US Information Agency Director Charles Wick has developed WorldNet, a $15 million-a-year satellite aided television network, designed to bolster overseas support for American foreign policy. Its expressed purpose is unclear, but WorldNet faces for immediate problems: virtually no one is watching.

US Information Agency Director Charles Wick has developed WorldNet, a $15 million-a-year satellite aided television network, designed to bolster overseas support for American foreign policy. Its expressed purpose is unclear, but WorldNet faces for immediate problems: virtually no one is watching.

The controversy surrounding Yvon d'Argence, former director of San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, and his methods of acquiring art for the museum. In July 1985, questions arose about the authenticity and cost of some of his purchases and d'Argence resigned after a tenure of nearly 20 years.

Many farms in the Midwest are being subjected to foreclosure by insurance companies. The John Hancock Insurance Company foreclosed on the mortgage of one farmer who had won awards for his conservation techniques, the tenant farmer now working the land has discontinued most of these measures, and the soil erosion is expected to increase dramatically.