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...boyish Tom Brokaw, 43, who at present is a coanchor. At ABC, which has had a three-cornered format, executives are expected to announce this week that elegant, Canada-born Peter Jennings, 45, will be the central figure of a revamped one-anchor show. Contends Van Gordon Sauter, president of CBS News: "A one-anchor format provides continuity, more time for stories and less fragmentation of viewers' attention...
...study of the show, inspired by a TV Guide article last May calling the program "a smear," was protected by a business or journalistic privilege of confidentiality. The study was conducted by CBS News Senior Executive Producer Burton Benjamin and was summarized by CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter in a memorandum made public in July. Drawing on Benjamin's study, Sauter conceded that the program had deviated from certain CBS News practices, but stood by its substance as essentially accurate. Westmoreland's lawyers, contending that Sauter's statement had constituted a further libel, sought the complete...
When CBS duly surrendered the study last week, Westmoreland's lawyers termed the document "devastating," while CBS shrugged it off as consistent with the original Sauter memo. "They were hoping to find a smoking gun," said Sauter. "There isn't even the smell of cordite...
Neighborhood groups had hoped that the state board would establish an expansion overflow committee composed of equal numbers of hospital officials and area residents that the council "felt that it wouldn't he appropriate to give the area group vote power," council member Stephen Sauter said yesterday...
...suing, win or lose, Westmoreland will probably force CBS to hand over the internal probe of the documentary ordered by Sauter. But he may also open himself to tough questions about his years in Viet Nam. Observes renowned First Amendment Lawyer James Goodale: "The proceedings will probably be long, difficult and expensive for both sides...