Word: leiser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes last Tuesday, the U.S. press was ready-perhaps too ready. ABC, CBS and NBC together spent an estimated $10 million to cover the interlocking dramas. Each fielded some 400 news reporters, producers and technicians worldwide to cover the stories, pulling many staffers off other assignments. Says Ernest Leiser, CBS vice president for special events and political coverage: "We had to cannibalize the rest of CBS news in order to do it." The Associated Press and United Press International had hundreds of reporters in Washington, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt and Algiers, as well as in dozens of American towns where relatives...