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...inside the hall, before an audience of 2,500, questions of defense, arms control and dealing with the Soviets dominated the debate. The candidates returned to them repeatedly, even when replying to questions about other subjects. Reagan was at his reassuring best when asked by NBC Diplomatic Correspondent Marvin Kalb how he reconciled his recent conciliatory line toward the Soviets with his previous "evil empire" comments. The President replied that he took back nothing he had said, but recognized, and had told the Soviets, that "we have to live with each other ... between us we can either destroy the world...
...Marvin Kalb, chief diplomatic correspondent for NBC News formerly diplomatic correspondent for CBS (also, a graduate of the Russian Area Program here at Harvard...
...Kalb again...
...stories for Today, in Nightly News reports ranging from Moscow to Samarkand and in an hourlong documentary on space warfare by Marvin Kalb, NBC reporters noted meticulously whom and what they had been refused permission to film and when supervision had been imposed. When Today sought to interview a typical Soviet family, they were introduced to Autoworker Yevgeni Solinezin, 48, who is a Communist Party member with a comfortable apartment. He and his wife Nina, a former flight attendant, have traveled extensively in the West, and their son Oleg is an artist. Said Gumbel: "Based on our admittedly limited observations...
...prestige conferred by its venture, NBC expected only modest commercial returns, and it was right. Preliminary ratings indicated that the reports at most marginally increased the newscasts' viewership. Kalb's documentary finished 53rd among that week's 57 prime-time shows. Nonetheless, NBC News President Lawrence Grossman summed up the venture as a success: "Even questions the Soviets wouldn't answer were revealing, and we were surprised by how much access we had." -By William A. Henry...