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A8 fwMteald Thwnrioy Jung 14 HM ABC News Closeup puts spotlight on Syria's rise TODAY By Rick Sherwood qpciil We FM-HcraM The most interesting project to come to prime-time tonight is the ABC News Closeup at 7 and Peace The Rise of Syria" The program explores the influence and importance of the Middle Eastern nation in local and world politics and tries to determine its intentions Particular attention is paid to its role in the continuing strife in Lebanon and the 190S bombing of US Marine headquarters plus its antagonistic position regarding Arab peace with IsraeL An exclusive interview with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad is included Peter Jennings anchors the one-hour report which should shed some light on the highly volatile situation Highlights Simon" CBS at In this rerun the setting is San Diego in a story about an attempt to find a crooked cop who murdered two fellow officers and framed an undercover cop and his wife Jameson Parker Gerald McRaney ABC at A report on charges leveled against the owner and employees of a Manhattan Beach Calif nursery school where more than 125 children are alleged to have been sexually abused over a 10-year period The ramifications of the case and the possibility that it is not an isolated incident are examined Hugh Downs hosts Series umplings PL" CBS at 7: Magnum is working (and playing) in Detroit while TC gets involved in a potentially disfiguring no-holds-barred fighting contest in a dingy bar Roger Modey stars Repeat Street NBC at 9: There's tension on the Hill when another officer is killed while investigating corruption in the former precinct Henry thinks Furillo resents his blossoming affair with Fay Daniel Travanti stars Late night NBC at 11:30: Bill Cosby and Arnold Schwarzenegger guest Johnny Carson hosts Cable calls Baseball WTBS at 0:30: Cincinnati at Atlanta Live Golf ESPN at 7: First-round play in the UK Open taped 'earlier in the day in New York Baseball WOR at 7:30: New York Mets at St Louis Live USA at 10: Telly Savalas stars a well-known car thief charged with murder when a corpse is found in the trunk of a car be stole Premium picks Cinemax at 8: A finely crafted sensitive story of two Australian teens growing up in suburban Sydney trying to make it through high school and adolescence Bruce Beresford directed the fine fresh and funny film Rated Splash! Jimmy Evans 7 knows how to create a water sports park in his own June days in Hampton Va All it takes is several squares of front yard for his friends and himself during these sweltering mid- linoleum a garden hose and a running jump Turning 40 was really crushing for practical joker WBMG planning to power up PEOPLE youngest heart transplant patient was i yesterday from stable to satisfactory and the 4-year-old Colorado boy munched cornflakes and pedaled a stationary tricycle morning he had frosted cornflakes and will be working out in physical therapy" Mid Richard Zucker a spokesman for Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York heart patients use stationary bicycles but in this case JP is using a The donor John Nathan Ford also 4 of Harlem died Friday after falling two days earlier from a sixth-floor tenement window The boy's father Walter Burns 44 said yesterday the decision to donate the heart has helped the family in its grief was glad because I'd been to see the kid (John) and doctors told me be had no Burns Hid now another little guy who didn't have much of a chance may make The new transmitter costs well over 1 million Broome uld The transmitter is scheduled to be in operation by Sept 24 the date when WBMG and CBS premier fall programming WBMG owned by Park Communi-' cations will place the transmitter in a new building adjacent to its office on Red Mountain WBMG increased the height of its television tower last August to 2049 feet above sea level Birmingham television station WBMG (Channel 42) plans to add a new transmitter that will nearly double the strength of its signal Hoyle Broome station manager said the new RCA 120 kilowatt transmitter will increase the strength from 1170000 watts to 2163000 watts Broome Hid the extra power will carry the signal to a larger area He Hid reception should improve for those already getting Channel 42 the bear" Vaught said think just about everybody's sympathy lies with the Still he said as a health officer be has no recourse but to have the bear destroyed The bear's owner could seek an injunction to stop the department's plan for killing the pet bear Heart transplant child improving The condition of JP Lovette the THURSDAY MORNING Reaching the age of 40 can he especially traumatic for practical jokers if they have buddies with long memories who want to get even When former Hugo Minn Mayor Marvin LaValle reached the milestone recently friends drove his car to a salvage yard had it crushed and returned the block of metal to LaValle's farm He discovered his beloved 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass when he came in from the Helds 40th Marv your youth your car are said an attached sign Darrell Graager one of friends said he and a few others were simply repaying their good buddy When Joha Kostach turned 40 LaValle dug a grave in Kostucfa's yard and lowered a coffin He staged another mock funeral when George Mima turned 40 but embellished it by pouring manure over the coffin and transplanting a dead tree in the yard of Miron's neighbor Kostuch said ves 1 guess I do remember something about lowering a coffin and LaValle said yesterday with a hesitant laugh LaValle mayor of Hugo from 1070 through 1992 also has stolen a door from Kostuch's car and used a tractor to dump snow in front of doorways Kostuch said Granger was the first of the group of friends to turn 40 six years ago LaValle took out a newspaper ad announcing the birthday and asking that people phone Granger with greetings get a thing done that day but I only wish that was the only thing ever pulled on Granger Mia car was really rusted out and Marvin was only using it in the fields As bad as that car was Marvin was really attached to it We really love ol' Marv It was too good to pass said Granger But LaValle says the pranks haven't ended even though he was the last of the group to turn 40 me all sleeping with one eye Beer-drinking bear on death row The Fort Worth Texas health department yesterday demanded the head of Puppy the Bear who bit a woman with whom he had shared a few beers law requires that wild animals that bite a human no matter why they bite a human be killed and their beads be examined for rabies" Charles Vanght of the health department said Puppy the pet bear bit Dorothy Abehart of nearby Arlington on the right hand and arm Sunday night A police report indicated Mrs Airehart had had five beers that night and had given some beer to the bear The woman was in good condition yesterday sympathy lies with We Will NARROW your WIDE ties 500 minimum 3 ties Try this trick Brins ui your too wide tin We will narrow them to a finhion-abie width You take home new tiea at a fraction of the cast Harwell Upper Lent Bnnkmaad VUkft Op till SM THURSDAY AFTERNOON Dial 252-1411 For Want Ads 12 mm qiUUo THURSDAY EVENING 750ml THURSDAY'S MOVIES EVENING 7-00 WGN (1970) George Scott Karl Malden The colorful and controversial General George Patton launches stormy military campaigns from Europe to North Africa during World War MO Boy Named Charlie (1969) Animated USA "Legend Of Frenchie King" (1971) Brigitte Bardot Claudia Cardinal A woman dons the guise of a legendary bandit and starts a crime wave in the American West SHOW "Psycho 0" (1963) Anthony Perkins Meg Tdy IT IA 4W 0:00 QB Vk "A Place For Lovers" (1969) Faye Dunaway Marcello Mastroianni A terminally I woman tries to conceal her fata from her lover but he finds out and insists upon hospitalizing her 10:30 MO "The Sting IT (1983) Jackie Gleason Mac Davis 'PG SHOW Trek The Wrath Of Khan" (1962) WiKam Shatner Kcardo Montalban PG' 11:00 Vk "Little (1971) EKottGoukL Marcia Rodd Based on the play by Jules Feiffer A man marries the girl who saved him from muggers "The Lives Of A Bengal (1935) Gary Cooper Franchot Tone England's Indian-based Lancers win al their battles no matter what the odds 11:30 WGN Vt Of The Red (1948) John Wayne Gig Young An adventurous sea captain and a ruthless trader become involved with a beautiful young woman 11:35 W1U The Wind" (1960) Spencer Tracy Frednc March Clarence Dar-row and William Jennings Bryan wage a courtroom battle over the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution 11:40 Sift Of Love: A Christmas (1983) Lee Remick Angela Lansbury A middle-age woman faces the holidays depressed over personal problems until her dreams which recal the simpler times of her youth ift her spirits 12:15 MO Dark Crystal" (1982) Puppets -PG' 12:30 SHOW "Mistress Pamela" (1973) Julian Barnes Dudley Foster 'R 1:00 (9 Mo And My GaT' (1942) Judy Garland Gene KeHy The success of two vaude-viMans is interrupted by World War 1:45 MO Vfc "Friday The 13th Part IIP (1982) Dana KimmeL Paul Kratka TY 2:00 WOR Vi (1940) Marlene Dietrich John Wayne A Navy man ie forced to choose between his career and the woman ha loves 2:05 SHOW "Psycho (1983) Anthony Perkins Meg Tlly IT 3:00 WGN Vi (1941) Dana Andrews Walter Brennan To prevent him from revealing his hiding place an escaped murderer holds a young man captive USA V7he Early Bird" 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