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Information on Iran, to which Western journalists have limited access, had to be culled from disparate places. From Cairo, Reporter Scott MacLeod canvassed sources throughout the Middle East for an assessment of Iran. Jerusalem Bureau Chief Johanna McGeary and Reporter Ron Ben-Yishai got a vivid picture of internal politics in Tehran by interviewing Iranians in Israel. In Paris, Adam Zagorin talked to Iranian expatriates, while in London, Frank Melville spoke with defense sources and in New York City, Reporter-Researcher Sally B. Donnelly interviewed academic experts on Iran...
...cash in on Olliemania with a two-hour movie to be based on an instant biography being churned out by Boston Globe Reporter Ben Bradlee Jr. The deal is only in the exploratory stage, but Hollywood gossip mills already tab Treat Williams as a natural for the part of the hound-dog-eyed Marine. Some would-be casting agents, however, favor Mel Gibson or Harrison Ford. And who better to portray the portly former National Security Adviser John Poindexter than Edward Asner? On the basis of hairstyle alone, Farrah Fawcett is a shoo-in for the part of Ollie...
When regulation began in the 1920s, the airwaves seemed limited, but today the U.S. has 10,128 radio stations and 1,611 TV stations (compared with 1,657 daily newspapers). The power of the unfettered marketplace is not an unmixed blessing, however. Says Ben H. Bagdikian, dean of the graduate school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley: "I don't think there will be a significant increase in public affairs on TV because it's much more profitable to do other things...
...Texan who filed papers last week was no ordinary sad case: John Connally, 70, former Treasury Secretary, three-term Texas Governor and onetime presidential candidate. Connally applied under Chapter 11 for personal bankruptcy protection and under Chapter 7 to liquidate the failed real estate business he owned with Partner Ben Barnes, a former Lieutenant Governor. Between them, they owe an estimated $170 million...
...North and the others rests with the contents of sealed envelopes of evidence that Walsh filed with the U.S. district court in Washington before the major witnesses began their testimony to Congress. When that evidence is presented, public reaction will not count for much. As former Watergate Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste puts it, "The criminal law is not a beauty contest...