Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, March 23, 1991 TAG: 9103230312
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"I've always been in the old-boy network, haven't I?" said Stahl, 49. Don Hewitt, the show's executive producer, announced Stahl's new position Thursday. She has moderated CBS's Sunday news show "Face the Nation" since 1983.
She joins Hewitt, Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Ed Bradley and Steve Kroft as co-editors of the weekly newsmagazine show. She is replacing Harry Reasoner, who will assume the role of editor emeritus at the end of this season.
Stahl joined CBS News in 1972 as a Washington-based reporter. She covered the events surrounding the Watergate break-in and subsequent Senate hearings. She was Washington co-anchor of "CBS Morning News" from 1977 to 1978.
Reasoner's successor was to have been correspondent Meredith Vieira, but she is leaving "60 Minutes" at the end of the season to have her second child.
Eric Ober, president of CBS News, said Vieira will be assigned to another position at CBS News following her return to work.
\ Burt Lancaster is in good spirits and doing well in his recovery nearly four months after a paralyzing stroke, his wife said Friday.
"He's just fine," Susan Scherer Lancaster said.
The 77-year-old film star was visiting a friend in Los Alamitos on Nov. 30 when he was stricken with a stroke. He was briefly left paralyzed on his right side and unable to speak.
Lancaster has been undergoing therapy and doctors are optimistic he will fully recover.
Lancaster has starred in more than 60 motion pictures, including "Elmer Gantry," for which he won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the fiery evangelist.
\ Jimmy Carter was awarded the 1991 Physicians for Social Responsibility Award for his "commitment to peace and human dignity."
In a ceremony Thursday night in Atlanta, Dr. Daniel Young, PSR president, praised Carter's post-presidential agenda.
"Mr. Carter has maintained as a private citizen his original commitment to peace, social justice, nuclear disarmament and to many other important world issues," Young said.
Carter accepted the award on behalf of all the people who work with him at the Carter Center.
\ Johnny Cash delivered the eulogy in Nashville for seven musicians in singer Reba McEntire's band who died in a plane crash last weekend.
"Every one of these worked with the top name doing the thing they loved and performing for more people than they ever imagined," Cash said.
The seven musicians and McEntire's road manager, along with two pilots, died early Saturday when their private plane crashed in near San Diego.
McEntire, who was not aboard the plane, had asked Cash to deliver a eulogy. She sat with about 100 members of the victims' families.
Country music performers who paid their respects at the hour-long tribute Wednesday included the Judds, Ricky Skaggs, Larry Gatlin, Kathy Mattea, Vince Gill, Lee Greenwood, Duane Allen of the Oak Ridge Boys, Bill Monroe, Skeeter Davis and Billy Walker.
McEntire was the Country Music Association's female vocalist of the year from 1984 through 1987. She is the only four-time winner of the award since it was created in 1967.
by CNB