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...forces and guerrillas combined. Those who strike it lucky are envied by the others. One night, at the microwave station feeding the day's catch to the U.S.,-this reporter, who had found only sleeping soldiers after a day of fruitless searching, was told by a competitor that "ABC has bang-bang just like Viet Nam [the highest class of footage]. Tim Ross [ABC freelance correspondent] has a colonel in a jeep, just like central casting, saying they have a wounded black guerrilla they suspect is a Cuban...
...with a Cuban-type star on it. (Nobody knew exactly what a Cuban-type star was supposed to look like.) In another report, the prisoner was said to have died. "Now they'll never know if he had a Cuban accent," said one reporter. Out in the countryside, ABC and NBC vans in search of the elusive Cuban bogged down in the mud, and a Salvadoran peasant collected two crisp 100 colones notes ($80) to haul the vans out with a team of oxen-while a network cameraman captured the action. When Ike Seamans of NBC approached...
...Jose Guillermo Garcia replied to the inevitable questions: "Yes, there have been reports of some foreigners ... yes, black..." But in the end Garcia could not confirm that the Cuban existed. Perhaps the distinguished members of the press would be interested in a Nicaraguan prisoner-a commandante?Outside the room, ABC Producer Frank Manitzas performed a little skit, complete with Cuban accent: "Sure he was a Cuban. There he sat, with a big black cigar in his mouth, and said, 'Oye, chico-got a light...
...Cola, as Godafd described them in his wonderful 1966 film Masculin-Feminin, are now the adults of EST and Perrier. And their movies--An Unmarried Woman, The Goodbye Girl, Kramer Versus Kramer, and now Shoot the Moon--are self-centered and, mostly, boring. Television is now catching on, with ABC offering a TV-movie that cashes in on both the trend toward family crisis dramas and space adventures with the ungainly title Divorce Wars. The books on pop self-analysis which have bloated the "psychology" section of bookstores are the attempt of this generation to try and adjust rock...
...evidence, he cited ABC's coverage of the region since the murder of Sean Toolan, a part-time radio reporter for ABC in Beirut. He was killed shortly after ABC-TV aired a special report by Correspondent Geraldo Rivera that was sharply critical of Palestinian terrorism. Said Chafets: "ABC, from the time that [Toolan's death] happened, in my view, began a policy which I would describe as cowardly." The recent 20/20 segment "Under the Israeli Thumb" by Correspondent Tom Jarriel, Chafets said, was "one of the most malicious, distorted and one-sided programs about Israel shown...