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Across the square at Toompea Castle, 264 deputies were assembled in the parliamentary chamber for an extraordinary session. After a day of sometimes passionate debate that was broadcast live over radio and television, the legislators, in an unprecedented display of national assertion, voted unanimously to reject a package of proposed constitutional changes that will be presented next week to the Supreme Soviet in Moscow...
...would surely not surprise Frank Cross, the sleaze-hearted TV executive played with conniving brio by Bill Murray in Scrooged. Frank has even planned a Christmas Eve broadcast of A Christmas Carol, with an all-star cast (Buddy Hackett as Ebenezer, Mary Lou Retton as Tiny Tim). He is bursting with creative ingenuity: he wants tiny reindeer antlers stapled on the forehead of a Christmas mouse. But Frank is about to get scrooged by the ghost of his old boss (John Forsythe), and three Christmas spirits want to teach him a lesson in generosity. He will hallucinate an eyeball...
...TRIAL: LEE HARVEY OSWALD (syndicated, Nov. 22 and 23). This gripping -- and definitive -- television trial, originally produced for Showtime in 1986, makes its broadcast debut on the 25th anniversary of J.F.K.'s assassination...
...Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music to bring you a special bulletin . . ." On Halloween eve 50 years ago, Orson Welles' broadcast of H.G. Wells' classic The War of the Worlds panicked citizens on the U.S. East Coast who believed Martians were invading. Last week when a radio station in northern Portugal re-created the celebrated 1938 drama, people again reacted in terror...
Minutes after the anniversary broadcast began in Braga (pop. 125,000), a mini-panic was on. Said Antonio Costa Guimares, one of the show's producers: "It was total chaos." While some residents fled, others rushed to the * spot where the fearsome extraterrestrials were said to have been sighted. In a show of strength that would have startled any alien bold enough to advance on Braga, a local fire chief sent two fire trucks roaring about in search of the outer-space cadets. The program, which had been announced well in advance, was intended as homage to Orson Welles...