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Reagan arrived at the Century Plaza Hotel on a Tuesday. Traffic was stalled for several blocks as his 20-vehicle motorcade pulled up the Avenue of the Stars and into the hotel driveway, just opposite the ABC Entertainment Complex...
...ABC's This Week with David Brinkley show last week, Meese blasted the Supreme Court's 1966 Miranda ruling, which requires police to advise criminal suspects of their rights against selfincrimination. He has also attacked the court's recent rulings on church-state conflicts, telling the Washington Post that the court has confused "freedom of religion and hostility toward religion." This fall the Justice Department will go before the court to argue that a student religious group in a Williamsport, Pa., high school should be permitted to meet during a school-sanctioned activities period...
...sold three scripts: "If you write five a year--I get more offers than that--you can make close to $700,000." If you are at the top of the profession, you can get $850,000 for a single unused screenplay, as William Goldman reportedly did from ABC Motion Pictures...
...insists that any settlement between Israel and its neighbors must come from an international conference involving all front-line Arab states, the Soviet Union and the U.S., a gathering that Washington and Jerusalem adamantly oppose. In short, said National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane last week in an interview with ABC News, on most Middle East issues there remains "considerable disagreement" between the U.S. and Syria...
...Lebanese detainees, leaving about 460 still awaiting release from Atlit prison. Nor did the Israelis enjoy watching the U.S. becoming indebted to Assad, whom they regard as Jerusalem's most dangerous enemy. Finally, Israel suffered in U.S. public opinion, at least early in the crisis. A Washington Post-ABC News poll taken as the hostages were being released showed that one-third of the sample agreed with the assertion that "the U.S. should reduce its ties to Israel in order to lessen the acts of terrorism against Americans in the Middle East." The same poll, however, showed that the percentage...