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...Last October Pausch appeared on Oprah, and his audience widened even further. He testified before Congress for better cancer-research funding. He got 10,000 e-mails recommending possible therapies. He spent a day hanging out with the Pittsburgh Steelers, which he'd mentioned as his own childhood dream. ABC News did a prime-time special in which we got to meet his wife Jai, his three young children, watch them playing and planning for what lay ahead...
...have absolutely no sense of guilt, no reproach whatever to myself.'' With that, the former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude (''Baby Doc'') Duvalier, 35, insisted last week in an ABC interview from his rented villa on the French Riviera that he could not be blamed for the plight of his country. But back home in Baby Doc's impoverished Caribbean nation, the three-man ruling National Council of Government, led by Lieut. General Henri Namphy, 53, seemed to be having a hard time holding the country together. The latest troubles began last month when the Information Ministry hired a sports reporter...
...refurbished Statue of Liberty, Wolper has lined up 850 drill- team members, 300 tap dancers, 200 Elvis Presley impersonators, 150 banjo players, two aircraft carriers and one President of the United States. To help pay the spectacle's $30 million bill, Wolper offered the TV rights to the networks. ABC bid $10 million, beating out NBC, the only other network that took part in the auction. ABC's competitors did not mind losing the mock Presleys, but they did have an interest in reporting on that last fellow in the lineup. As part of its deal with Wolper, ABC agreed...
...other networks complained that ABC had no right to treat legitimate news as its own property. ''Anything the President does constitutes news,'' said Lane Venardos, executive producer of special events for CBS. ''Maybe not big news, but news of one form or another.'' Wolper, who staged the glitzy closing ceremonies for the 1984 Olympics, countered that ABC owned the Medals of Liberty presentation and thus had the exclusive right to broadcast the awards. ''It's my medal, and I sold the thing to ABC,'' said Wolper...
Nonetheless, compromise seemed in order, especially after Administration officials quietly pressured Wolper. Just to be sure ABC got the message, Interior Secretary Donald Hodel issued a statement last week saying that public events ''held on Interior-administrated property should be open to the media.'' The next day ABC announced that the other networks could air the opening ceremony remarks made by Hodel and Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca, who heads the foundation that raised funds for the statue's restoration. ABC's competitors will also carry the speeches of Navy Secretary John Lehman and French President Francois Mitterrand, as well...