Up Close and Personal 4 Page #10

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But I've got a narrow but very

definite window of opportunity.

And if I can get this...

- And if...

...we get lucky...

...gold!

- Do you really want this?

- You made me want it.

Flight 811 to Miami,

Belize and Panama...

is in its final boarding process.

Passengers should be aboard.

We haven't had enough time.

Every day we have is one day

more than we deserve.

I'm gonna tell you the best

story you've ever heard.

Uh, darling?

Oh! Been a while since I've done this.

Have fun.

Stay upwind.

...to explore possible

repercussions to our economy.

Meanwhile the dollar continued its

freefall against the yen and the mark.

We'll be discussing this latest run

on the dollar tomorrow night...

on American Notebook with Treasury

Secretary, Willis Barry.

This is Tom Orr.

I'll see you then.

- Tally, how are you?

- Go on, sit down, He won't bite.

don't get too attached to that chair.

You know, I call it home.

Have you got the uplink?

We're gonna try out a new stringer. Just

chat him along. We've got some minutes.

Satellite time costs money, boys!

Run him out here.

Here he is.

That has to be the dirtiest excuse

for a reporter I have ever seen.

My God, it's the anchor person.

New hairdo, I'll bet.

Shoe shined.

Hey, Buford, get the hell outta here.

I wanna talk to my wife alone.

- Miss me?

- Occasionally.

When are you coming home?

I got a few more days in the

boonies. Then I can wrap this up.

- Did you get it?

- Yeah, I got it. I nailed it.

- You look so good.

- I'm sort of glad I can't see you.

The mind...

it's a wonderful, dirty thing.

But wait.

Just one more thing I wanted

to tell you.

God, I'm having' fun.

Okay, first of all...

I'm gonna try not to cry.

This is for Warren, who couldn't

quite make the party...

but is definitely on his way back

home from what he calls hog heaven.

Ned, who is one of two people who

knows what I look like in the morning.

Where is he? Ned?

What are you doing?

Usually, for these farewell bashes,

I only budget domestic bubbly.

To repeat, reports are sketchy.

But we're receiving word that in the

remote Darien section of Panama...

a freelance news crew came under

heavy fire within the past 24 hours.

The group included

at least one American.

- We don't know if the survivors...

- Enough of Bulgarian bullshit!

Ive liberated the hard liquor!

We can now confirm by this startling,

unedited footage that the American...

is former I.B. S newsman,

Warren Justice.

There he is. He's okay.

Get down!

Lt's now definitely confirmed that

at least two crew members survived.

- He's okay. He made it.

- We're trying to technically...

enhance these pictures so we can

confirm exactly what we are seeing.

We still don't know what

motivated this attack.

Information is contradictory...

but it appears to indicate

that an ambush took place...

at this remote airstrip near the

Colombian border in southern Panama.

We are hearing via telephone hook-up

with sources in Panama...

that Justice was investigating

reports about the arming of groups...

violently opposed to the turning over

of the Panama Canal.

Excuse me.

We have now confirmed that the

American traveling with this group...

former I.B.S. Newsman, Warren Justice,

was killed today in Panama.

Warren Justice was a seasoned

journalist and a good friend.

As we continue...

to sort this out,

we'll take a short break...

to allow our stations

to identify themselves.

We'll have more on this breaking

story in Panama when we return.

This is the I.B.S. Evening News,

I'm Tom Orr.

Questions emerging from information

uncovered by former I.B.S. Newsman...

Warren Justice, before

his death in Panama...

are beginning to seem

uncomfortably close to home to...

some people in Washington.

This network is just now editing tape

obtained by Justice before his death.

Information in this tape seems

to change the face of...

You know those faces.

You remember those stories.

They were the men and women

who made I.B.S. News this year...

number one in five of your

twelve top markets.

Next year, you can count on this:

We're going to be even better...

because the I.B.S. News Team just

acquired a stealth weapon.

You may not have caught

her on W.M.I.A.

You may have missed her

at W.F.I.L. News.

But none of us will soon forget her

award-winning coverage...

of the riots of Holmesburg Prison.

What we in the news business

must never forget is...

we are only as good as

the stories we tell.

She arrived in our business from

Small town, U.S.A.

You can say that Sallyanne knew

what she wanted, to be number one.

And Sallyanne, as her family

like to call Tally...

wouldn't take no for an answer.

Everyone said...

"You want a job in television?

You have to make a demo tape."

So... I made a demo.

Why hire Sally? Because I'm Sally,

and I'm going to be a star.

So, she walks into my office

that first day in Miami.

Skinny.

God-awful clothes.

Not much going' for her. Wanting

to be anybody but herself.

And I make her get my shirts and

I make her get the coffee.

I shoot down all of her stories.

But she was tougher than me.

She was already something.

She was already the sun and the

moon, all by herself.

We at I.B.S. Hold a special

place in our hearts...

for that honored handful of

news men and women...

whose lives and careers, in the course

of bringing home the news...

have been cut tragically short.

We salute them.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to

begin a new generation at I.B.S.

Tally Atwater.

Panama turned out to be

a big story for I.B.S.

It didn't start that way.

It started with one reporter...

who had a hunch.

He had a hunch. And he went alone.

And he did all the leg-work.

And, at the end of the day,

he got it.

Which is what going this

is all about.

I didn't always think that. I thought

if I ever stood up at something like...

that, it would be about glory or,

showing people.

It's different.

I know that now.

I'm only here for one reason.

To tell the story.

My husband told me that,

not so long ago.

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