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Morale suffered its greatest blow last month when 125 news positions were eliminated and 74 employees were dismissed. The cutbacks followed CBS's decision in August not to renew the contract of Supreme Court Correspondent Fred Graham, who reportedly earned $250,000 a year. The reductions, which affected 10% of the 1,250-member staff, were designed to help pare $6 million from the division's estimated $225 million budget. Though the savings were part of a company-wide austerity program put into effect after CBS bought back 21% of its own stock for nearly $1 billion last summer, some...
...fate of the CBS Morning News, the perennial also-ran among the three network breakfast programs but the one that presented the most substantive news. To boost ratings, Sauter approved the hiring of Phyllis George, the former Miss America whose flubs finally led to her ouster in August. Though the program now is steered by the competent Forrest Sawyer and Maria Shriver, it is a pale imitation of Today and Good Morning America and still runs a miserable third...
...only did Gorbachev repeat Moscow's line that there could be no agreement on reducing offensive nuclear weapons without an accompanying ban on Star Wars development, but he appeared to retreat from what leniency he had previously displayed. In an August interview with TIME, Gorbachev had hinted that he might accept some SDI research, since laboratory activities cannot be verified anyway. But last week, said one American, Gorbachev seemed to be insisting on a "complete ban on every activity in any way related to strategic defense...
...many of the same men who have guided the Soviet Union's relations with the U.S. since Leonid Brezhnev's time. Unlike Brezhnev and some of Gorbachev's other predecessors, however, the General Secretary is unlikely to consult his advisers in public. During meetings with foreign dignitaries, in his August interview with the editors of TIME, and in October's visit to France, the new Soviet boss has allowed the men at his side only an occasional whispered suggestion...
Thatcher had sent a private telex to the White House last August invoking Britain's "special relationship" with the U.S. and reminding the President that Britain supported the American defense buildup "in every way." Some observers took this to refer to Britain's endorsement of the Strategic Defense Initiative, which France has refused to back. But the French obviously believe in dollar wars: the Thomson and GTE bid was a whopping $3.1 billion less than Plessey-Rockwell's. SPYING Painful Stalemate...