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...ambushes and bombings against the Israeli army are the work of only a few hundred Shi'ites. But they enjoy the passive support of much of the population, especially in the impoverished farming villages. In southern Lebanese villages like Marakah, for example, a call to arms is frequently broadcast from mosques. "Kill the Israelis! Death to the invaders!" loudspeakers intone. Israeli troops dare to enter some villages only in force, and their armored cars and Jeeps bristling with machine guns are inevitably greeted by jeers from women and children...
...pointed Americanism is seeping into the cultural stream too. Right after the Los Angeles Games, ABC broadcast the premier episode of Call to Glory, a new series, set in the early 1960s, about Air Force fighter pilots. Says a network insider: "The campaign to promote
...Louis report came three weeks after ABC News broadcast a videotape that Louis had made available to Western media. While cheerily purporting to demonstrate that the Sakharovs are prospering in Gorky, the heavily spliced tape contained a sequence showing an emaciated Sakharov eating some food. If the scene was genuine, it indicated that Sakharov had at least briefly interrupted a hunger strike that he began in May in an attempt to pressure Soviet authorities into allowing his wife to leave the country for treatment of a heart condition...
Near capacity crowds throughout the two-week Games were matched by record television audiences; as a result, ABC paid the full $225 million agreed upon for U.S. broadcast rights. Corporate sponsorship and licensing fees yielded an additional $ 121 million...
...game will also be the first of nine Ivy contests broadcast over the Public Broadcasting System (PBS).' Dick Galiette will handle the play-by-play, Upton Bell the color commentary, and Sean McDonough the sideline reporting...