Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been staged by "officers and some other crew members" who succeeded in taking command of their vessel for a time. But then the uprising was crushed, and the second sub entered Sogne Fjord to give help. The defeated mutineers, said Albania's Radio Tirana in a 16-minute broadcast that cited Moscow sources, were transferred to the second sub, and both vessels left the fjord, heading for the Baltic. The broadcast suggested that the uprising posed special danger to European security because of the nuclear arms aboard...
Norwegian authorities reacted cautiously to the report. Albania, after all, is no friend of Russia's. But preliminary analysis of the broadcast's claims indicated some circumstantial support. For one thing, there had been earlier Norwegian reports of six red rockets being launched from the fjord; defense spokesmen said that such pyrotechnics are a normal method of communication between submarines wishing to avoid radio contact. For another, Norwegian officials disclosed that patrols had made strong sonar contacts with at least one submarine trying to leave the fjord on the night that Radio Tirana asserts both subs did depart...
...become too openly ambitious. For one thing, Cambronne had recently been pressing to be formally named Prime Minister; for another, his avarice was hindering Haiti's attempts to improve its international image and thereby its chances of getting aid from the U.S. Before news of the firing was broadcast, Jean-Claude guaranteed his former éminence grise safety if he remained in Haiti. But Cambronne, long accustomed to breaking such promises himself, took refuge instead in the Colombian embassy at Port-au-Prince. He was expected to fly later to Colombia, and then perhaps...
...minutes later, the demonstrators broadcast a tape recording of serial warfare over a loudspeaker while chanting, "BBN come out the door, listen to your own air war." To their surprise, about a dozen BBN workers suddenly appeared, Calling themselves "antiwar employses of BBN," they distributed a leaflet among the protesters entitled, "Welcome, Members of the North Cambridge Vietnam Committee...
...made and lost a fortune selling washing machines, Bloom had been struck by Comic Don Rickles' ability to insult Las Vegas audiences and make them love it. Audience participation, he decided, could spark interest in the little-known medieval restaurant he had opened in London. The serendipitous broadcast of The Six Wives of Henry VIII on British television provided some free publicity, and after Bloom added the nonstop entertainment, the prototype 1520 became a success...