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Huntington Williams is running into some closed doors as he hits the road to talk about his new book, “Beyond Control: ABC and the Fate of the Networks.” Williams, who was once a speech writer for former ABC executives Leonard Goldenson and Elton Rule, has had dates canceled by KABC’s Michael Jackson show here and WABC’s Dave Dawson show in New York. Spokesmen for the publishers, Atheneum, say they were told the Williams appearance with Jackson was called off because his book is “too much of an indictment of the ABC network.” However, a KABC spokesman said the reason was simply because the book would not appeal to Jackson’s audience. “Beyond Control,” a capsule history of the three major networks and a study of the influences behind the rise, decline and sale of ABC to Capital Cities, is scheduled for a Nov. 9 release.