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...presence--11 Marines--waited for a helicopter on the roof. Around them, chaos had blossomed: Saigon was burning, the communists were nearing, and thousands of South Vietnamese were trying to flee with the Americans. Hours earlier, one man had tried to put his baby on an embassy bus, as ABC's Ken Kashiwahara recalls in the oral history Tears Before the Rain. Kashiwahara watched as the man fell, and the bus ran over the baby. But the driver kept going...
...just in equipment but potentially in hundreds of millions of dollars of forgone advertising. When it came to choosing between news and dollars, the networks went with their strength. NBC stuck with a Friends rerun on Thursday even after the ground war had begun, while CBS aired NCAA basketball. ABC and Fox, whose regular Thursday programming usually gets trounced, went with the war. Friends won. On cable, CNN--whose Gulf War I glory days are an increasingly misty memory--hoped its breaking-news reputation would help it unseat No. 1 Fox News. That didn't happen...
Each Wednesday at 8:30 P.M. E.T. on ABC, a character named George Lopez learns a little about himself--that his long-lost father is alive, though his mother claimed he died after walking out on the family, that he has a half brother he's never known about...
Although it has been 21 years since the speedy, high-leaping wide receiver Lynn Swann retired from the Pittsburgh Steelers to join ABC Sports, he has hardly gone to seed. At 50, the 5-ft. 11-in. Hall of Famer with four Super Bowl rings weighs just 180 lbs., has a 31-in. waist and keeps himself in shape. And as chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, he talks about why you should...
...minutes to an hour of cardio on the elliptical machine, the stationary bicycle or the treadmill. Then I do the sit-ups. On three of those days I do an hour of weight lifting with a personal trainer. When I'm on the road, covering college football for ABC, I'll use the team workout rooms...