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...rising tensions between the U.S. and Libya were dramatically demonstrated last week in an extraordinary exchange of charges over the existence of the hit teams. Interviewed on ABC'S This Week with David Brinkley (see PRESS), Gaddafi stoutly?and predictably?denied he had sent agents to kill Reagan...
...David Stockman survives in the Reagan Administration, it probably won't be because of the damage-limiting support he got from two conservative newspaper columnists. On David Brinkley's new ABC show, George F. Will predicted that "Stockman will come out of this as an enhanced asset" because the man who could testify one way to Congress and talk another way to a journalist friend who quoted him in the Atlantic Monthly had shown himself "open to evidence." Try telling that to a Congressman whose vote turned on believing Stockman's knowing deceptions the first time around...
...about energy finds himself bumped for a Middle Eastern head of state ready to fly across the Atlantic just to Face the Nation or Meet the Press. Suppliants among politicians overnight become the sought-after when they become controversial. Timing can help or hurt. Stockman was to have been Brinkley's first guest on his ABC debut, then canceled out. With a gulp, a disappointed Brinkley conceded that Stockman was wise to lie low a while...
...Walter Cronkite pitched in, as his successor Dan Rather repeated, "to put this thing into perspective"; NBC Anchor John Chancellor worked side by side with his successor, Tom Brokaw; ABC Good Morning America Correspondent Steve Bell co-anchored with Frank Reynolds, assisted by Ted Koppel, Barbara Walters and David Brinkley, in his debut on ABC . They, in turn, called on government leaders and political analysts for help in sorting out the implications of the tragedy in Cairo...
Anheuser-Busch says the Brinkley ads are partly a play for the female market. Explains Senior Product Manager Robert Merz: "We decided to showcase a woman in this new commercial because 50% of the light-beer drinkers are women." But G. Robert Holmen, who produces the ads for competing Miller Lite, insists that Natural Light is only using Madison Avenue's oldest pitch of all. Sniffs he: "This is the last gasp for Natural Light. They are relying on sex to sell the product." Shameful...