Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, February 13, 1993 TAG: 9302130238
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PEOPLE
Former presidential hopeful Paul Tsongas is finishing up treatment for his latest bout with cancer, and starting to talk politics again."It's nice to be back in action," said Tsongas, who was interviewed about the deficit this week by National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."
He said President Clinton has been tougher on economics than he expected, but that Clinton stumbled by pressuring Judge Kimba Wood to withdraw from consideration as attorney general after reports that she had hired an illegal alien.
Tsongas was diagnosed with large-cell lymphoma last fall. A previous bout with cancer forced him to resign from the U.S. Senate. He returned to politics as a Democratic presidential candidate for 1992, but halted his campaign because of money problems.
Tsongas turns 52 on Sunday.
Brandon Cruz, who played Eddie in the old TV series "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," was sentenced to five days of manual labor and fined $1,550 after pleading no contest in Ventura, Calif., to drunken driving.
Cruz, 30, also was ordered to attend an alcohol education program. His lawyer entered the plea for him Wednesday. Cruz didn't appear in court.
Cruz said in court records that he flagged down a California Highway Patrol officer Sept. 21 after a truck ran him off a freeway. The officer gave Cruz a sobriety test, and he flunked, police said.
"The Courtship of Eddie's Father" ran on ABC from 1969 to 1972.
Former Washington Post correspondent Dusko Doder has filed a libel suit against Time magazine over an article that accused him of accepting money from the KGB while he was the Post's bureau chief in Moscow.
Doder's attorneys filed papers with the High Court in London demanding unspecified monetary damages from Time, along with an injunction barring the magazine from repeating the allegations.
The article last December detailed accusations that Doder, while working for the Post in Moscow in the 1980s, accepted $1,000 from a KGB agent. It also implied Doder's many reporting coups in Moscow resulted from information fed to him by the KGB.
Doder denied the allegations. Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. and Managing Editor Robert G. Kaiser wrote a letter to Time defending Doder and noting that the allegation concerning money from the KGB had been investigated by the FBI years ago and found without basis.
The article implied that Doder had left his employment with The Post under a cloud. But Downie and Kaiser said Doder was held in consistently high regard at the newspaper, which he left in 1987 to become China correspondent for U.S. News & World Report.
Doder is now based in Belgrade, where he works as a free-lance journalist. He and his wife, English journalist Louise Branson, own an apartment there and their two children are British citizens.