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Show 6 A The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, April CBS Rebuts Criticism of Show WASHINGTON A (UPI) day alter the con- troversial television documentary People Like Us" was criticized by the White House, CBS News defended the prog- ram against a point-by-poi- rebuttal from a fpderal agency. We have contacted each of the individuals whom we profiled in People Like Us, said a statement from the network news oifice. Each has indicated that our profile of his or her situation and case history was entirely correct. CBS News continues Aides Misspoke, Never Lied to believe that the facts in each of the cases presented in People I jke Us are accurate, and were portrayed correctly. We stand by our story. The program, Haig Denies Hes Wooing Castro 24, 1982 which different showed economic problems being encountered by three poor people, has been termed a below the bell" attack by White House Communications Director David Gergen. The White House com-plain- ts turned the documentary into frontpage news, although it received only mild viewer ratings According to the Neilsen reports, a CBS news spokesman said, People Like Us drew a 10.3 rating (percentage of sets watching) and share (of sets in use). i WASHINGTON lUPI) Secretary of State Alexander Haig has made no specific offer to Cuba to cut its ties with Moscow, a State Department calling such a suggestion spokesman said Friday outside the realm of possibility. Spokesman .Alan Romberg responded to a report that Haig has privately described Fidel Castro as anguishing over such a proposal. If one were to consider, is there a specific offer on the table of some sort that Castro is now anguishing about, that is not in accord with what we have said in the past about tins issue, Romberg said. What we have said, consistently, is that if Cuba it were to change its policies in certain areas revolves around the point of interfering in other countries affairs that we would be willing to reconsider our relationship with Cuba Remarks to Business Leaders was Haig reported to have described the offer in remarks to a group of Massachussets business leaders meeting Wednesday in the office of Rep. Silvio Conte, Of Pac Man 17 One rating point equals households, so the total comes to a little 815,000 more than 8 million households watching. Gergen complained the for show was unfair not having an administration spokesman on the air. The network said the White House has constant access to the airwaves to express its views, and rejected a Gergen request for a r of time to rebut the show. half-hou- Yew Chump SPOKANE, WASH. Postal work(UPI) er Will Kornfeind racked up 2.9 million points on a Pac Man machine to claim a new world record for the popular video game. Kornfeind slipped his quarter into the game at the players and spectators staurant Thursday reaf- ternoon and stopped gobbling ghosties more than six hours later. Haig was said to speak of an unspecified U.S. offer, one that might make Castro consider breaking ties with the Soviets in exchange for returning to the Western camp. "1 dont know of anybody who has suggested that it is within the realistic realm of possibility that anybody should suggest that Cuba cut its ties to Moscow, Romberg said. He, like an aide to Conte, declined to relate Haigs remarks, because they were off the record. But he said the substance of the American position toward there can be no Havana has not changed improvement in relations until Castro stops interfering in its neighbor's affairs. Expressing His Viewpoint At the White House, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said Haig was expressing only his viewpoint to the group of business executives Wednesday. 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