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Chernenko sounded a conciliatory note from Moscow, calling for a return to the days of detente and speculating that progress on arms control could lead to "broad possibilities for cooperation" in other fields. In a series of answers to written questions submitted by NBC News, the Kremlin leader conspicuously refrained from any criticism of the Reagan Administration, a staple of most of his previous East-West statements. Noting the milder tone of recent U.S. rhetoric, Chernenko declared, "If the statements that are being made lately hi Washington with regard to the desire to seek solutions to problems of arms limitation...
...speech to the Politburo last week, Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko called for an increase in his country's defense capability. Then, in answers to written questions submitted by NBC News Correspondent Marvin Kalb, Chernenko suddenly appeared more conciliatory. If Washington is sincere about arms-limitation talks, he said, "we could, at last, start moving toward more normal relations between our two countries...
...part NBC movie is about to take viewers through the fascinating mystery. With meticulous direction by David Greene (Friendly Fire) and a well-chosen cast headed by Gary Cole as MacDonald and Karl Maiden as his avenging inlaw, the four-hour drama is absorbing from beginning to end. But this time around, the long voyage of discovery has acquired some dubious shortcuts...
...News Anchor Dan Rather, the presidential election was officially over at 8 p.m. E.S.T. when little more than 1% of the votes had been tallied. At ABC, which had vowed in advance to practice "good citizenship" and restraint, Peter Jennings announced a Reagan victory 13 minutes after Rather. NBC, which transformed the rules of political reporting four years ago by proclaiming Reagan's victory over Jimmy Carter while much of the country was still voting, responded to critics by delaying Tom Brokaw's victory decree until 8:30 p.m. At that hour, voting remained in progress...
...report promptly whatever they knew about election trends. "If we have the information, we should put it on the air," said Lane Venardos, executive producer of the CBS Evening News. Yet exit polls, perhaps as much as debates and campaign commercials, have thrust TV into the political process. NBC'S early call in 1980 was said to have discouraged voting and thus affected the outcome of close races on the West Coast. This year a House subcommittee grilled TV executives about the practice, and both the House and the Senate passed nonbinding resolutions of disapproval...