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<p>Walt Disney Co. Vice Chairman Roy E. Disney submitted his resignation from the company board on Sunday and called for Disney Chairman and Chief Executive Michael Eisner to step down from his own positions.</p> <p>Mr. Disney, nephew to the late Walt Disney, sent Mr. Eisner a tough three-page letter severely criticizing his leadership during the past seven years. "It is my sincere belief that it is you who should be leaving and not me," Mr. Disney wrote. "Accordingly, I once again call for your resignation or retirement."</p>

Date: Tue May 27, 2003 3:05:51 PM America/New_York Subject: NIGHTLINE: What Did We Miss? TONIGHT'S SUBJECT: Four separate attacks in Iraq yesterday, two soldiers killed and nine wounded today. It looks like the security situation keeps deteriorating. Should we have been better prepared? Did we misjudge the situation, or did we just get some things wrong? Actually there's a tougher question there, was some intelligence ignored or shaped to support a particular point of view? ---- Things aren't working out exactly according to plan. Post-war Iraq is proving to be a much tougher problem in many ways. It certainly appears...

Members of the DC Chapter were invited by Nightline to participate in a town hall meeting on the pending war with Iraq because, as we were told, they didn't want the audience in the show to be taken over by those against the war. We were told that they wanted the audience to represent the national trend in the country, which is currently 65-35 in favor of the President's policy on Iraq. What we experienced during the hour and forty-minute taping was the exact opposite of what we had been led to believe. The show started out balanced. The questions...

ABC asked to reduce prime time By DOUG HALONEN David Barrett, who heads the company that has the most ABC affiliates in the country, has a message for the network: Slash your prime-time schedule from 22 hours a week to 15 so his stations can make some decent money. "I would love to see the networks cut back to 15 [hours a week]," said Mr. Barrett, president and CEO of Hearst-Argyle Television, at a financial seminar hosted by Bear Stearns in Washington last week. Mr. Barrett has already had discussions with ABC suggesting that it return to affiliates the 10...

Winnie the Pooh Ruling Wallops DisneyIn a major setback to the Walt Disney Co. in the long-running Winnie the Pooh royalties case, a California appellate court Wednesday let stand potentially devastating jury instructions. Disney appealed an August 2001 order by L.A. Superior Court Judge Ernest Hiroshige imposing sanctions because it destroyed documents, including a filed marked "Pooh-legal problems." Hiroshige's order stated that a jury could be told as a fact that Disney willfully suppressed evidence. He also ruled deceased Disney employee Vincent Jefferds said the Slesinger family -- the plaintiffs -- would be paid royalties on video cassettes. Finally, the...

November 11, 2002 CNN's Parent May Postpone News Merger With ABCBy BILL CARTER and JIM RUTENBERG egotiators of the proposed merger between CNN and ABC News reported extensive progress late last week and predicted that an agreement in principle could be in place as early as January. But as the negotiators pushed ahead, new questions arose over whether the leadership of CNN's parent, AOL Time Warner, would delay any deal as it coped with other issues roiling the company. AOL Time Warner has been buffeted by a series of crises in the past year, including management changes, and it...