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...startling twelve-point proposal was conveyed first to Archbishop Arturo Rivera Damas of San Salvador, who passed it on to the government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte. After nine years of refusing to lay down their arms, the guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front last week declared their willingness to participate in El Salvador's presidential balloting and abide by the results, win or lose. The F.M.L.N. asked that the March 19 polling be postponed until Sept. 15 so the rebels would have more time to rally supporters. The group, which tried to sabotage the last five national...
Morton Downey Jr. has turned foul temper into a TV style. Geraldo Rivera continues to test the bounds of tawdry sensationalism. Phil, Oprah and Sally Jessy race to outdo one another in pursuit of the odd, the aberrant and the kinky. But something even more bizarre and audacious is about to appear on the talk-show scene. Make way for . . . the nice guys...
...political thriller Favorite Son sparked a minor furor with suggestive scenes of bondage and other kinky sex. Geraldo Rivera put a few noses out of joint with his grisly NBC special on satanic cults. Male strippers flaunted their pecs and pelvises in the ABC movie Ladykillers, while NBC's The F.B.I. Murders culminated in perhaps the longest and bloodiest shoot-out in TV history. Even the classy ABC mini-series War and Remembrance turned off some viewers with its graphic scenes of Nazi atrocities...
...members of racist skinhead gangs active in 21 states. Lately they have become more visible on the West Coast, possibly because of recruiting efforts by the Aryan Youth Movement, a neo-Nazi group whose leader, John Metzger, was among those involved in the brawl on the Geraldo Rivera show. Their menace may be spreading. Warns David Lowe, an associate director of the A.D.L.: "There have been skinhead activities in areas where racist activities have never made inroads before. They are young kids, and they are very mobile...
...retrospectives on Kennedy on the anniversary of his death have lent themselves to gross sensationalism. One television movie, Kennedy, starring Martin Sheen, used as a backdrop to its logo, a red, white, and blue banner splattered with blood Geraldo Rivera has joined the fray with another of his infamous television specials, "On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald...