Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...market for private telephone lines. And the three major commercial television networks have shown little enthusiasm to date for using domestic satellites. Since sports and news events originate in many areas, the networks prefer to rely on existing facilities rather than to build expensive new ones to beam the programs to satellites...
...still legal Protestant vigilante force, the Ulster Defense Association. A pathologist's report and the confession of his killer indicate that McCartan was taken to a U.D.A. where he was battered in the face with pick handles, stabbed repeatedly, then hoisted by his ankles to a roof beam and dropped head first to the floor below -all in an apparent effort to gain information. McCartan, his killer said, groaned out the names of one or two "I.R.A. [Irish Republican Army] members" before being driven to a remote spot and shot three times in the head...
Last December, Walter Stoessel, 54, formerly Ambassador to Warsaw, was named Ambassador to Moscow. Secretary Kissinger is not permitted to do to Stoessel what Presidential Adviser Kissinger did to Stoessel's predecessor, Jacob Beam: in 1972, while he was negotiating detente with the Kremlin, Kissinger sneaked into Moscow without even telling Beam that he was coming...
Open Target. Kissinger's passionate concern for secrecy, indeed, is one of the things for which he is most often faulted by his critics. Kissinger's treatment of Beam in Moscow may have been humiliating, but at least it had no adverse effect on U.S.-Soviet relations. On the other hand, relations between Washington and Tokyo have gone awry ever since Kissinger went to Peking in 1971 without telling former Japanese Premier TASS Eisaku Sato what was afoot with HI Sato's Chinese neighbors. Even if rumors of Nixon's proposed visit had leaked, some critics say, it would have...
This year the association thinks it has a more lasting solution. Instead of painting antlers, it has started equipping the reindeer with plastic neck reflectors that twinkle when headlights beam on them...