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...Baker resolved to push the strategy again. "Time is not on our side," Baker was reminded in a memo from his top aides four days before the Moscow meeting. "We must convince the Soviets not that we are in trouble and desperately need them to throw us an anchor, but that it is they who risk being seen as a spoiler. The bottom line is this: Soviet reduction of aid and Soviet pressure on its clients are necessary to make up for the leverage we lost in Central America when military aid to the contras was ended." Unstated in writing...
...seemed as astonished as everyone else that the network would now choose him to save Today. "It's quite flattering. I'm not a flat-belly, perfect-teeth kind of guy." In too will come Faith Daniels from CBS This Morning, who will become Today's news anchor...
...Francisco is not the only epicenter of this distress. Deborah Norville, new co-anchor on the Today show and a closet accordion player, assaulted her audience with a blunt instrument rendition of the dreaded Lady of Spain. No earthquakes were reported, though the performance succeeded in further sinking the show's shaky Nielsens, while Norville's personal Richter rating slid glissando-style to C below low A, somewhere to the left of the keyboard...
...former ABC executive who helped negotiate his current lucrative contract. CBS would be willing to tailor its evening news to Koppel's on-camera strengths, emphasizing interviews over canned news items -- a change that would set CBS's offering apart from its rivals'. Koppel has never craved an evening anchor post, but the chance to re-invent the format could prove irresistible. A spokeswoman says, "No one but Ted and his wife knows what his plans are when his contract expires...
Anna Sloan, the nation's 29th-ranked player, and Anne Fitzpatrick, the nation's 37th-ranked player, anchor the Bruin squad. In 1988, Harvard thrashed Brown...