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Simon said he made a mistake last week by refusing to specify how he planned to accomplish his domestic spending program during an NBC News-sponsored debate among the presidential candidates. "I made a mistake to have ducked the question. I could have started answering it, and then Tom Brokaw could have cut me off," he said...
...hard-nosed questioning by Kalb, a veteranreporter who was formerly NBC News's chiefdiplomatic correspondent, has touched on a widevariety of substantive policy issues. Yesterday hepushed Simon on his plans for the economy; lastweek he hammered away at Gov. Michael S. Dukakis(D-Mass.) on the issue of his inexperience withforeign policy...
Gorbachev, in an NBC interview earlier this week that was broadcast in the United States and the Soviet Union, also offered an optimistic assessment for a strategic arms accord next year...
...NBC plugged the show as the first-ever confrontation on the same stage between candidates of the two major parties, whetting appetites over the prospect that the candidates would be questioning each other. Did this mean there would be a Tuesday Night Main Event of Robertson vs. Jackson, with Dukakis vs. DuPont, Simon vs. Dole and Gephardt vs. Bush on the undercard...
...winner was NBC's galloping "news correspondent" Tom Brokaw, fresh from his exclusive prime-time pow-wow with Gorby in Moscow. He still has trouble pronouncing words that begin with the letter "L", but he was in charge throughout with the help of the same bell that rings when letters are turned on Wheel of Fortune. Candidates knew their minute was up when a soft electronic bell was cued, much like Johnny Carson knows he has to break to a commercial when the pianist breaks into arpeggios...