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Having a talk show of one's own is great, unbeatable
fun, says Dick Cavett, "despite the fact that you vomit a
lot before air time."
"Do be warned, however, it is a man-killing grind and
would have worn out an ordinary man."
Cavett, a well known wit and television personality
gave an informal talk Friday night at Duke University
and amused the crowd with his quick and acerbic wit.
Cavett began by giving the audience pointers on
maintaining mass audience acceptance: don't do too
many things that require the attention of the audience.
"You reduce the audience in direct proportion to the
import of your material," Cavett said. "This is known as
the depressing' theory."
Television currently is experiencing a serious inner
conflict between commercialism and serious shows,
Cavett said. "No news flash has ever come on during a
commercial," he said.
Cavett told of a dream he once had in which Christ
returned to asth-and agreed to appear on his show.
During the show, Cavett interrupted Christ to say, "The
road to salvation is interesting, but now for a word from
the Charmin people..."
Cavett said he has had to keep tight reign on his sense
of the irreverent. When he had three famous astronauts
on his show during the sixties, he wanted to ask how they
went to the bathroom while they were in orbit. He didn't,
however. During another interview he asked Abba Eban
if he would let his daughter marry an Arab. Eban gave a
good answer he was glad that someone had finally
asked that question, Cavett said.
Cavett also said Lester Maddox ence walked off his
show because Cavett made reference to "the bigots who
voted for you." When asked to apologize, Cavett
reported that he said: "If 1 have called anyone a bigot
who isn't, I apologize."
Despite the fact that his intellect is much vaunted,
Cavett denied that he maintains a'constanf stream of
deep thoughts. He said he reads novels for the plot, goes
to movies to see the end and feels that "the essential
mystical value of sex is that it feels good."
Cavett struck a serious note when he stated that he
believed there should be no censorship of anything.
PBS, the network he currently works for, censors
nothing, but the local stations have the option of taking
out anything that they feel would offend their audiences.
Cavett said that he has had many battles with
networks about censorship, and often solved them by
using the word in question in the next few shows.
He told an anecdote about a taped show on which
John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared and sang a song
entitled, "Woman, the Nigger of the World." The show
was put on hold until it was needed, and somehow word
spread about the song. Nervous network officials called
him to a meeting and told him that the song had to be
taken out. Cavett replied, "Let's compromise and leave
the song in." The network said it would round up the
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nine black employees and ask them if the song was
offensive.
"Nine black employees? How about if I round up nine
blacks of my own who say the song isn't offensive? Or 18
mulattos?" Cavett replied.
Cavett was in typical form fielding questions from the
audience. Askd if he would "patronize a streetwalker,"
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part of the day, and temperatures
hovered in the 60s in brisk winds.
Fugh said the crowd was far smaller
than the one that gathers each spring for
the Cherry Blossom Parade. He
described it as "typical."
"Most people have been through it (the
crowds) so many times that they just stay
at home and watch it on TV," he said.
"It's not a particularly Catholic city like
Chicago."
But religion wasn't the only reason
many of the visitors turned out. Hal
Wright, a transit graphics specialist for
Metro, Washington's subway system,
said he still found the pope's visit
meaningful even though he is an agnostic.
"It's a once in a lifetime thing," he said.
"Of course, it probably meant a lot less to
me than to a devout Catholic.
"He stands for worldly peace and
worldly wisdom. Maybe some of it will
rub off on someone."
One elderly vendor trying to sell the
last of his posters, said he found the visit
of Pope John Paul II meaningful in a less
philosophical way.
"Business was just fine," he said.
"God's blessed me today."
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. WASHINGTON (AP) Smoking took a sudden jump in the
world last year, the Agriculture Department says, with increases
recorded largely in the poorer areas of the world.
World tobacco consumption reached a record 4.96 million
--tons in 1978. The increase, more than 3.5 percent, was the largest
-since 1973.
Most of that tobacco went into cigarettes 4.2 trillion of them,
100 billion more than the previous year. Smokers paid between
$85 billion and $100 billion for their cigarettes.
But while smoking is on the increase, it is occurring in different
places. Americans and those living in some other advanced
industrial nations smoke less than they used to because of high
taxes and warnings that cigarettes contribute to death and illness.
At the same time, the world's emerging countries are smoking
more, often American cigarettes exported under the
government's "Food for Peace" program. Other industrial
countries also are sending the poorer countries the cigarettes they
discourage their own citizens from smoking.
The Worldwatch Institute, a non-profit research organization
supportedby the Environmental Program of the United Nations,
described smoking in parts of the Third World this way.
Throughout most of Africa, vendors must break open packs
and sell cigarettes one by one.
"In isolated Sudanese towns, for example, one sees young men
with annual incomes equivalent to only a few hundred dollars
buying Benson and Hedges cigarettes at 10 cents apiecei"
Between 1969 and 1973, according to the Agriculture
Department, Sudan made about 639 million cigarettes a year and
imported 666 million. In 1977, it made 700 million and imported
900 million.
The story is similar in Asia and Latin America. Bangladesh,
one of the world's poorest countries, produced 10. 1 billion
cigarettes in 1974 and 1 1.65 billion in 1977.
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In countries where Wealth is growing more rapidly, the use of
cigarettes is making huge jumps. Venezuela manufactured 16.22
billion in 1974 and 20.3 billion in 1977.
In Japan, an estimated 35 million smokers went through a
pack a day each in 197,7. The Office of Smoking and Health
part of the U.S. Public Health Service says the Japanese are
increasing their daily consumption, despite an anti-smoking
drive that includes education programs, health warnings on
- packages and limites oft advertising.
The Office of Smoking and Health said Britain, Canada and
Sweden, in addition to the United States, have recorded declines.
Production of cigarettes has gone down in West Germany and
France, although French imports of American brands boosted
actual sales there in 19j78. . ' .
But the United States exported nearly 67 billion cigarettes in
1977, twice as many as it was selling in the early years of the
decade. Under the "Fqod for Peace" program, the Agriculture
Department said, up to $66 million worth of tobacco has been
shipped annually on esy terms over the past decade.
Among other industrial nations, West Germany exported 24
billion cigarettes in 19717, nearly four times what it sent abroad in
an average year between 1969 and 1973. Britain, the Netherlands
and Switzerland also showed important increases of exports in
the 1970s.
The Soviet Union s!ays it is planning a big increase in the
production of cigarette$. But the Soviet Embassy in Washington
said they will be for export not for home consumption.
In the Soviet Union, tobacco advertising is banned, smoking in
public places restricted and special efforts are made. to prevent
smoking by young pedple and by health officials.
But a recent study by the Soviet Union's Central Scientific
Institute showed only 63 percent of smokers believe they are
endangering their health, and 45 percent of the non-smokers saw
no harm in the habit.
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Police repel anti-nuke protesters
assaulted the Seabrook atomic power plant Sunday but w ere ; .-pulsed by state
troopers and National Guardsmen using fire hoses. Mace and a smoke
generator.
Waves of demonstrators twice assaulted the fence surrounding the
construction site and ripped down whole sections of it with ropes. Troopers and
Guardsmen surged through the gap, spraying Mace and driving the protesters
back along an access road.
But more than 1,000 of them quickly regrouped and marched a mile in the
rain to the plant entrance, where they were met by troopers and guardsmen
standing shoulder to shoulder behind the main gate. Fire hoses were turned on
them and a stream of smoke was unleashed.
But the chanting protesters, clad in rain slickers and plastic sheets, put their
backs against the chain-link gate and defied authorities to move them. Utility
workers then emptied two water trucks onto the crowd but were unable to
disperse them immediately.
Ten people were arrested Sunday, bringing to 19 the number arrested on
criminal tresspassing charges in the two-day attempt to occupy the Seabrook
site, iong a focal point for 'demonstrations against the use of nuclear power.
Castro to address United Nations
UNITED NATIONS (AP) Fidel Castro has made arrangements to travel
to New York this week to address the U.N. General Assembly, American and
U.N. officials said Sunday. It would be the Cuban president's first trip to the
United States in 19 years.
A State Department spokesman said Castro would address the current
Assembly session in his role as head of the non-aligned movement.
Woman says sniper was on 4bad trip'
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A sniper, whose wild shooting virtually shut
down San Francisco's busy Civic Center district for some 23 hours, claimed his
attack was the result of a "bad trip" on drugs, a woman who talked to him said
Sunday.
The sniper, who had taken a hostage, fired what police estimated was at least
50 shots of mostly .30-caliber carbine ammunition from the 16th floor of a
downtown building into surrounding streets. One man, who was a block away
from the building, was grazed by a slug but was not seriously hurt.
Japanese trade barriers falling
WASHINGTON (AP) Japan, which boasts the world's third largest
economy, is dismantling trade barriers that for years protected its industries
from foreign competition, says a congressional report released Sunday.
- Japanese, protectionism and Japan's, large trade surplus with. the United
States has been a major sore point in relations between the two countries in
recent years.
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