Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Footprints. Most journalists are ambivalent about the threat. Kraslow, despite his anger at the Post last week, shares Bradlee's general disdain for backgrounders. When large numbers of reporters publish and broadcast similar stories based on the same briefing, informed people can usually guess who the informed source...
Demoralized and in disarray, the Pakistani troops were urged to obey the "soldier to soldier" radio call to surrender, repeatedly broadcast by Indian Army Chief of Staff General Sam Manekshaw. "Should you not heed my advice to surrender to my army and endeavour to escape," he warned, "I assure you certain death awaits you." He also assured the Pakistanis that if they surrendered they would be treated as prisoners of war according to the Geneva convention. To insure that the Mukti Bahini would also adhere to the Geneva code, India officially put the liberation forces under its military command...
...next morning, Prime Minister Gandhi went before the Indian Parliament. "This morning the government of Pakistan has declared a war upon us, a war we did not seek and did our utmost to prevent," she said. "The avoidable has happened. West Pakistan has struck with reckless perfidy." In a broadcast at noon the same day, Pakistani President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan accused India of starting a full-scale war and declared that it was time "to give a crushing reply to the enemy." He made no mention of a formal declaration of war, but a proclamation in the government gazette...
...Martian surface and contributed the theory that they were the work of an advanced civilization. Belief in intelligent life on Mars was dramatized by H.G. Wells in his novel The War of the Worlds and carried into contemporary times by another Welles named Orson, whose 1938 radio broadcast of the novel caused widespread panic...
...cooperation of art and drama in contemporary theater, many plays are better seen than heard. But bearing the subtitle. A Play for Voices. Dylan Thomas's last play. Under Milk Wood, reflects the importance of the work's auditory aspects. Thomas originally intended Under Milk Wood for radio broadcast, writing the play for that medium at a time when he was attempting to turn from his primarily personal style of poetry to a more public form of expression. Although this transition did not apparently provide Thomas with the necessary artistic or existential answers (he died of drink several months after...