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...Middle East middlemen in the arms deal, Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and Iranian representative Manucher Ghorbanifar, said on ABC-TV's "20-20" program that North apparently controlled Swiss bank accounts through which up to $35 million was deposited in the secret Iran weapons transactions that he coordinated...
...ABC television network, your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as of 12/20/86 -- Jimmy Breslin." So read the three-line advertisement on the front page of the New York Times last week. Only eight weeks after the premiere of his critically acclaimed late-night talk show, Jimmy Breslin's People, the feisty Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist became, as he put it, "the first person in America to fire a network." Breslin had been miffed that abc aired his show at odd hours, as late as 2 a.m. in some markets, including his hometown of New York City...
Appearing on both ABC and NBC morningtelevision programs, he said he was "horrified" tolearn that funds from the Iranian operation wentto the Contras. But he said he did not think thepresident's competence was at issue in thecontroversy
...mistake," and was promptly accused by Chief of Staff Donald Regan of giving "lousy advice." The President and his Secretary of State, George Shultz, apparently unwilling to settle anything face to face, took to exchanging messages by way of television. And by the end of the week an ABC News poll showed not only that 59% of the public disbelieved Reagan's answers but that his overall approval rating had fallen 10 points in the past two months, to 57%, the lowest since May 1985 in the wake of his visit to West Germany's Bitburg Cemetery...
This unique experiment in reality programming was conceived by London Weekend Television, which staged a mock trial of Richard III for British TV in 1984. Looking for another historical crime to "try" on TV, the producers turned to the Kennedy assassination. Unlike earlier fictional treatments like the 1977 ABC movie The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, the program has no script and (except for extras) uses no actors. Two prominent attorneys were enlisted to argue the case. For the prosecution: Vincent Bugliosi, 52, the former Los , Angeles deputy district attorney who prosecuted Charles Manson. For the defense: Gerry Spence...