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- DIED. Max Robinson, 49, blunt TV correspondent who was the
- first full-time black anchor of a network news show; of AIDS; in
- Washington. In 1978 he joined Frank Reynolds and Peter Jennings
- on ABC's World News Tonight, but was relegated to weekend shows
- after Reynolds died in 1983. He fought to put more blacks in TV
- jobs and once accused the media of being "a crooked mirror"
- through which "white America views itself."
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