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...those helicopters crashed into a football field near the remote Nias village of Aman Draya, killing six naval and three air-force personnel. Two of the dead were women. Two male survivors were pulled from the burning wreckage and airlifted to the Kanimbla. Witnesses told abc-TV that the helicopter's engine failed 30 m above the ground. "This is really quite heartbreaking," said Prime Minister John Howard of his country's worst military accident since a 1996 helicopter collision in which 18 servicemen died. "Those young Australians were on a mission of mercy and compassion...
...POWER LINE bloggers who launched the Dan Rather Memogate questions last year are doubting the authenticity of another incendiary document: a talking-points memo, first reported last month by ABC News and the Washington Post, detailing how Republican Senators could use Terri Schiavo to their advantage. Righties, after floating the idea that the unsigned--and letterhead-less--memo could have been "a Democratic dirty trick," were angling for retractions. But ABC and the Post countered that they never said a G.O.P. official wrote the memo, only that it was "circulated among" and "distributed to" Republican Senators...
...KOPPEL, who announced last week he would step down as anchor of ABC's Nightline after 25 years (and 42 with the network), isn't heading off to the links when his contract ends in December. The cerebral newsman says he is weighing offers to do the kind of long-form reporting he did in Iraq in 2003. He won't divulge the gigs, but says, "I'm not going to all of a sudden start doing fashion." Heidi Klum, rest easy...
...LOST (ABC, WEDNESDAYS, 8 P.M. E.T.) Each week a band of unfortunates narrowly escapes deadly pitfalls in pursuit of a shadowy mystery. Not the characters--the writers. They've recklessly piled on several seasons' worth of plot twists in one year. Yet the show has stayed just this side of ridiculous, through grounded performances and a flashback device that keeps it all from getting too claustrophobic--and helps newcomers get to know the cast...
APPOINTED. ROBERT IGER, 54, longtime ABC executive and president of Walt Disney Co.; as CEO, to replace his boss, Michael Eisner, who will step down in September, a year earlier than expected, after coming under fire for his autocratic management style and Disney's recent lackluster growth; by the board of directors; in Burbank, Calif...