TV & VIDEO - Sept. 28, 1987

Bill Cosby, recently named the world’s highest-paid entertainer, will receive a United Nations medal today for leading a campaign to free jailed black South African activists. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar will personally make the presentation at a ceremony in the U.N. Economic and Social Council chamber. Cosby, whose income from his TV show, books and concert appearances in the last two years was a reported $84 million, chairs a group set up by the U.N. committee against apartheid that publicizes the plight of South Africans jailed for activism against Pretoria’s system of racial segregation.