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This is a dangerous doctrine. Less than three weeks ago, the militant Animal Liberation Front (ALF) firebombed nine British stores which sell fur coats. In New York, Jewish furriers have been the targets of anti-fur vandalism which equates the manufacture of fur coats to Nazism...
Animal rights protests also endanger a field that is more important to human life than coats--animal experimentation. ALF, for example, recently claimed responsibility for sending Stanford University bomb threats because researchers there had successfully infected mice with the AIDS virus, and were testing possible treatments on them...
...order to build up the pot. But the interactive concept may catch on. Youngsters last season could blow away TV villains in Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, and Mattel is developing six more interactive TV products. Guess the culprit on Murder, She Wrote, perhaps? Divine Alf's gag lines in advance? Nah -- too easy...
...absence of other strong programs was moved up to the key ratings month of November, when local-station ad rates are set. A few less grandiose series and made-for-TV movies have been stockpiled, are being made from prestrike scripts, or, as in the case of NBC's ALF and The Cosby Show, were advanced by separate early deals between the producers and the Writers Guild. CBS, which otherwise had little in reserve, hoarded fresh episodes of Murder, She Wrote, and this week starts new installments of The Cavanaughs, starring Barnard Hughes and Christine Ebersole...
...saintly (yes, the pendulum swung that widely) didn't really matter. Once in the race, Bobby Kennedy was the story. We launched what was to become a blur of flights, motorcades, voters pawing candidate, and motels for five, occasionally six, hours a night. First it was in Kansas, where Alf Landon gave him a surprisingly warm introduction. Then on to Tennessee. Crowds were huge, no surprise considering Bobby's celebrity. But they were also friendly. We even went to Alabama, George Wallace country, then to Indiana, where, just before the deadline, Kennedy officially entered the Indiana primary...