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Verification remains a major stumbling block. On NBC's Meet the Press last week, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger spoke of the need for on-site inspection of weapons-production facilities. "When you get in something serious in the way of agreement," he said, "you have to have the ability to go on each other's soil, to look in factories and look at gun sites...
...gymnastics last week. She wants to "mix with kids my own age" and "get on with my life," albeit at a pace that might exhaust less energetic souls. In addition to taking courses, the 4-ft. 9-in. sprite will continue her commercial endorsements and hopes to be an NBC commentator at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. "I had to stop my real education in the tenth grade," says Retton of her decision. She didn't want to look back later and "wish I went to college." Her first English paper was on her coach Bela Karolyi...
...sole survivor of the 1918 massacre of the Russian imperial family. But she died in 1984 without ever proving her claim, and her true identity remains uncertain. Now Anderson has again been the cause of controversy, this time over who would play her in a four-part nbc version of Anastasia shot in Vienna for broadcast this winter. According to Amy Irving, the producers picked her first. When she passed, the role was offered to Nastassja Kinski. Then, for reasons as inscrutable as Rasputin's stare, Kinski was out and Irving was back in. Why? Olivia de Havilland, who plays...
Crack has dominated media attention during the recent surge in drug coverage. A CBS report televised in early September, 48 Hours on Crack Street, drew the highest viewership of any network documentary in six years. NBC has aired more than 400 reports on drug abuse since the beginning of March; ABC two weeks ago highlighted drugs on all its news programs. Cocaine and crack have been front-page news in dailies ranging from city tabloids to the Wall Street Journal, which last week reported abuse was "rife" in rural Oklahoma. Crack has repeatedly reached Page One of the New York...
...critics of how the press has covered drug abuse would deny it is a significant problem. The debate is about matters of proportion and the proprieties of extensive, simultaneous media attention to an issue. Some journalists believe they are just responding to public concern. Says NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw: "The drug story reached critical mass. It kept building up and up in almost volcanic fashion. My own guess is that the population of users is much larger than the DEA is led to believe." Yet the debate caused some news executives to ponder whether they were having unintended impact. Acknowledged...