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...were seized, but the two men, who were said to have fired weapons at the police, simply vanished. Police first said they fired back; then they denied it. By week's end authorities had identified two of the bodies recovered from inside the house: Frank James Africa, 26, and Rhoda Harris War Africa, 30, mother of Birdie. The Philadelphia Daily News, citing unnamed police sources, insisted throughout the week that three Move members had been killed outside the house by police gunfire...
...moment, APR's main problem is that people confuse it with National Public Radio. As APR Manager Rhoda Marx notes, "NPR was the only game in town for so long that the press and the public are locked into thinking of it as a generic rather than a brand name." Created in January 1982 by five major public radio stations (WNYC of New York, WGUC of Cincinnati, KQED of San Francisco, KUSC of Los Angeles and Minnesota Public Radio), APR has never produced its own shows, like NPR, but has acquired, distributed and marketed cultural programming to public radio...
...Maaare! as Rhoda undoubtedly would have wailed with a mixture of pain, sympathy and gentle reproach. Mary Tyler Moore, 46, who chilled the same hearts in Ordinary People that she warmed on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has joined the roster of celebrities (Johnny Cash, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Liza Minnelli) who have checked into the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., for help with an alcohol problem. Moore, a diabetic since 1968, did so on the advice of doctors, who suggested that although she is not a heavy drinker she ought to halt even social drinking, which...
...Enterprises, once a trend setter with such sitcoms as The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda, has largely turned its attention to dramas like Hill Street Blues. Garry Marshall, the creator of Happy Days and Mork & Mindy, has forsaken TV for feature films...
Consumers Union's victory has cost several hundred thousand dollars in legal fees. Even so, if the Consumers Union decision helps weed out libel actions of little merit, the public interest will have been served. Said Consumers Union Executive Director Rhoda Karpatkin: "Our determination to go to the wall on this case rather than settle it anywhere along the way has been vindicated...