Word: koppel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taps away on the keyboard of a notebook-size Hewlett-Packard, stopping only when a sharp turn sends the little computer sliding off his knees. At home in bed, he parks the portable computer on his ample lap and reviews financial statistics, occasionally looking up to watch Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline...
...never tired of describing the circumstances of his birth--in a tenement on New York City's Lower East Side--as "the urban equivalent of being born in a log cabin." Like many other second-generation Americans, Jacob Koppel Javits was impelled by his humble origins into a life of public service that carried him from his ghetto "log cabin" to the halls of legislative power. Few made the journey with more confidence and gusto, and fewer still left behind a legacy of greater political achievement. When he died last week at 81, of complications from a degenerative nerve...
...explosion of the space shuttle. And on ABC, coverage of the drama in the Philippines began in Moscow, where World News Tonight Anchor Peter Jennings was fighting off a bad cold. After opening Monday's newscast with sniffles and a rasping voice, he passed the baton to Ted Koppel, who wanted to be in Manila but was stuck in Hong Kong. He, in turn, switched to Correspondent Jim Laurie in Manila, who threw it back to Sheilah Kast in Washington...
...stay put. "We had been planning to do this for some time," said Jennings of ABC's coverage of the 27th Communist Party congress in Moscow. "That was a four-day revolution, and you can't chase after every hot story of the week." ABC did send Ted Koppel and his Nightline crew to cover the story. But after leaving New York City for the Philippines over the weekend, they were stranded in Hong Kong on Monday night because Manila's airport was closed. They finally got into the Philippines, with 100 cases of equipment, on Tuesday...
...Koppel's colleagues, meanwhile, were in the difficult position of explaining just what they were doing in their distant locales. Brokaw observed awkwardly that his Tuesday program emanated from Washington, "a city that had a major role in those astonishing developments in the Philippines." Opening his Monday broadcast, Rather drew a strained analogy between Manila, where "an embattled President Marcos struggles to hang on," and the U.S. farm belt, where "embattled farmers struggle to hang on" to their land...