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...regard Soviet-American relations as the most important campaign issue." Last week the programs, collectively called The New Cold War, got off to an attention-getting start: during a live interview with Soviet military Chief of Staff Sergei Akhromeyev and Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Korniyenko, Today Anchor Bryant Gumbel asked whether Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko would accept an invitation to meet with President Reagan. It appeared that the Soviets, who had welcomed NBC'S visit, took the opportunity to give the series a calculated boost. Korniyenko's headline-making reply: "There will be no difficulties on our part...
Politically, the series may not have been entirely helpful to Reagan's reelection campaign. NBC correspondents and the people they interviewed repeatedly described U.S.-Soviet relations as having deteriorated, a view that has been advanced by the Democratic candidate, Walter Mondale. But Gumbel pointedly put the blame on the Soviets for having walked out of arms-control talks and waved aside Soviet suggestions that U.S. negotiating proposals had been unreasonable...
Past speakers at the annual awards dinner have included Curt Gowdy, Al McGuire, Bryant Gumbel, Don Criqui and Peter Carlessimo of the National Invitational Tournament selection committee...
...which clashes oddly with the scene it leads into, the laid-back living room of Good Morning America, NBC's expanded Today used approximately the same cast on the same set. The only visible change last week was the less than exuberant mood of Co-Anchor Bryant Gumbel. Though he was given additional pay for having to rise at 4:30 a.m., Gumbel told TIME: "I don't think anybody in his right mind would choose to get up earlier and work more. But I was not going to be the reason why it could not get done...
Another consternating item of last week's news was the summary discharge of Emil Gumbel, statistician visiting the Genetics Congress, from his professorship in the University of Heidelberg. The reported reason: he had offended Heidelberg's patriotic sentiment by declaring that "a turnip is better than a war monument, than a statue adorned by scantily clad ladies." Professor Gumbel denied saying this...