Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days after several of the families were notified, photographs of their sons or husbands were distributed by Hanoi, and then published widely in the U.S. Certain's brother Alan, an accountant in Atlanta, got the news from his wife, who had heard it on a radio news broadcast. Alan immediately called his father, who had been visited just half an hour earlier by the notification officer...
...Apparently alarmed by Nixon's pullback from a signing and Thieu's protests, Hanoi broke the secrecy of the agreement and broadcast a summary of its provisions, warning of grave consequences if the U.S. did not sign on Oct. 31. The disclosure was aimed at forcing the U.S. to adhere to the original deal despite Thieu. Scant hours earlier, Kissinger said that he believed there would be a cease-fire in "a few weeks...
...Daddy explained the next step in his "black is best" program for Uganda, in a much-heralded midnight TV broadcast from his official residence, with portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Mao Tse-tung hanging prominently if incongruously in the background. Sweating heavily under the hot lights, he started off with a diatribe against British policy toward Uganda, especially London's recent decision to cancel a $24 million aid program, which Amin dismissed as "whitemailing." Henceforth, he declared, all British place names in Uganda would be replaced by African ones, and the Kampala Club, a stuffy symbol of British empire...
...CZECHOSLOVAKIA is planning to establish "houses of political education" throughout the country by 1975. Meanwhile the Husak regime plans a broadcast blitz stressing "the ever-improving conditions under socialism." Its main targets: the 2,000,000 Czechoslovaks who regularly tune in to Austrian and West German television...
...Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents cameramen, audio and lighting men and other technicians. But now the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists had ordered its members-who include newsmen and the casts of live programs such as soap operas-to honor the IBEW picket lines at CBS broadcast sites. Such stellar AFTRA members as Newsmen Roger Mudd, Dan Rather and Eric Sevareid had pledged "reluctant" compliance. Would lightning strike? Would a faceless CBS management man rocket to instant fame as substitute anchorman, as did the unsung Arnold Zenker, then manager of the CBS news programming, during the AFTRA...