Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allowed the fishing boats to proceed into our waters and thus created an incident that would give him an excuse to focus world attention on Guantanamo by cutting off its water supply. His denials are refuted by monitored radio messages between the boats and Havana and President Dortico's broadcast announcing claims to the base at a time 'convenient' to Cuba...
Thus, only three months after the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Big Minh's regime was itself overturned in a bloodless coup that was so well planned and unexpected that most Saigon citizens first heard of it from a government broadcast 16 hours later. Arrested with Minh were Commander in Chief General Tran Van Don; General Le Van Kim, chief of the joint general staff; Interior Minister General Ton That Dinh; and National Police Chief General Mai Huu Xuan...
...radio grew, it was CBS's energetic young president who fed it more new ideas than anyone else. Paley introduced the Columbia Workshop, which broadcast the early works of Thornton Wilder and W. H. Auden. And as World War II began, he initiated the practice of fracturing news programs into brief reports from scattered capitals. After the war-in which he served as colonel in charge of psychological warfare under Dwight D. Eisenhower-he made one of the strongest moves in broadcasting history when he took control of programming away from advertising agencies and outside packagers. From then...
...Edwin M. Martin had reached what sounded like an encouraging agreement. Under the arrangement, Panama would resume diplomatic relations with the U.S. "as quickly as possible," then within 30 days both countries would sit down to review "all existing matters" of conflict. But not long after the communique was broadcast, everything came unstuck. Claiming victory, Chiari announced that the U.S. was committed to renegotiate the original 1903 treaty. The U.S. vehemently denied this, held that the agreement was for "discussions" only, with nothing promised in advance...
Trills & Cackles. Dr. Baeumer's chick-talk tapes, which are considered classics in animal-behavior circles, have been played at universities in many countries and broadcast over BBC. The genial doctor himself has mastered nearly all the nuances of chicken language and can play a weighty role in any chicken society. He knows the loneliness cries of young chicks separated from their mother ("Pieep-pieep-pieep") and their terror trills-a high-pitched "Trr-trr." Both hens and roosters make "frightened" cackles when first they sense danger. After the danger passes, their cackling is full-throated and rhythmical...