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...Cuban missile crisis, which seemed done to death on its 25th anniversary less than two years ago, is skillfully re-created. The show combines interviews with participants (including, thanks to glasnost, an aide to Nikita Khrushchev and another official who was the Soviet ambassador to Cuba at the time) and excerpts from secretly recorded tapes of John F. Kennedy's deliberations with his top advisers. In contrast to the traditional version of the episode, one of the leading hawks, at least initially, is the President's brother Bobby. He is heard suggesting that it may be necessary to "sink...
...improved the team's fortunes by signing the likes of Co-Captain Jim Barton, a Tennessee sharpshooter who was heavily recruited by Memphis State. First Team All-Ivy last year, Barton is currently the nation's 25th-leading scorer, averaging 23.8 points per game...
...pivotal date in their lives. On that day U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry warned about the deadly dangers of tobacco in a blockbuster report. Frightened smokers promptly resolved to give up the habit; some scared souls stubbed out cigarettes on the spot. Last week the Federal Government marked the 25th anniversary of that first alarm with a new Surgeon General's report that charts the progress in the war against tobacco. The past quarter-century has seen "a revolution in smoking behavior," declared C. Everett Koop, the current Surgeon General. "In the 1940s and '50s, smoking was chic; now, increasingly...
...outraged by Brian Hecht's description of the observation of the 25th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination ("Citizen's Recall JFK Death," November 23.) His depiction of Kennedy School students obliviously carrying on "as usual" unmindful of that somber date is inaccurate and misleading. More than that, it is an insult to the entire Kennedy School community...
...TRIAL: LEE HARVEY OSWALD (syndicated, Nov. 22 and 23). This gripping -- and definitive -- television trial, originally produced for Showtime in 1986, makes its broadcast debut on the 25th anniversary of J.F.K.'s assassination...