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Passions have never run higher about where and when smokers may light up. "There's a new tyrannical majority that wants to deprive the rest of us of our rights," charges New York City Television Reporter David Diaz, a pack-a- day man. Replies ABC-TV Washington Correspondent Sam Donaldson, an ex- smoker who has been zealously lobbying the White House to ban smoking at press conferences: "I don't think smokers have any rights when it comes to a collision of smokers' vs. nonsmokers' wishes...
Most Americans apparently agree with Donaldson. In a 1985 Gallup poll, 62% of tobacco users and 85% of abstainers thought smokers should refrain from lighting up when nonsmokers are around. That agreement, say tobacco foes, is the result of well-publicized, though controversial, studies on the dangers of secondhand smoke. Explains John Banzhof of the Washington-based Action on Smoking and Health (ASH): "The burning issue in cigarette smoking now is not the harm you can do to yourself but the harm to others...
...Halloween. The goblins of the White House press corps swarmed around, wanting to know how the Soviets felt about going to interview Ronald Reagan. ABC's Sam Donaldson shouted, "Are you going to ask him about 'the evil empire'?" The visitors, looking apprehensive, smiled determinedly, declined to answer and trudged through the horde...
...averaged less than 4% from 1979 to 1984, while the rest of the industry was setting a 10% to 12% pace. Earnings slipped sharply during the quarter ending in June, falling to $77 million from $111 million a year earlier. Says William Leach, an analyst with Wall Street's Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette: "General Foods just seems to have an inability to bring success down to the bottom line. A company like Sara Lee, which has a much weaker market position and fewer glamorous products, is turning out consistently more impressive earnings year after year...
...frock with patches of blue, orange, raspberry and green. "We'd better get a fire extinguisher," said Press Secretary Larry Speakes. Portraits of George and Martha Washington stared down on sound technicians who padded below in their Nikes. With the lights full ablaze, the atmosphere was, as Donaldson suggested, something like a prizefight...