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...Brinks guy with his gun,ducking and shooting," said Chris Mackin ofOwnership Associates, a consulting firm on DunsterSt. "The person who looked like he was shot deadwas wearing a fake beard and mustache. But thedriver, he was clearly alert, you could see hiseyes...
Ratings were low, and her days at the station seemed numbered when NBC asked her to audition for the job of Barbara Walters' successor on the Today show. The candidates constituted a virtual Who's Who of women in broadcasting, including Cassie Mackin, Linda Ellerbee and Betty Rollin. "I assumed I was there as a courtesy," says Pauley. Improbably, she won the job. "I was very impressed with her poise," says former NBC News president Richard Wald, now at ABC. "Jane looks like somebody you would meet in your neighborhood but who is just a little smarter and more articulate...
...Government itself has on occasion declined to extradite some suspected terrorists. In 1981 it refused to hand over Desmond Mackin, an I.R.A. member, to Britain, and it is now reviewing the case of I.R.A. fighter Joseph Doherty, an escapee from a Belfast prison...
DIED. Catherine Mackin, 44, a network news correspondent for eleven years; of cancer; at her home in Towson, Md. Blond and blue-eyed in the TV glamour mold, she proved tougher and more competent than many of her male colleagues. She emerged from six years as a Hearst newspaper reporter to gain national acclaim as an aggressive floor reporter for NBC at the 1972 political conventions. Shifting to ABC in 1977, she covered Capitol Hill and national politics...
...dare tell a young woman what her first boss told her: the station already had its quota of one woman reporter. But it rankles that many people confuse her with her NBC colleague Jessica Savitch, with CBS's Stahl and Diane Sawyer and with ABC'S Catherine Mackin, apparently because all are blond. Indeed, President Reagan once addressed Stahl as "Judy" at a press conference. Says Woodruff: "I do not notice many people confusing Roger Mudd and Tom Brokaw." Moreover, she fears that aging will curtail her career: "Men gain credibility as they get older, but women...