footage relayed from the front lines by noncombatant TV satellites. In r...

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