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...Palestinian Professor Saeb Erakat and two colleagues rationally -- if grimly -- debating Arab-Israeli hatreds with four Israeli politicians. In fact, Erakat indicated that he was speaking his mind more freely than he normally felt he could in Israel. Why? "I think that here," he said, "I'm in ABC territory...
...Jerusalem last week ABC created a sort of demilitarized zone as Ted Koppel's late-night news program, Nightline, broadcast five nights of on-the-scene shows. The topics were the recent violence in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as other issues fueling the tragic conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. American TV once again was playing diplomat as well as journalist. And if the results were unlikely to be as dramatic as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's 1977 trip to Jerusalem (spurred by a few well-timed questions from CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite), the venture brought...
...onlookers remained relatively calm. That alone was an accomplishment. "Nothing was said that was new," noted Koppel. "But the very fact that ((Israelis and Palestinians)) sat down, even though there was a wooden wall between them, was a step in the right direction." And, for the sovereign territory of ABC, a television coup...
...ABC said its poll indicated that about 60percent of Jackson's supporters in both statessaid they would vote for Dukakis over Bush in thefall campaign, with only 6 percent saying theyfavored the vice president...
...series Hill Street Blues virtually reinvented TV drama. He followed up that success with the tony courtroom drama L. A. Law and the provocative "dramedy" Hooperman. Bochco is already the most influential and iconoclastic TV producer of the '80s. Now, with a lucrative deal to create ten shows for ABC, he is poised to put his stamp...