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...stormy response from the Kremlin seemed bound to strike an unjustifiably apocalyptic chord among Americans as they digested the fictional consequences of a nuclear holocaust in ABC-TV's The Day After (see NATION).* For his part, President Reagan replied from his Santa Barbara ranch on Thanksgiving Day that "we can only be dismayed," adding that the Andropov declaration was "at sharp variance with the stated wish of the Soviet Union that an [INF] agreement be negotiated...
Good question, indeed. The dilemma of how best to avoid such horror was discussed passionately in homes, classrooms and church basements from coast to coast last week after an astonishing 100 million Americans watched ABC's version of the nukemare.* Against the tense backdrop of U.S. missile deployments in Western Europe and the Soviet walkout at the Geneva arms talks, The Day After sharpened the debate between opponents and supporters of the Reagan Administration's weapons policies. On a wider, more superficial level, the movie brought home the terror of nuclear devastation to millions of Americans too young...
While Angie and Jessie of ABC-TV's "All My Children" finally found their baby yesterday after weeks of searching, their creator spoke about television and social change at Harvard...
...month later, ABC News reported that something had happened, and the previously silent State Department, Pentagon and CIA acknowledged that a nuclear bomb had indeed been detected. But the White House, after forming a task force to cope with a public outcry, officially concluded that the Vela Satellite, after correctly identifying 41 nuclear explosions between 1969 and 1979, had made an error on its 42nd detection. British scientists reported that at the U.S. National Technical and Information Services, which records date on nuclear explosions, ordinary information for the period in question was missing...
...actors can become politicians, then why can't politicians become actors? The answer is they do it all the time, but they are doing it for real on ABC's The Crisis Game. The program is airing in four segments this week as a follow-up to The Day After, the ABC film on the consequences of a nuclear exchange. Two weeks ago the network taped a strategic war game in which onetime officials and politicians role-play an unrehearsed version of how both sides might handle a superpower showdown. Former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie...