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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2006
OBITUARY
'60 Minutes' journalist dies
CBS newsman Ed Bradley died Thursday of leukemia at New York's Mount Sina Hospital. He was 65 years old, Bradley spent 26 years on the show and was famous for his interviews.
BY FRAZIER MOORE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASSOCIATED PRES
NEW YORK — Ed Bradley, the award-winning television journalist who broke racial barriers at CBS News and created a distinctive, powerful body of work during his 26 years on "60 Minutes," died Thursday. He was 65.
Bradley died of leukemia at Mount Sinai hospital, CBS News announced.
He landed many memorable interviews, including the Duke lacrosse players accused of rape, Michael Jackson and the only TV interview with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
Bradley "was tough in an interview, he was insistent on getting an interview," said former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, "and at the same time when the interview was over, when the subject had taken a pretty heavy lashing by him, they left as friends. He was that kind of guy"
Bradley's consumate skills were recognized with numerous awards, including four George Foster Peabody awards and 19 Emmys, the latest for a segment on the reopening of the 50-year-old racial murder case of Emmett Till.
With his signature earring and beard, Bradley was "considered intelligent, smooth, cool, a great reporter, beloved and respected by all his colleagues here at CBS News," Katie Couric said in a special report.
Three of his Emmys came at the 2003 awards: for lifetime achievement; a report on brain cancer patients; and a report about sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. He also won a lifetime achievement award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
Bradley joined "60 Minutes" in 1981 when Dan Rather left to replace Cronkite as anchor of "The CBS Evening News."
His reporting ability was matched by his interviewing finesse. When he spoke with McVeigh in February 2000 at the federal prison in Terre
Haute, Ind., the convicted bomber told Bradley that he was angry and bitter after fighting in the Gulf War. In December 2003, Jackson said he had been "manhandled" when arrested on child molestation charges a few weeks earlier.
"Ed could get people to say the damnest thing because he put them at ease," said former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw said Thursday.
Though he had been ill and had undergone heart bypass surgery about a year ago, he remained active on "60 Minutes." In one of his last reports, an investigation of the Duke case that aired last month, he broke new ground with the first interviews with the accused.
Born June 22, 1941, Bradley grew up in a tough section of Philadelphia, where he once recalled that his parents worked 20-hour days at two jobs apiece. "I was told, 'You can be anything you want, kid,'" he once told an interviewer. "When you hear that often enough, you believe it."
After graduating from the historically black Cheyney State College (now Cheyney University of Pennsylvania), he launched his career as a jazz DJ — he was a lifelong jazz fan — and news reporter for a Philadelphia radio station in 1963. He moved to New York's WCBS radio four years later.
He joined CBS News as a stringer in the Paris bureau in 1971, transferring a year later to the Saigon bureau during the Vietnam War. He was wounded while on assignment in Cambodia. He was named a CBS News correspondent in early 1973 and moved to the Washington bureau in June 1974. He later returned to Vietnam, covering the fall of that country and Cambodia.
Cronkite recalled first meeting Bradley in Vietnam: "He seemed to be fearless, an incredibly smart reporter in getting the story"
After Southeast Asia, Bradley returned to the United States and covered Jimmy Carter's successful campaign for the White House. He followed Carter to Washington, in 1976 becoming CBS' first black
White House correspondent.
He jumped from Washington to doing pieces for "CBS Reports," traveling to Cambodia, China, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. It was his Emmy-winning 1979 piece on Vietnamese boat refugees that eventually landed him on "60 Minutes."
Bradley recently served as a radio host for "Jazz at Lincoln Center," where he won one of his four Peabody awards.
Wynton Marsalis, artistic director of Lincoln Center's jazz department, called Bradley "one of our definitive cultural figures, a man of unsurpassed curiosity, intelligence, dignity and heart."
Accepting his lifetime achievement award from the black journalists association, Bradley remembered being present at some of the organization's first meetings in New York.
"I look around this room tonight and I can see how much our profession has changed and our numbers have grown," he said. "I also see it every day as I travel the country reporting stories for '60 Minutes.' All I have to do is turn on the TV and I can see the progress that has been made."
But, he added, "There are many more rivers to cross, and many more stories to cover and, I hope, a lot left in this lifetime."
Bradley is survived by his wife, Patricia Blanchet.
POLITICS
Kline's memo called 'worst abuse of religion'
BY JOHN HANNA ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kline's directions to his campaign staff included making sure friendly pastors brought "money people" to fundraisers and signing up church members to help with passing out campaign literature. It said one goal was to form a pro-Kline committee at each church.
TOPEKA — A memo Attorney General Phil Kline wrote outlining a plan to fully tap his support among churchgoers was the worst abuse of religion in American politics during the 2006 election cycle, a national group said Wednesday.
The memo's designation came from the Interfaith Alliance, a Washington-based group that promotes the separation of church and state and government neutrality on religion.
Kline already faced criticism over his activities involving churches.
Former Attorney General Bob
Former ACL Stephan, a fellow Republican who broke with Kline politically, asked the state ethics commission to investigate church activities, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service.
"People of faith don't deserve to be treated like members of a labor union or members of the business community."
paign activities. For years, Kline has spoken during services and to church groups about reconciling with his once-stranded father and the importance of people having God in their lives.
Kline spokeswoman Sherrine Jones said she had no reaction.
"People of faith don't deserve to be treated like members of a labor union or members of the business community," Blake said. "They deserve a lot more respect than that because they cut across all sort of partisan, ideological lines, not to mention theological lines."
Kline repeatedly insisted that inspirational messages he sometimes gave at churches weren't connected to cam-
"I think the memo that Phill Kline wrote to his staff demonstrated how drastically he wanted to use pastors to raise money for his campaign," said William Blake, a spokesman for the Interfaith Alliance.
"How fair is it? I guess my question is what difference does it make?" Shallenburger said. "I don't think you can look at the Kline election from either side, from a variety of issues, and find the word 'fair'"
He and his aides also have said Kline was careful to see that neither he nor churches would run aufoul on federal tax laws against nonprofit groups intervening in partisan campaigns.
Kline already had received national attention for his two-year effort to obtain records of 90 patients from two
WILLIAM BLAKE Interfaith Alliance spokesman
The alliance's list chided both Democrats and Republicans, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., expected to become House speaker. The alliance included her because she encouraged
The internal campaign memo, dated Aug. 8, became public the next month when someone leaked it anonymously to news organizations. It likely contributed to Kline's loss Tuesday to Democrat Paul Morrison, the Johnson County district attorney, because many voters thought it showed Kline used religion for political enrichment.
But GOP State Chairman Tim Shallenburger questioned whether Kansans would care about the assessment of "a group whose sole effort is to separate God from country."
abortion clinics.
Democrats to couch campaign arguments in Biblical terms to appeal to people of faith.
Inside Kline's campaign, his memo became known as the "Slimfast" memo because in it, the candidate told his staff that if he had free time, he should be taken to a quiet place so that he could make phone calls.
"feed me Slimfast." Kline wrote.
"Do not need a sit down meal. Takes too much time."
HEALTH
BY ANDREW BRIDGES ASSOCIATED PRESS
FDA finds metal in acetaminophen
WASHINGTON — Check your medicine cabinet: Millions of bottles of the widely used pain reliever acetaminophen — some sold as long as three years ago — are being recalled because they may contain metal fragments.
The recall affects 11 million bottles containing varying quantities of 500-milligram acetaminophen caplets made by the Perrigo Co. The pills were sold under store brands by Wal-Mart, CVS, Safeway and more than 120 other major retailers, the Food and Drug Administration said. At least two chains — CVS Corp. and SuperValu Inc. — started pulling the pills from store shelves Thursday.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or illness. The contaminated pills included metal fragments ranging in size from " microdots" to portions of wire one-third of an inch long, the FDA said. The FDA could not describe further the type of metal.
Perrigo discovered the metal bits during quality-control checks done after the company discovered its equipment was wearing down prematurely, the FDA said. Agency officials declined to say whether the metal found in the pills caused the damage or resulted from it.
A company investigation found metal in roughly 200 pills of the 70 million it passed through a metal detector, according to the FDA.
Consumers who take any of the
The 129 retailers that could be affected by the recall include Wal-Mart Stores Inc., CVS, Safeway Stores and SuperValu. They typically sell the Perrigo-made pills under their own or other private labels.
contaminated pills could have minor stomach discomfort or possible cuts to the mouth and throat, the FDA said, adding that the risk of serious injury was remote.
Perrigo, based in Allegan, Mich., said the pills contained raw material purchased from a third-party supplier and affected 383 batches. Messages left Thursday with two company spokesmen were not immediately returned.
The recall does not affect products sold under the TYlenol brand.
Perrigo said the retail pain reliever market is worth more than $2 billion a year. The company is the world's largest manufacturer of store-brand nonprescription drugs.
The agency does not suspect the contamination was deliberate, said Dr. Douglas Throckmorton, deputy director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
The FDA did not know in which states the pills had been sold, but recommended that customers determine whether products they bought are being recalled by checking the store list on the FDA Web site. http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/perriro-perigrocustlist.html and the batch list. http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/perriro-perigrocustbatch.html
The batch numbers appear on the container's label.
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