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H-2 .PEOPLE 8b From WiTe Reports NOSURREND•: A Warner Bros. exec says there's no way Clint Eastwood's character in Heartbreak · will from a Marine to an Army '6"'"""' ~:otlitier--'- that it's far too late to a change in the film. So says •gossip columnist Marilyn Beck .·about the movie, which is •.. scheduled for year-end release. .•• Reports surfaced last week that .•· .••. such a change might be made, · •·· ·after Army veterans protested Eastwood's playing a Marine Corps sergeant who won a medal ~t Heartbreak Ridge-where the Army waged a major1battle during the Korean War. • j MORE LEEWAY: Walter Cronkite, making a rare appearance on rival ABC, said Monday that taking the CBS Morning News away from the network's Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and his: news division could give the show elbow room to family come out smiling from the Broa~: .~ compete with its rivals. CBS announced last month way opening of Me and My Girl on Sunday: ·. that the third-rated program, with Forrest Sawyer in New York. Iacocca is with his daughter,~:··· and as co-hosts, would be repla~;ed Kathi (left), and wife, Peggy. .,· · with a revamped show under a department outside p. ' ~the news division. "They think it gives them a little at the museum, which has the only exhibit of the more freedom, taking it out of news, where I'm very treasure Fisherretrievedfrom the Atlantic off the · proud to say CBS has very strong strictures," the ' Florida coast from two sunken Spanish ships. "I'll · , .. former CBS Evening News anchor said on ABC's never retire and just do nothing, but rather I'll in New York. Cronkite, probably be a consultant and oversee expeditiorls," · speaking from his sailboat in Portland, Maine, also he said. "I will probably be treasure hunting the rest said network broadcasts should concentrate on of my life. Its not just the gold or the emeralds. It important news. "I felt we weren't perhaps being gets in your blood." serious enough about the news," he said. • •• TODAY IN HISTORY: In 1898, Hawaii was annexed by , STRONG HE~T: Queen Elizabeth n, who had what the United States after Congress passed a joint · was described as a routine heart checkup last week, resolution. Also on this date, in 1676, the most climbed 152 steps to tl:l.~ top of Britain's westernmost destructive Indian war in New England history lighthouse Monday at Kilchoan, Scotland. The 60- ended with the death of Wampanoag Chief Philip , year-old qu~n,became the firs1 British monarch to near Mount Hope, R.I. In 1851, Isaac Singer was · cli-.~b the H4-toot.AJ."dn11J.rchan htghthouse, granted a patent on his sewing machine. In ~898, the ove~king the Iri8hSeaon.tke.southwestern coast peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War of Scotfaru:LShe iS va'call:o~g ~e rest of this.week was signed. In 1915, the novel Of Human Bondage by at BalmoraHil~~le. Ligb,thQ~ekeever Jbn .l:lar4ie . William Somerset Mangham was published. In 1941, said the queen Ci~Q,ed witb.ease ~wa~.na~ont of French Marshal Henri Petain called on his country breath when she ' ~, the top. Bubkiri~Mii '· to support Nazi Germany. In 1960, the satellite Echo I Palace said the.qu . . ·.•· •ent aro.uti~' was launched by the United States. In 1976, the examination last 'I'u~y at London's Natibnru. · Republican Platform Committee voted to support , Heart Hospital. Palac~.officials said the queen is in ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1985, good health. · · · a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 crashed into a ...... • ::,;,;.. . mountain in Japan, killing 520 people, in histozy's GLEAM IN THEIR EYES: Treasure hunter MeJ•.iD. worst single-plane air crash. Fisher ~ys he enjoystheJoc}lts on children'sia~~ • ..>- when they see the gold Qilrs, silver pla~es,.pieces'~ . , . . . · ").. eight and antique weawns in his exhibitatthe ''"':! TODAY'SBIRTHDAYS: Comedian-actor Ca~ ~ In.·· di~p·o·l·i· sC. h. ildre.. n.'s M.u. seu. m,_"Th__ .. e,y.. · c~n-.c.ome ..in 1 7~. Ac~ess Jane Wyatt is 74. Choreog·r· ~PY ...'\.'),~ really bored about history but gooutreally tqrned Kidd lS 67. Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark./ ~ on:about tli&'way people andtl:l.etools theY · ActorJohn Derek is 60. Actor liv~d 1 Geor~ ~~ used," said Fisher,~. Monday was ''Mel Fisher D~" i ~cow' ,. > • ' ,·,···. t