Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, March 20, 1993 TAG: 9303200289
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THE PEOPLE COLUMN
Pete Williams, whose Pentagon press briefings were broadcast worldwide during the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War, has signed with the NBC News bureau in Washington, D.C., as a national correspondent.Williams worked for 10 years at an NBC affiliate in Casper, Wyo., as an anchor, reporter and news director from 1976 to 1985. The next year he became press secretary and legislative assistant to then-Rep. Dick Cheney, R-Wyo. He subsequently joined Defense Secretary Cheney as assistant secretary for public affairs in 1989.
During the Gulf War he was in the middle of constant battles with the media over battlefield news coverage rules but was personally well-liked.
NBC's Washington bureau chief Tim Russert said that Williams will cover a wide range of things, but he won't cover the Pentagon.
Williams, 41, reportedly had conversations with Washington independent station WTTG and CNN before choosing NBC.
\ A costume designer on ABC's "Wonder Years" says co-stars Fred Savage and Jason Hervey sexually harassed her on the set.
Monique Long, 31, claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that Savage, 16, often tried to hold hands with her, asked her to have an affair and made sexual remarks.
The lawsuit contends Hervey, 20, "viciously grabbed" her by the arms and feigned sex until crew members stopped him. The lawsuit also claims Hervey made remarks such as "I bet you're wild in bed."
Long is seeking unspecified damages.
A lawyer for Savage, Michele Desoer, said the teen-ager "didn't do anything to this woman."
Hervey and his attorney had no comment Thursday.
Savage and Hervey play brothers Kevin and Wayne Arnold in the coming-of-age comedy set in suburban America of the 1960s and '70s.
\ John McEnroe agreed to pay an airline worker an undisclosed sum to settle her lawsuit claiming he shoved her against a wall when she refused to hold a flight for him and his family.
Diane Lempke was "pleased and relieved" by the agreement reached Wednesday in Redwood City, Calif., said her lawyer, Tom LaLanne.
Lempke, a customer service representative for United Airlines, said in her Superior Court lawsuit that the tennis player grew angry when she refused to hold a Hawaii-bound flight until McEnroe's wife, Tatum O'Neal, their two children and their nanny arrived at the gate.
Lempke said she suffered a broken finger in the December 1990 row at San Francisco International Airport. McEnroe was questioned by airport police but not arrested.
Judge Gene McDonald ordered the terms of the agreement to remain confidential.
\ Eddie Murphy finally tied the knot with Nicole Mitchell, his longtime companion and the mother of his two children.
Quincy Jones, Donald Trump, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Arsenio Hall, Robert Townsend, Stevie Wonder, Wayne Newton, Queen Latifah and Sugar Ray Leonard were among the 500 guests invited to the ceremony Thursday night at New York's Plaza Hotel.
Murphy, 31, and Mitchell, 24, met five years ago and have two children - daughter Bria, 3, and son Myles, 4 months.