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Should the U.S. rethink its attitude toward Hanoi? Why does Washington support the murderous Khmer Rouge today? These questions are addressed in this week's issue. They will also be pursued in a joint ABC-TIME forum moderated by Peter Jennings this Thursday, April 26, at 11:30 p.m. EDT. Following a 10 p.m. ABC News special on Vietnam, Jennings, with Cloud, will lead a discussion of U.S. policy toward Indochina. Other guests will include Henry Kissinger, General William Westmoreland, Nebraska Senator and Vietnam veteran Robert Kerrey and former Lieut. William Calley, the U.S. commander during the My Lai massacre...
MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT (CBS, April 15, 9 p.m. EDT). Dick Clark and Leeza Gibbons are this year's hosts, and new onscreen technology will show viewers up-to-the-minute scores as the contestants are winnowed. What is this, a beauty pageant or a game show...
...OUTSIDERS (SUNDAYS, 7 p.m. EDT, FOX). TV has discovered a new genre: working-class romanticism. First came Elvis, with its nostalgic retelling of the King's early rise from blue-collar boredom to Top 40 stardom. Now Francis Coppola has turned his 1983 movie about Oklahoma teenagers (based on the S.E. $ Hinton novel) into a lyrical, lovingly crafted TV series. Class conflict is the theme: the three Curtis brothers, scraping along together after the death of their parents, are part of a wrong-side-of-the-tracks crowd known as the Greasers. Their snooty, letter-sweatered antagonists are called...
CAPITAL NEWS (ABC, debuting April 9, 9 p.m. EDT). Hill Street Blues alum David Milch co-created this overly earnest ensemble drama about reporters for a Washington newspaper. Lloyd Bridges presides weekly as the crusty editor...
NIGHT MUSIC (NBC, Mondays, 12:15 a.m. EDT). Assemble a handful of the best jazz, R.-and-B. and rock artists, and turn them loose in a weekly, hour-long musical showcase that has smooth-talking alto saxman David Sanborn as host. Result: the best damn music show on television. Look for Eric Clapton, Robert Cray and Taj Mahal to perform this season...