| Show National 8A Thursday June 3 1 999 Fire along the Standard-Exanin- er line Georgia-FIorid- a MARK FOLEYThe Associated Press Workers put out a hot spot along a containment line on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp on the Florida-Georgline Wednesday The fire which began May 21 with a lightning strike and has burned 53000 acres was being contained by 650 firefighters and an airforce of 1 1 helicopters and three water tankers HOT SPOTS: ia PBS newsman MacNeil offers new late show Press The Associated Victim of subway pushing not angry Tba Associated Press NEW YORK - A new national newscast from the team behind public television’s “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” is expected to make it on the air early next year So far about a dozen PBS stations have agreed to air the show which is being developed with The New York Times said Robert MacNeil the former “NewsHour” anchor who is working on it for MacNeil-Lehre- r Productions MacNeil said the second newscast to air at 1 1 pm ET will provide a substantive alternative to the “body bag” journalism of late-niglocal news programs Meanwhile MacNeil and Lehrer received Quinnipiac College’s Fred Friendly First Amendment Award on Wednesday for their nightly newscast which celebrates its 25th anniversary next year MacNeil retired from the show in 1995 Accepting their awards both men sharply denounced TV networks for viewing news as entertainment The late Friendly the former CBS News president and Columbia University professor who helped put MacNeil and Lehrer together as a team would be appalled at many news programs today Lehrer said With their opinionated reporters invasions of privacy and public leering many news shows resemble professional wrestling Lehrer said late-nig- ht ht NEW YORK - Five weeks after he was shoved in front of a subway train by a stranger and lost his legs Edgar Rivera says he harbors no ill will toward the attacker “I feel sorry for him” Rivera said Wednesday from a wheelchair at Bellevue Hospital “What can motivate a person to push someone on a train track? 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