Word: abc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BABY M (ABC, May 22 and 23, 9 p.m. EDT). Fresh off the front page: JoBeth Williams portrays Mary Beth Whitehead, the surrogate mother who launched the famous custody battle...
...ABC polling analyst Doug Muzzio said a majority of liberals and moderates and a plurality of conservatives said Dukakis' views were "just right" as opposed to too liberal or too conservative...
...ABC said its polling in West Virginia indicated that Dukakis was acceptable to voters across the political spectrum, although nearly 30 percent of the voters said they didn't know how to describe the Massachusetts governor's ideology...
...Jerusalem last week ABC created a sort of demilitarized zone as Ted Koppel's late-night news program, Nightline, broadcast five nights of on-the-scene shows. The topics were the recent violence in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as other issues fueling the tragic conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. American TV once again was playing diplomat as well as journalist. And if the results were unlikely to be as dramatic as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's 1977 trip to Jerusalem (spurred by a few well-timed questions from CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite), the venture brought...
...onlookers remained relatively calm. That alone was an accomplishment. "Nothing was said that was new," noted Koppel. "But the very fact that ((Israelis and Palestinians)) sat down, even though there was a wooden wall between them, was a step in the right direction." And, for the sovereign territory of ABC, a television coup...