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...program, with Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel as hosts, shows how Washington's overriding policy goal of containing Communism has affected a wide array of decisions, including the Marshall Plan and the 1977 decision to hand over the Canal Zone to Panama (an example to Third World nations that the U.S., not the Soviet Union, is the better friend). By advertising in local newspapers, ABC was able to find color footage of Churchill's 1946 visit to Fulton, Mo., where he delivered his famed Iron Curtain speech, and of General Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo...
Jennings and Koppel put events into the context of U.S. cultural history by referring to collage boxes filled with such props as Hula-Hoops and the Star Wars robot Artoo-Detoo. Since the program concentrates on the U.S., it tends to highlight American mistakes and triumphs rather than those of the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, the cold war themes are handled with sophistication and balance. ABC's 40-year journey offers fresh, sometimes offbeat details about many of the terrain's landmarks and a knowing sense of how they shaped the modern world...
...picking a panel of people who know most about the issue, even if it was 50 people on each side, I'm not sure I'd pick either man," admitted ABC's Ted Koppel. Even so, the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Jerry Falwell starred on Nightline last week, locking horns over the subject of U.S. policy in South Africa. Falwell, founder of Moral Majority, argued that withdrawing U.S. investments from South Africa in an effort to coerce the country into abandoning apartheid would do more harm than good. Said he: "We can cut out the cancer without killing the patient...
...flare-up was in response to a monologue by Le Duc Tho, 73, who sat opposite Kissinger during the Paris peace talks in the early 1970s and still serves in Viet Nam's Politburo. Smiling like a kindly uncle but persistently ducking the questions of Nightline's Ted Koppel, Tho thanked "the American people for their support and contribution to our present victory." That smug expression of gratitude, delivered about a war that holds such painful memories for Americans, further galled Kissinger. On ABC's Good Morning America next day, he reiterated his complaint about television's handling...
...live coverage was not so much propagandistic as it was unenlightening. Today's Gumbel, sitting in semidarkness and encircled by a cloud of bugs, spent much of his on-air time introducing taped segments. Koppel's interview with Tho illustrated the perils of live TV: the Vietnamese official was able to ramble on because Koppel was plagued by a faulty communications hookup and could not break into the harangue...