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MARILYN BERGER, 41, joined NBC last winter after a decade as a diplomatic reporter for Newsday and later the Washington Post, and last summer became the network's senior White House correspondent. The transition to television has not been easy. "I'm a loner, and TV is very much a group art, with a camera crew and a producer," says Brooklyn-born Berger. She dislikes being "pinned at the White House" for staged events when she could be out developing stories. Says she: "If I had the chance, I'd like to have my own half-hour...
...Similar proceedings have cost Merrill Lynch $ 1.9 million and Bank of America more than $3 million. Northwest Airlines is fighting a court decision ordering it to pay compensation to some 3000 stewardesses. The cost could run to $40 million. Current targets of such suits include Reader's Digest, Newsday, Saks Fifth Avenue and nine high-priced Manhattan restaurants that refuse to hire women as waitresses. One restaurant that has already knuckled under: New York's venerable "21," which recently paid damages and hired its first women to wait on tables...
...group, came to that conclusion within days after the killing of Bolles, who was also a member. So far, they have raised some $20,000 for the venture (the goal: $50,000). They have chosen as their leader Robert Greene, whose investigative task forces at Long Island's Newsday have won two Pulitzer Prizes. The IRE volunteers plan to publish the results of the investigation simultaneously in their 14 papers next January...
Good ones are proving they can do as well as men-or better. Newsday's Jane Gross, 28, scooped the competition by slogging through court records to come up with a copy of Nets Forward Julius Erving's $1.9 million contract...
...offering them a chance to fight in one just war for Black Africa," CORE Chairman Roy Innis told Newsday reporters. "I know the aggressive nature of the Soviets. They are grabby and pushy ... We are not mercenaries. We are Africans abroad. The Cubans, the Russians, the South Africans, the CIA-they are the mercenaries." Innis denied that his recruiting drive was being sponsored by the CIA, but the newspaper quoted unnamed intelligence sources as saying that, in fact, it was. Innis has ties with Uganda's President Idi Amin, who is opposed to the M.P.L.A., and he may also...