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...event was not only made for TV but marketed over ABC for the tidy sum of $2.2 million, about a fifth of the Inaugural bash's entire cost. Saturday evening's gala for the President, featuring longtime Reagan Pal Frank Sinatra as master of ceremonies, was broadcast in edited form an hour after the live presentation at Washington's Convention Center...
...Caribbean island last week were so harmonious. At least seven people were killed and 20 injured in angry demonstrations and looting triggered by a 21% rise in fuel prices, the latest austerity measure by the government of Prime Minister Edward Seaga. Protesters blocked roads with debris until broadcast appeals by Seaga and his political opponent, former Prime Minister Michael Manley, ended the disturbances by late Wednesday. Soon after, a calm blanketed the city, broken only by sporadic looting and the sound of bulldozers clearing the wreckage from the streets...
...being accompanied by elaborate public education campaigns, featuring such devices as study guides and toll-free "hot lines." A groundbreaking film on this front was Adam, a 1983 NBC movie about a family's search for its kidnaped child. Following each of the movie's two airings, the network broadcast a series of photos of missing children. Some 30 were found as a result, and the increased public awareness helped spur the establishment of a permanent national center for locating missing children. In conjunction with next month's telecast of Surviving, ABC * has produced a 30-minute program on teen...
...nearly two hour discussion with four prominent Soviet journalists broadcast last night on Soviet television. Gromyko renewed the Soviet campaign for a ban on development of a space-based missile defense, also known as "Star Wars...
...departure is perhaps the most critical. For the past 18 years, he has enjoyed an almost familial intimacy with the First Couple, acquiring along the way an unsurpassed talent for packaging Reagan in glowing, telegenic images. His most recent brainstorm: asking ABC to include the President, by remote broadcast, in the opening ceremonies of the Super Bowl...