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...began 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...
...assets. In return, the Swiss company paid back about $130 million that was owed to 14 U.S. and European banks. The agreement allowed another Rich firm to sell its 50% stake in TCP Holdings, the parent company of 20th Century-Fox. Rich, a secret partner with Denver Oilman Marvin Davis in the 1981 purchase of the film studio, sold his shares to Davis last week for a reported $116 million...
...Marvin Kalb, chief diplomatic correspondent for NBC News formerly diplomatic correspondent for CBS (also, a graduate of the Russian Area Program here at Harvard...
...responsible for the studio's long string of recent successes (Indi ana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Terms of Endearment, Flashdance), is becoming chairman of 20th Century-Fox. He replaces Alan Hirschfield, 47, who will stay on as a consultant. Marvin Davis, half owner of Fox, wooed Diller by giving him part ownership of the film studio, along with salary and bonuses that will doubtlessly exceed the $2.5 million he earned at Paramount...
...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...