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...weather at the Church of God's Providence to commemorate the occasion. But in the sanctuary there was one conspicuously empty chair. It symbolized the absence of the baby's father, who had never seen his seventh child. Last week, as shown by photographs obtained exclusively by ABC's World News Tonight, Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa finally got to hold his two-month-old daughter in his arms. His wife Danuta and Maria Victoria were allowed a two-day visit at a villa in Otwock, about 14 miles southeast of Warsaw, where Walesa was brought from another...
...Steinbrenner! ABC sports reporter Dick Schaap gives The Great White Shipbuilder as fair a treatment as he'll probably ever get. Oh, he can't resist the usual jokes--he calls his subject "George III" for his tyrannical reign over the ballclub, and "the Yankee Clipper" for forcing his charges to get haircuts. (That demand angered at least one Yankee--outfielder Oscar Gamble, whose legendary afro added more than 12" to his six-foot frame, forcing his to affix his baseball cap with bobby pips...
...history. Last week National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle presented to the annual meeting of owners a $2 billion television contract that goes beyond spectacular almost all the way to embarrassing. For the next five years, each of the 28 teams in the league will be compensated by ABC, NBC and CBS at an average of $14.2 million per season-up from about $5.8 million...
...contract keeps cable television and other pay-TV systems away from any N.F.L. action for another five years. NBC and CBS have been raised from two preseason games to three. ABC gets an extra prime-time evening game and in 1985 joins in the Super Bowl network rotation. Last, but not peanuts, the networks have permission to sell another minute of advertising in all 243 games, making 24 commercial minutes per broadcast, at regular season rates estimated as high...
...ABC, Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.S.T...