The usual levity that marks the annual Radio-Television Correspondents Assn. dinner was suspended for a time on Wednesday night for emotional tributes to ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, who was severely wounded in a bomb attack in Iraq in January, and to Woodruff's predecessor at ABC News, the late Peter Jennings. Raddatz said that both Bob and Lee Woodruff couldn't say enough positive about the military personnel who saved their lives and also the two ABC News staffers who aided Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt. ABC News anchor Peter Jennings, who died in August, was honored with a round of applause following a video tribute that featured Jennings talking about his career and journalism philosophy.

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