Frank Reynolds dead at age 59
WASHINGTON Frank Reynolds, an ABC News anchorman;;
and reporter who covered the world's major stories for nearly two
decades, died early Wednesday, the network said.
Reynolds, 59, had been severely ill with viral hepatitis since mid
April and had not appeared in his anchor slot on ABC's "World
News Tonight" since then, said Ilise Adde, a network spokeswoman.
He died at 2:40 a.m. at Sibley Memorial Hospital, said Linda
Blythe, an intensive care unit nurse. She declined to give the exact
cause of Reynolds' death.
Reynolds had been chief anchorman of "World News Tonight"
since 1978, and won broadcasting's George Foster Peabody Award
in 1979. '
Prior to his anchor assignment with Max Robinson and Peter
Jennings, he had covered all major political conventions and cam
paigns sincses 1965, the Watergate scandal and the U.S. manned
spaceflight program. He also did commentary and analysis of presi
dential speeches and press conferences.
Reynolds was seen nightly during the Iranian hostage crisis.
fn June, David Burke, an ABC News vice president, said
Reynolds, prolonged absence had lowered'the ratings for "World
News Tonight."
The absence "has hurt us badly," said Burke.
; The network ,had brought in David Brinkley to take over for
him. . . ' . ; -;
Since Reynolds' illness, "World News Tonight" had dropped j
from second to third in the audience ratings behind the "NBC
Nightly News" and the "CBS Evening News."
Reynolds once described his job' on news specials as a "traffic
cop,' bur correspondents who worked with him gave him more
credit. " " - . '""'.
"He's very passionate about stories," said Brit Hume. "He
wants to be good. He gets everybody else up."
Reynolds would occasionally show his emotions while anchoring.
When President Reagan was wounded in an assasination attempt
in 1982, all three networks had the report that presidential press
secretary James Brady, who was severely wounded, had died.
Reynolds, who was anchoring coverage for ABC, was visibly
angered on the air, said ABC News President Roone Arledge.
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AIDS: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syn
drome, an incurable, transferable disease that
affects the immune system and leaves its vic
tims helpless against infection from certain
viruses.
Because the disease can be carried without
detection for up to three years, there has been
a lot of public attention given to it.
Dr. J.N. MacCormack, of theN.C. Division
of Health Services, said AIDS may be added
to the list of reportable diseases in North
Carolina.
"This is part of a national attempt to estab
lish a surveillance system," MacCormack said.
- He said that of the 1,700 cases that have
turned up nationally, only four types of vic
tims have emerged male homosexuals, heroin
addicts, Hatians and hemophiliacs.
"There is no reason to fear giving blood,"
MacCormick said.
Cindy Harreil, from the Charlotte chapter
of the Red Cross, said the concern people have
shown of contracting the disease by donating
blood was needless.
"There is no danger to blood donors," she
said.' . '
. Harreil said that the Red Cross uses special
ly pre-packaged, disposable needles so that
there is no chance of infection to donors.
Dr. Charles Vanderhorst, a post-doctoral
fellow at the infectious disease center of N.C.
Memorial Hospital, said that AIDS was not
very communicable.
He said that most cases of AIDS (75 percent
nationally) are contracted through sexual in
tercourse between male homosexuals, and that
the disease is extremely difficult to trace be
cause of the unknown agent in the blood that
carries it.
"Chapel Hill has a rather large homosexual
population," Vanderhorst said. "And of the
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contacts a year.'
AIDS can be spread unknowingly to many
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Dr. MacCormack said that of the nine cases
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