Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apart from its eagerness to retaliate for the bombings, Hanoi clearly hoped to use the hostages to buoy its people's morale - a need demonstrated in a much ballyhooed broadcast at week's end in which Ho Chi Minh vowed to fight on "five, ten, 20 years or longer...
MISS UNIVERSE BEAUTY PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). Some day this annual event will be broadcast from Venus with a bunch of Martians presiding, but in the meantime viewers will have to be content with Miami Beach, Pat Boone, June Lockhart and Jack Linkletter. In color for the first time, though...
...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). A repeat of professional tennis, with Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall showing the amateurs how to play the game, National Football League highlights from last year, plus a live broadcast of the Hollywood Gold Cup horse race from Hollywood Park, Calif...
...young Charles, after flunking his exams, flew to Burundi, ostensibly to prepare for his father's return in late July. Instead, Charles fired off three telegrams to his father, announcing that he had seized power. Burundi's 2,750,000 inhabitants got the word through a radio broadcast from the capital of Bujumbura, in which Charles denounced the country's politicians for "dereliction of duty, stagnation, hesitation and nepotism," declared that he had dismissed the government and taken over as chief of state...
...getting into trouble." Blaming extreme rightists for inciting Charles's move, he sent a telegram to the youth: "The royal authority has not been given to you in the proper manner, and I remain Mwami. I am willing to forgive you if you have the courage to broadcast this message to the nation. If not, your acts will be judged by history, as you are courting dangerous trouble." The father gave his son 48 hours to reply, but he would probably have to wait longer than that -if for no other reason than that communications between Burundi and Switzerland...