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...Achille Lauro and hence a suspect in the murder of cruise ship Passenger Leon Klinghoffer, Abbas is on most-wanted lists in the U.S., Italy and Israel. Suddenly, however, the elusive Palestinian showed up on American television last week. In exchange for the exclusive 3 1/2-min. interview, NBC News executives agreed not to disclose Abbas' whereabouts, an arrangement that stirred up almost as much debate among U.S. officials and journalists as the larger issue of whether a hardened terrorist like Abbas should be allowed to use American television as a platform to air his deadly views...
...Obviously, terrorism thrives on this kind of publicity," said Charles Redman, a State Department spokesman. Robert Oakley, head of the State Department's counterterrorism office, called NBC's decision to keep Abbas' location secret "reprehensible" and accused the network of becoming, in effect, the terrorist's "accomplice...
Some journalists criticized NBC not so much for conducting an interview with a wanted terrorist as for agreeing to give up the most newsworthy element of the story. Warren Hoge, foreign editor of the New York Times, says that his paper was offered an Abbas interview several weeks after the ship hijacking, but turned it down. "We can't agree to an arrangement where we can't publish the single most important fact, which is (Abbas') whereabouts," says Hoge. Chicago Tribune Editor James Squires was so incensed by the NBC deal that he wrote his paper's editorial denouncing...
...formula perfectly tuned to the popular funnybone. After raising five children of his own, Cosby in his concerts was increasingly inspired by the bemusement of fatherhood. And it all came together in Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable, the beleaguered, loving father of five, who is at the center of NBC's The Cosby Show, one of the most successful sitcoms in TV history. The show's enormous popularity, Cosby has said, was "a major, major step, not just for the American people but for those who control what goes on the air. The truth is in the numbers, and this helps straighten...
...from NBC News...