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Beats me why they couldn't just bundle the whole crew up and send them to Australia and get the scenery for free. The upshot is that everything on the station, called Drogheda, looks a bit wrong: wrong tools, wrong guns, wrong gates and so on. Believe it or not, they've even got singing shearers. Never mind, the Yanks won't notice. They like television to look cheap even when it's expensive...
...also hit by a potentially more costly problem last week: a $ 120 million libel suit filed by General William Westmoreland. The suit is the latest upshot of a controversial Jan. 23 documentary titled The Uncounted Enemy: A Viet Nam Deception. The 90-min. program charged that Westmoreland, while commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, joined in "a conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence" to misrepresent enemy troop strength during the year leading up to the January 1968 Tet offensive. In July, CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter, responding to criticism, admitted that the documentary, produced...
...seeking a return to traditional values. Back in 1977 Jimmy Carter evicted the White House barber from his basement quarters and replaced him with beauticians. But Ronald Reagan, said his Chief of Staff James Baker, is "a President who likes to have his hair cut by a barber." The upshot...
...document criticizing the U.S. for, among other things, "aggression," after a pair of U.S. Navy jets shot down two Libyan fighters over the Gulf of Sidra, Kirkpatrick lashed out with a letter accusing them of what she called "absurd and erroneous charges" and "fabrications and vile at tacks." The upshot was that countries planning to criticize the document decided to keep silent, for fear of appearing to side with the U.S. Says a former U.S. official: "She practices diplomacy by insult...
...suffering from an acute case of Anglophilia. After the 45-minute snarling match, Haig pushed for Kirkpatrick's resignation. She then further enraged Haig last week by taking her case directly to the President. The pair met for 40 minutes in the Oval Office on Memorial Day. The upshot: Haig and Kirkpatrick were told to stop bickering and get back to serious business...