Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the entire episode, the government had maintained an internal news blackout. As a result, Israelis were preoccupied that night by a drama of a very different kind that was unfolding at the exhibition grounds convention center in Tel Aviv. There, at a meeting of the central committee of the Herut Party, the main group within the ruling Likud bloc, former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon was challenging Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir for the party leadership...
...first major indication of trouble came when guerrilla commandos blew up power lines leading into the capital of San Salvador. The blackout began as election commissioners were handing out numbered ballots and ballot boxes for distribution to the local polling stations. Many officials simply left for the polls without their election materials. When delivered ballots failed to match up with local voting lists, both became useless. To top off the confusion, the election commission had delayed explaining the balloting system to voters until 72 hours before election...
...invades some place like Grenada, there will be reporters and photographers along. A panel of military officers and former journalists, headed by retired Army Major General Winant Sidle, has been wrestling with the issue. All the participants seem to recognize that the Reagan Administration's two-day news blackout during the invasion last October was not healthy for the military, the press or the country...
...others fearful of a new round of government austerity measures that would mean hikes in food and fuel prices. Before a precarious order was restored, the government had called out the royal army, cordoned off three northern towns, closed the University of Marrakesh, and imposed a tight news blackout that made firsthand coverage impossible. Official estimates put the death toll at 29 and the wounded at 114. Foreign diplomats called the figures conservative...
...blackout represents the latest cost-slashing move by former Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, 52, who left the Reagan Cabinet last January to become chairman of Warner Amex. It currently operates 121 cable systems in addition to the six Qube outlets in Columbus, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Houston and St. Louis. Under Lewis, Wirner Amex has embarked on such steps as an effort to cut existing cable service in Dallas, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. Even so, some analysts expect Warner Amex to run up more than $100 million in losses this year, on top of an estimated 1983 deficit of as much...