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The two-week vacancy at the top was a painful symbol of the network's mounting woes. Dethroned from its No. 1 spot in the Nielsen ratings by NBC during the 1985-86 season, CBS has lately sunk to a feeble third place. Its ratings for the November "sweeps" were...
Slumps, of course, are made to be broken. ABC jumped from nowheresville to first place in the mid-'70s, and NBC was a sorry No. 3 before Bill Cosby helped boost it to No. 1 in the mid-'80s. But CBS may be in more desperate straits than either of...
Not all the news is bad for CBS. The network still ranks No. 1 in daytime. In addition, it has grabbed the TV rights to several major sports events, including the baseball play-offs and World Series, the NCAA basketball tournament and the 1992 and '94 Winter Olympics -- though for...
With its crusade against the Medellin cocaine cartel coming up short, the Colombian government decided to raise the ante. Two months ago, officials offered $625,000 for information leading to the capture of either of the country's two most infamous traffickers: Pablo Escobar Gaviria, 39, and Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez...
In a wild chase, Rodriguez Gacha's son Fredy, 17, ultimately -- and unwittingly -- led more than 1,000 police and marines to his father. Fredy was arrested last August when the Colombian army raided Rodriguez Gacha's ranch north of Bogota. His alleged crime, possession of illegal weapons, was relatively...