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...wonder that Sawyer, at 43, is the hottest newswoman in television? The sort of star news executives battle over, make promises to, open their wallets for? Last February, after more than ten years at CBS, she was hired away by ABC for a reported $1.6 million a year. The primary lure: the chance to join Sam Donaldson as co-anchor of Prime Time Live, the new weekly show that will debut this Thursday at 10 p.m. EDT. In addition, ABC dangled occasional fill-in anchor duty on World News Tonight and Nightline. The prospect of losing Sawyer so rattled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Star Power: Diane Sawyer | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

PRIME TIME LIVE (ABC, beginning Aug. 3, 10 p.m. EDT). And there's more, news junkies. In this ambitious new ABC offering, Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson each week will face a studio audience and the formidable task of putting a fresh spin on the news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jul. 31, 1989 | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

State Department spokesmen say the FBI is investigating unspecified "illegal activities" to determine "the extent of the compromise of security that has occurred." Bloch, who was born in Austria, is believed to have been recruited there by the Soviets at least three years ago, according to an ABC News report. Posted back to Washington, in 1988 he became director in charge of relations with the European Community and other international economic bodies for the State Department's Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Spy At State? | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

...Danson. The guy on that ABC show...

Author: By Julio Verala, | Title: Life Without Mort Downey | 7/25/1989 | See Source »

Before long, the man from nowhere (he was, in fact, briefly a reporter for ABC in Viet Nam, and was said to have ties to Asian businessmen who were paying for his house, two bodyguards and Mercedes) had reportedly been host to John Mitchell and William Casey, journalists Ted Koppel and William Safire, and several Congressmen. By 1982 he had served enough lamb chops to merit a profile in the New York Times. The story trumpeted his ability to open doors all over town, even though the paper could not quite put its finger on who he was. It called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington's Man from Nowhere | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

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