Word: blackout
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...SENTENCED. Karel Hoffmann, 79, former director of Czechoslovakia's Central Communications Authority; to four years in jail for helping the Soviet Union crush the 1968 Prague Spring democracy movement; in Prague. Hoffmann ordered a media blackout to prevent news spreading about the Soviet invasion of the country. He is the first high-ranking Czech official to be convicted for involvement in thwarting the Prague Spring...
...that "it is now safe to live, work and travel in China." Yet just one day earlier, the WHO had issued its health advisory warning against travel to southern China. At ground zero itself, in Guangdong province, people seemed oblivious to the dangers because of the continuing local media blackout on the disease. Says a taxi driver in Guangzhou, the provincial capital: "Why wear a mask? This disease is a thing of the past." Li Liming, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, on Friday took the unprecedented?for a Chinese official?step of apologizing for China's poor...
...wealth of images is far preferable to the near blackout of Gulf War I. But seeing doesn't automatically equal knowing. Excitement, dust and dark often limited reporters' perspectives. "We seem to see a line of vehicles off to the left there," said CBS's John Roberts by videophone, on the move with the 1st Marine Division in southern Iraq. "Oh, sorry. It's a line of camels." Many important early operations, like special-forces missions, went on without media witnesses. And although watching Fox News's Rick Leventhal report while a Marine unit fired heavy artillery gave...
...Nanfang Hospital may have done all they can, but Chinese medical officials have not. World health authorities are frustrated with China's secretive officials for keeping quiet so long about an epidemic that appears to have first struck in Guangdong province back in November. After months of media blackout, Beijing now maintains that the worst has passed. Only five patients in China have died, they say, while 305 have fallen ill with atypical pneumonia?a figure that dates back to mid-February. But forays into several hospitals in the provincial capital, Guangzhou, show that at ground zero new victims...
While Bonds has returned to school and is now the operations director for Blackout Boston, an arts group for people of color, he said most inmates show the ill effects of their confinement after leaving prison...