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...deal that he wrote his paper's editorial denouncing it. "They missed the news," says Squires. "We're in the news business and the news is 'Where is Abbas?' " (Though the U.S. Government refused to speculate, Italian authorities last week said the terrorist was in Tunisia and an extradition request has been made...
...News President Lawrence Grossman says there was no debate within the network over whether to agree to Abbas' secrecy request. "It's critical that people know about terrorist leaders and what their plans are and what they are like," says Grossman. According to Correspondent Henry Champ, it took two months for NBC to make contact with Abbas and secure his consent; other than asking that his location not be revealed, Abbas set no conditions for the interview, which took place two weeks...
...unusual entrance because he had no other way of getting on stage. A rugby accident in high school left him paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a wheelchair to get around. Without a special elevator, Wallace needed his friends to hoist him onto the stage. At his request, the University began plans to install a lift, but Wallace was "fed up" waiting for it and quit the group before it was built...
...think that the U.S. told the public about potential dangers either. An earlier government report from Brookhaven National Laboratories, which was kept secret until a Freedom of Information Act request was filed, concluded that a major accident at a nuclear reactor slightly larger than TMI could "create a disaster area the size of Pennsylvania and could kill 45,000 people...
Though Dole supported the resolution, he was not as pleased. He had held several meetings with Budget Director James Miller and top Senate Republicans to work out a package closer to Reagan's request. He conducted transpacific negotiations with Chief of Staff Donald Regan, who was traveling with the President in the Far East. At one point Dole waved a document he identified as a House budget proposal (it was actually a month-old working paper outlining one option). Declaring that the proposal recommended no major revenue increases, Dole called it a "smoking gun" because it proved that House Democrats...