Their avowed goal to bring about a violent Communist revolution in the United States, perhaps the Weathermen's greatest significance lay in their exploitation by the Nixon administration, which characterized them as typical protestors. These few...

Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization, was a U.S. Radical Left group consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society which formed on the campus on the...

Byline: CAROLINE LYNCH THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT Terry Zahn is looking down from heaven with a smile on his face. That's what WVEC weatherman Jeff Lawson, a former co-worker and friend of Zahn's, hopes. This morning, to honor Zahn and his fight against...

Ties to Ayers Not Fully Explained "No Regrets for a Love of Explosives," ran the New York Times ' breezy headline in its "Arts" Section nearly seven years ago. The newspaper was carrying a profile of Weatherman Underground leader William Ayers, whose "memoir,"...

In the 1987 movie "Broadcast News," Aaron Altman, played by Albert Brooks, has one shot at the anchor's seat, only to be beset by a rabid case of flop sweat. William Hurt's character, the slick but shallow Tom Grunick, later describes Altman's moist meltdown as...

A week before the "Today" show adds a fourth hour, rival "Good Morning America" has quietly expanded to three _ although few television viewers will notice.ABC began producing the third hour of "GMA" on Tuesday for its "ABC News Now" service, available primarily as a...