Word: ambushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dangers of the star system become most visible. Television frequently has trouble distinguishing between news and show biz. Last week a CBS station in Chicago got into an unseemly row by criticizing the ABC network's 20/20 program and Reporter Geraldo Rivera's use of the "ambush interview"-surprising a journalistic target on the street, with cameras turning. Even when a malefactor has it coming to him, a viewer is left with the impression of a defenseless person's being taken advantage of by privileged characters with mikes and press badges...
Fred Friendly, once president of CBS News, regards the ambush technique as "probably the dirtiest-trick department of broadcast journalism." He fears that abuses by television newsgatherers may bring on a new public attack comparable to the one spurred by television's earlier quiz scandals...
...junta intends to finish its self-appointed task-administering strong military medicine-before handing over power to the politicians, even those of its own choosing. Said Evren at a meeting of the Journalists' Association of Turkey last week: "Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver this homeland to you perfectly clean, as it was in Atatürk's time...
...turn, evading a sudden roadblock, and escapes. When Scott concedes that the move was a "reasonable reaction," the student feels as proud as a small boy the first time he manages to stay up on a two-wheeler. Fear turns into exhilaration. He can hardly wait for the next ambush...
Most of the remaining British forces are taking up new positions in the rolling, sparsely populated countryside along the Irish border, where the I.R.A. is still dangerous. Prove hit teams retreat to remote hiding places between ambush attacks or, lately, between raids on banks in the Irish Republic to fatten depleted coffers. Partly as a result of the bank raids, the Republic has built up its own surveillance of the border region. In early September Prime Minister Charles Haughey's government announced that Dublin will spend $240 million to deploy more helicopters and spotter aircraft, equip special detective teams...