Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hanoi, where the A.F.P. has been operating for the past 15 months, correspondents must cope with a virtual information blackout. Newsmen are not allowed to leave the capital, and every dispatch must be shown to the Foreign Ministry before it is sent. A.F.P. cables can take up to 20 hours to reach Paris, where the news agency translates and transmits them in English, Spanish, Portuguese and German as well as French. As a result U.S. announcements of bombings in North Viet Nam usually scoop A.F.P. coverage. The dispatches sometimes sound prejudiced, since they must pass Hanoi eyes, but they...
BLACK COMEDY, by Peter Shaffer, looks at the light side of a dark evening in the flat of a London sculptor (Jordan Christopher) when neighbors, customers, fiancee and mistress collide during a power blackout...
...York, which bore the brunt of 1965's Northeast blackout, was spared when automatic relays opened to cut it off from the interconnection. That stroke-and the fact that it was a bright, clear day-saved the area from the near catastrophe that engulfed it on the night of Nov. 9, 1965, when 30 million people, over 80,000 sq. mi., spent up to twelve frantic hours in the dark...
...ques. In Beirut, supplies of laundry bluing, vegetable dye and blue paint quickly ran out as drivers rushed to darken their headlights. The nouveau-modern Phoenicia Hotel painted all its windows on the first five floors in blue so that some of its guests could have light during the blackout...
...pilot had pulled his pistol to threaten a band of fellahin in the delta town of Zagazig; the fellahin chopped him to pieces with their field axes. As night fell, thousands of youth volunteers, self-consciously aware of their new authority, poured into the streets to enforce a complete blackout on the capital...