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When President Chiang met to discuss this week's story with Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sandra Burton and Taipei Stringer Don Shapiro, it was the leader's first interview with U.S. journalists in more than a year. After the 40-minute session, an aide handed Burton an envelope. In it were Chiang's written answers to questions submitted by TIME three months earlier. The responses...
...four Today programs, with Bryant Gumbel as host, from Ho Chi Minh City. ABC News paid about the same, mostly for four Nightline shows from Indochina and reports on Good Morning America. CBS decided against live broadcasts, relying instead on taped segments (and spending only about $450,000). Howard Stringer, executive vice president of CBS News, said that his network believed live coverage in a restricted society like Viet Nam's promised to produce little news and, in fact, might distort what was seen. "The purpose of live TV is to show some excitement, but there's not much spontaneity...
SADDEST FINISH. Swale, a game second-stringer from Woody Stephens' blighted barn, eclipsed the slightly damaged wonder horse Devil's Bag, who was treated to early retirement to protect a $36 million breeding future. Extraordinarily, but without showing extraordinary exertion, Swale won both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. Eight days later, probably owing to a heart lesion, he died...
Still, some four seasons and 11,000 yds. ago, he was willing to find out. Initially refused a scholarship at Boston College, then tendered the last one available after a coaching change, Flutie arrived from nearby Natick High as a fourth-stringer. By the final quarter of his fourth idle Saturday, glumly watching B.C. in its usual throes-this time trailing Penn State 31-0-he had about resolved to ask Jack Bicknell for a trial at wide receiver, when the coach turned and scanned the bench. In the best tradition of the worst movies, Flutie went in and passed...
That's because Abbott had seen only minimal playing time his sophomore year and because a year ago he was only a second stringer on a team that rarely used a first string tight...