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Many members of Congress are strong defenders of the agency and are furious with the way it is being attacked. "Heatherly's actions were just unconscionable," says Representative Parren Mitchell, a Maryland Democrat who is chairman of the House Small Business Committee. Lowell Weicker, a Connecticut Republican and the head of a similar committee in the Senate, has called for a hearing with the acting SBA chief. But Heatherly remains undaunted. Says he facetiously: "If that was controversial, I can't wait for the reaction to some other things I have planned down the road...
Negotiations resumed in late 1985, but little progress was made between Murdoch and Brenda Dean, the head of the largest print union. In mid-January Murdoch inaugurated the Wapping plant by producing a special Sunday Times section (it hailed itself as "a landmark in British newspaper publishing"). Furious at this calculated taunt, the printers struck Murdoch's papers on Fleet Street, fully expecting to bring the proprietor to his knees...
...There is furious debate over just how big the evangelists' combined audience is, as well as where each ranks in the ratings individually. A 1984 University of Pennsylvania survey estimated that 13.3 million people, or 6.2% of the national TV audience, are regular viewers of the various shows. That nearly equals the membership of the United Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopal churches combined. A Nielsen survey last year, designed to add cable data to the broadcast ratings, showed that 21% of the nation's TV households tune in to Christian TV for at least six minutes in a week...
Without Moeser, Biotti and Bourbeau the Harvard-Cornell clash will lack some of its finest talent on the ice, but expect the action in the stands to remain fast and furious...
Peter the Great's troubles have left a wake of unhappy people. Schell is upset that a double was used and has vowed never to do another mini-series. Schiller (who is given co-directing and "preproduction" credit) is still furious about his ouster, and has filed a $10 million lawsuit. NBC, meanwhile, has its own cause for concern: Peter the Great will be competing against CBS's steamy mini-series Sins. After surviving production disputes, a disappearing star and a climate that defeated Napoleon, Peter the Great may finally be done in by Joan Collins...