Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what may have been planned only as a show of force turned into a bloodbath. Soon armed soldiers and unarmed protesters were locked in furious combat. Ruan Ming, a former lecturer on Marxism at Beijing's Communist Party School, argues that a propaganda blitz mounted by the government last week to justify the Tiananmen sweep was an attempt to "salvage the situation and save face...
...film, was set to appear next in Loose Cannons, a comedy co-starring Dan Aykroyd. According to insiders, Walsh was let go after just one day on the set, to avoid upsetting Aykroyd. All of which may simply set the stage for another round of the Belushi media blitz. Anyone for The Making of Wired...
...Alaska, Dawn really does "take grease out of your way." Twenty dollars says that it will be only a matter of weeks before the Madison Avenue ad agency in charge of the Dawn account gets a hold of these quotes and we see a new nation-wide Dawn media blitz...
...mistreatment of Shi'ites in Lebanon and to vent his hatred of the U.S. and Israel. But U.S. sources say he has become obsessed with trying to secure the freedom of his brother-in-law Mustafa Badreddin and 16 other Shi'ites jailed in Kuwait after a 1983 bombing blitz. Mughniyah launched his subsequent kidnaping and hijacking spree to spring the 17 in a prisoners-for-hostages swap. Among his victims: William Buckley, the CIA station chief, who died in captivity...
BONN, West Germany-Secretary of State James A. Baker III, on his first diplomatic tour of West European capitals, has found it difficult to compete with the public relations blitz of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, a senior U.S. official said yesterday...