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...cities. The U.S. Catholic Conference considers the show unfit for prime time, when 18 million youngsters are in the potential audience, and is lobbying to have it scheduled at a later evening hour. A militant "no Soap" coalition formed by the Southern Baptists and nine other religious and civic organizations has been pressuring local stations and sponsors to boycott the program. As of last week, 17 of ABC's outlets did not run Soap. In addition, 47 stations in the South and Midwest ran the show an hour later than the network...
...report dealt a devastating and possibly fatal blow to Beame's primary chances. Most of his rivals quickly jumped on the mayor. Said Koch: "Beame was running the city like a second-class candy store." Typically low-keyed, Cuomo called it "sad" that Beame's lengthy civic career should culminate in such charges...
...Washington on human rights. The Administration hopes to keep relations from deteriorating further-without, however, backing off on human rights entirely. Thus Todman was to shore up relations with the continent's right-wing military regimes, while Derian would press Carter's human rights campaign with civic leaders and government officials. In what was seen as an important move to improve relations with Washington, Chile's President Augusto Pinochet announced late last week that he was disbanding the country's notorious secret police agency, DINA. The action came shortly after Todman arrived...
...luck, perhaps, but not his views. H.L. ignored Dallas civic projects. Ray is investing $210 million in the Reunion redevelopment project, not far from the city's least loved landmark, the Texas School Book Depository. The project includes a 30-story Hyatt Regency Hotel to be opened next summer, a 50-story tower with revolving restaurant now half complete, and an office building to be started later. In 1973 Ray also put up $400,000 to launch a Dallas city magazine, D. Its first issue featured an article severely criticizing his father for doing nothing to boost Dallas...
...attitude persists. Without that spirit, he would insist, politicians would cheat and lie and always get away with it; government snoopery and police brutality would go undetected and unchecked; products would never be shown up for being less than advertised; wretched conditions, unreported and uncorrected, might bring on civic disorder-in a thousand ways, both trivial and important, the world would be a different place. Warming to his case, a reporter might take his stand with Bertrand Russell, who said that it was no more the duty of a philosopher than of an accountant to return a favorable balance sheet...