Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resumption of the bombing last spring, Nixon had taken his case to the American people over television. This time there was no TV appearance, no explanation or rationale offered. The first news of the attacks came not from the White House but from Radio Hanoi. Nixon imposed a press blackout on all but the skimpiest details of the raids, and ordered everyone from Cabinet officials to bomber pilots to keep silent. Inquiries about civilian casualties were met with the catechism, "We have targeted and continue to target only military targets." Reporters accompanying the Bob Hope Christmas show to airbases...
...victory over the Cleveland Browns in Miami's Orange Bowl last week, hundreds of other fans were enjoying the game on color TV in the ten-story Marriott Motel just two miles from the stadium. The motel management had evaded the National Football League's TV blackout in cities where games are being played by erecting a high-sensitivity parabolic antenna that picked up the telecast of the Dolphin game from a TV station in Fort Myers, 149 miles away. Taking advantage of a special half-day (from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.) rate...
...sources said that the U.S. Command news blackout was ordered by President Nixon...
...feels that some people have become too complacent in a job after a long period," said a Nixon aide in one of the few comments made during a week of almost total news blackout. Many higher-ups in the Administration have given their notice. Among those slated to leave: Presidential Counsellor Robert Finch, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, HUD Secretary George Romney, White House Special Counsel Charles Colson, Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Transportation Chief John Volpe. Ostentatiously absent from the round of meetings was White House Aide Dwight Chapin, who had been compromised by being tied into the Watergate scandal...
...Richard Nixon understood. For years the National Football League has forbidden televi sion broadcasts of a team's home games within a 75-mile radius of its city, arguing that TV would cut the take at the stadium. Now Congress is considering legislation that would ban the blackout...