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...picture school closings and factory layoffs. Sauter likes to talk about capturing the big emotional "moments." He chewed his staff out when it failed to show a picture of Nancy Reagan dabbing a tear from her eye at a memorial service for servicemen and -women killed in a plane crash in Gander, Newfoundland. Tears often seem to preoccupy CBS. The camera zeros in on someone in church crying, unable to escape this invasion of privacy. Sauter is a strong believer in "letting emotions exhibit themselves" and says that he relies on the "gracefulness" and caution of his staff to keep...
WORLD: Managua downs a contra cargo plane, and a captured American sings...
...news on this day, however, did not come from the box. A light plane that left Cuba for Taos a week before had disappeared. Also, Cuba had just voted, 84 to 68, to approve Sunday liquor sales. "Somebody was saying that you used to be able to buy enough on Saturday to carry you through," said Betty Jane, "and he doesn't see why they still can't do it that way." She added, "But the most exciting thing in the paper will be that if you won a blue ribbon at the county fair, your name will...
...their Marxist-oriented government, there on Nicaraguan TV screens was living proof of their allegations: a burly, rugged-looking, redheaded American named Eugene Hasenfus. The prisoner looked the part he played. Hasenfus, 45, a gung-ho patriot and soldier of fortune, had been captured after parachuting from a U.S. plane that was shot down by Nicaraguan soldiers while on a mission to deliver arms to contra rebels in southern Nicaragua. Three other men, two Americans and a Nicaraguan, were killed in the crash...
After making a ten-minute statement, Hasenfus was abruptly led away without answering reporters' questions. Still, his dramatic story only increased the volume of official denials that the U.S. Government had any connection whatsoever with the downed supply plane--or with Hasenfus. But Hasenfus' allegations posed disturbing questions about the Administration's relationship with private organizations that have reportedly been funding supplies for the contra rebels since Congress cut off aid in 1984. In the absence of a satisfactory response from the Administration, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week said it would subpoena testimony from those involved, including...