Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crawling on hands and knees. Meanwhile the Communists freed an Illinois-born engineer, Arthur Krause, 29, captured 5½ months ago; his job had been to advise the U.S. military on construction of roads and airstrips. But the Reds let him go only after Krause signed a letter, later broadcast by Radio Hanoi, criticizing the U.S. war effort in South Viet...
...stake was the World Club soccer championship-Santos of Brazil v. Milan of Italy-and all Brazil braced for the familiar frenzy. Work came to a standstill; every radio and TV set was tuned to the broadcast. In Brasilia President Joao Goulart canceled all appointments and camped by his radio; congressional committees recessed; Alliance for Progress meetings in Sao Paulo were scheduled around game time. And in Rio 150,000 passionate souls, every man jack of them willing to part with his last cruzeiro, squeezed into Maracana Stadium for the games. Games? It was more like a Latin American madness...
Outrage & Loss. Newspapers had their greatest impact beyond television's reach, and there they brought the message home as no transitory broadcast could ever do. In Munich, crowds waiting impatiently for the first editions broke into scuffles when the supply proved inadequate; in Rio, beleaguered news vendors called for police protection. Dailies in South Korea's capital, Seoul, were trapped by a time differential, worked all night with skeleton staffs to publish extras at dawn...
Foreign policy and civil rights emerged--not surprisingly--as the big unanswered questions about the new President, Lyndon B. Johnson, as four Harvard professors and three Nieman Fellows discussed the assassination of President Kennedy on a special WHRB broadcast last night...
...message to the Vietnamese generals two days after their coup, the Cambodian government listed five conditions for the continuation of normal diplomatic relations. Among them were the demands that the new government make no claims on Cambodian territory and that it give no more aid to Cambodian robels "who broadcast from South Vietnam...