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...there is an Israeli soldier on my land, I am not ready to contact anyone in Israel at all." Thus his announcement caught even his wife Jihan by surprise (see box). In fact, Sadat had secretly been mulling over the idea for some months. On Nov. 14 Sadat told CBS-TV's Walter Cronkite that he was ready to go to Jerusalem if asked. Menachem Begin responded with Israel's formal invitation. One of the diplomatic sensations of the century was accomplished...
...favor of equal opportunity but compiling poor minority-hiring records themselves, and for red-lining their newspaper vending machine out of nonwhite neighborhoods. Nor does he hesitate to bite the CBS hand that feeds him. He has accused the Tribune's TV critic of being soft on the CBS-TV station; he has twitted his network's leading local anchorman for commentaries distinguished only by "implication and innuendo." The Sun-Times stopped accepting massage parlor ads after Madigan protested, and the voiding of parking tickets among reporters dropped sharply after a Madigan expose...
...roots of the Nutrition Committee lie in the "discovery" of widespread hunger in the United States in the mid-60s. A documentary called "Hunger in America," aired May 1968 on CBS-TV, shocked the American people. They were shocked to find that millions of people in the United States never got enough food to eat and that their government was doing very little to alleviate the problem. The documentary was aired after the publication of a report by the Citizens' board of Inquiry in Hunger and Malnutrition...
...There's a little bit of the child in all of us; we all want to be in the circus," says Actress Betty White, who gets her wish in an upcoming Circus of Stars. White's ringmates in the December CBS-TV special will include Actors Peter Fonda and Richard Roundtree and Jack Ford. White is teamed up with a camel. "Working with animals is a lot easier than working with some actors," she said after the taping. Did she feel upstaged? "Heavens no. I'd much rather see an animal act up there than some tired...
...Stock Records, the group Blondie agreed to change "sex-offender" to "ex-offender." Not all New Wave groups are going to be that docile. The aura of rebellion is crucial to punk's pleasure. Swing-bred parents of the 1950s may have found Elvis Presley corrupt (as did CBS-TV, which cut him off above the pelvis), but the kids loved him. Folk-and rock-bred parents of the 1970s may not love the Dead Boys, but a lot of the kids do. The biggest catastrophe for punk rock would of course be huge success. How does a rebel...