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...Kurt Andersen. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof /Moscow and Johanna McGeary/ Washington, with other bureaus
DIED. Jon-Erik Hexum, 26, actor and model who was starring in the new TV series Cover Up until he shot himself in the temple two weeks ago with a blank-loaded .44-cal. Magnum pistol while playing "Russian roulette"; of brain damage; in San Francisco. After a week's struggle to save his life, doctors pronounced him brain dead, and his heart, kidneys and corneas were used for transplants. The show will go on; a search for Hexum's replacement has already started...
HOSPITALIZED. Jon-Erik Hexum, 26, hunky TV actor; after he accidentally shot himself in the temple with a blank from a prop pistol during filming of his new series Cover Up; in Los Angeles...
...other side of the world, attitudes about the Gromyko-Reagan meeting were less upbeat. Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof was startled by a question put to him as he went about his reporting last week. "A middle-aged Muscovite asked me if it was true that Reagan 'is like Hitler.' When I told her that this image was completely erroneous, she replied, 'But that is what our television commentators tell us.' " For the cover image, Photographer Brian Alpert took a rare picture of Gromyko inside the Soviet mission in New York City, a building that...
Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Richard Homik/Boston