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...Drugs" is now a regular feature on the nightly news and the front pages. CRACK USERS' BABIES CROWDING HOSPITAL NURSERIES, blares a headline in the normally staid New York Times. The networks air two prime-time specials in a week: CBS Anchorman Dan Rather can be seen tagging along on the police bust of a crack house in New York City; NBC's Tom Brokaw earnestly questions addicts about the evils of dope. The war on drugs, like the war in Viet Nam, has been brought home to the nation's living rooms...
Narrating the Saturday night affair will be former CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite. Surrounded by pictures of the eight Harvard graduates who signed the Declaration of Independence and laser images of sites in the Boston area, Cronkite will tell the fantastic story of Harvard's rise from a provincial university to one of the most prominent institutions of higher education in the world...
...gilded chair with the ridiculous plugged-in halo was enough to make Walter Cronkite visibly uncomfortable. And with good reason. In Washington last week some 300 diners had come not to honor but to baste him. America's favorite former anchorman had agreed to the $1,000-a-plate roast to raise funds for the newly created Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication at the University of Texas, Austin. Trouble was that try as they might, such luminaries as Dick Cavett, CBS's Andy Rooney and Beverly Sills could barely generate enough heat to toast, much less broil, kindly Uncle Walter...
...south, toward Gaddafi's headquarters. Within minutes, TV correspondents in Tripoli were reporting live via telephone to the three anchormen of the nightly newscasts. A nation eavesdropped on telephone conversations between New York City and Tripoli. "Tom, Tripoli is under attack," said Correspondent Steve Delaney, with admirable directness, to Anchorman Tom Brokaw of NBC, the first network to break the news, at 7:02. "What have you seen and heard?" asked ABC's Peter Jennings of Correspondent Elizabeth Colton. Colton was unsure who was doing what to whom; all she knew was what she heard, felt and saw. "Put your...
...major news was the fall of President Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. But the route to Manila last week was a meandering one for viewers of the three network news shows. CBS Evening News Anchorman Dan Rather introduced the story from San Antonio and Sioux Falls, S. Dak., where he was doing a series of reports on America's farmers. Tom Brokaw launched the NBC Nightly News coverage on Tuesday from Washington, where the big story was the inquiry into the explosion of the space shuttle. And on ABC, coverage of the drama in the Philippines began in Moscow, where...