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...DEADLY SILENCE (ABC, April 16, 9 p.m. EDT). One of the most tragic consequences of child abuse is recounted in this docudrama about a Long Island, N.Y., teenager who hired a friend to kill the father who had molested her for years...
...teach-in" at the Kennedy School of Government. Alumni will describe the events of the '69 strike and their effect on the students and the rest of the Harvard community. Alumni will also play an audio tape of the police break-in of University Hall narrated by ABC-news correspondent Chris Wallace '69. Leonard Lehrman will perform the SDI Waltz...
...studios in the '30s used to create vehicles for their contract stars. Chung has been promised the anchor job on a soon to be reconstituted version of West 57th, CBS's low-rated magazine show. Sawyer will co-anchor, with Sam Donaldson, a new prime-time news hour on ABC, scheduled to debut in August. Williams will be one of several co-anchors of a new NBC prime-time news offering, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, also planned for a summer premiere...
However expensive they become, the star wars seem sure to continue. ABC, which recently hired not only Sawyer but also NBC correspondent Chris Wallace, has been dubbed the hot network for its aggressive talent raids. NBC, having lost both Wallace and Chung, is hurting. Staff morale is low, and some warn that the network's tightfisted attitude will doom it to the news-ratings cellar. Gartner insists that NBC is not opposed to paying high salaries to the right people but argues, almost quaintly, that by rejecting Chung's money demands, the network cast a vote for old-fashioned news...
...grabs Connie Chung away from NBC after losing Diane Sawyer to ABC. Prime time is now the battleground, and the competition for high-priced talent is intensifying...