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...major issues the ABC has focused on recently is the cable TV referendum that will be on the ballot tomorrow. The referendum asks voters to allow the city the option to own its own cable TV operations. ABC has come out against the referendum...
...ABC officials said that in this year's election, no candidate had really stressed the basic issues. Crane said he was surprised that none of the seven challengers for the nine seats on the council had questioned the incumbent councilors' records...
...interoffice memorandum. If he had known the facts, says Speakes, he could have kept the secret without telling an outright lie. "I could say, I'm sorry, I can't answer that question,' " he explains. "Or, 'I'll check on that.' " Says ABC Paris Bureau Chief Pierre Salinger, a former press secretary who was kept similarly in the dark about the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 by President Kennedy: "You can always make a deal with the press when it knows it is dealing with a national security situation." Argues syndicated Columnist Jody...
...absence of independent reporting from the scene of the battle, and with little detail coming from the Pentagon, reporters did what they could; the television networks used file footage, lively electronic graphics and innumerable maps of Grenada. ABC stood its Pentagon correspondent, Jack Smith, in front of a table model of the island with a pointer to explain what the Pentagon said was happening. On Wednesday, CBS Correspondent Sandy Gilmour chartered a plane in Barbados to capture the first television pictures not supplied by the Government. He taped the naval activity around Grenada from a distance until...
Even after some reporters were given a limited tour of Grenada by military officials on Thursday, news executives felt that they had got only what one of those reporters, ABC Correspondent Richard Threlkeld, called "a worm's-eye view, just a little segment of what was going on." Journalists who attempted to reach the island on their own by private boat, as TIME's Diederich and his companions had done earlier, were run off by U.S. destroyers and other naval vessels...