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By the end of the week, however, Hewitt and Wallace were no longer talking, after a published report suggested that CBS lawyers may have had legitimate cause for concern. According to the Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes made a number of unusual arrangements with the tobacco-industry source--later revealed...
The Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of Westinghouse Inc. and CBS, creating the nation's largest broadcaster. "The merger helps CBS because it gives them a large number of new affiliates, which should bolster them as a network" says senior media writer Richard Zoglin. (Westinghouse/CBS owns 16 TV stations...
On occasion, Dole has drawn that line, as he did Sept. 8, when he appeared before the Christian Coalition's annual "Road to Victory" convention. Phil Gramm had spoken earlier and challenged the audience to demand that Dole, like Gramm, sign a pledge promising to support an antiabortion plank in...
The story behind that story is instructive. Dole's campaign staff had been alerted to Gramm's stunt, and urged Dole to comply. "What they wanted," says a friend of Dole's, "is for Bob to have said something like 'I've been waiting to sign this pledge before friends...
The ethnic makeup of that march will be worth keeping an eye on. Promise No. 6 is the pledge to reach "beyond any racial and denominational barriers to demonstrate the power of biblical unity." William Martin, a Rice University sociologist who specializes in modern revival movements, suggests that this multiracialism...