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...sentence or two, as if this alone, of all he said, deserved hearing. The other networks were equally condescending. What television is uniquely fitted to do -- show the candidate speaking for himself -- television disdained doing. Television calls these snippets sound bites, and on all three networks they are getting shorter and shorter: many are just six or seven words. Note how often the person in the news is not even allowed to finish a sentence, but the reporter always gets to finish...
Only a few weeks ago, the foundation for a summit seemed to have been firmly established. The U.S. and the Soviet Union had agreed in principle on a plan to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear forces from Europe. This INF agreement, which would also include the elimination of shorter-range missiles, was to form the basis for a third meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev. But now the Soviets seem to be stalling. The Kremlin postponed a Washington meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze that had been expected to take place last week. "The Soviet...
...retain 100 warheads on missiles located elsewhere. The U.S. is now pushing for a "global zero" plan that would eliminate all such weapons. The Soviets have made conflicting noises about whether they might agree to this, but their official position is that they will not. Another stumbling block involves shorter-range missiles. The Soviets insist that 72 old Pershing 1A missiles in West Germany must be dismantled as part of a deal. While the missiles belong to the West Germans, their nuclear warheads belong to the U.S. American officials say eliminating these systems would cause a political uproar in Bonn...
...Garcia and Reporter-Researcher David Thigpen, the People beat provides unusual private glimpses of the most public figures. Thigpen has interviewed a disparate constellation of celebrities, from ex-President Jimmy Carter ("He was a lot shorter than I expected") to Basketball Great Julius Erving ("He wasn't"). Garcia's favorites have included Actress Daryl Hannah ("very sweet and unpretentious") and Singer-Songwriter Sting ("amazingly thoughtful for a rock star...
...Western alliance had been waiting for the decision. After a lengthy and bitter debate that almost split Chancellor Helmut Kohl's ruling conservative coalition, West Germany last week finally closed ranks with its allies and endorsed Mikhail Gorbachev's "double-zero" proposal to eliminate both long- and shorter-range intermediate nuclear forces from Europe. Bonn's decision will permit NATO Foreign Ministers, meeting this week in Reykjavik, to give U.S. arms negotiators an unambiguous go-ahead for an INF agreement with the Soviets. Suddenly, the much-discussed superpower summit this fall -- at which Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan would sign...