Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was no indication of a major switch in Thailand's close relationship with the U.S. But Premier Thanom did not telephone U.S. Ambassador Leonard Unger to explain the reasons for the coup until the announcement was already being broadcast to the nation. Only later that night did Thanom drop in at the royal palace to inform King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit...
...November 19, Jackson plans to announce his candidacy on an expensive, half-hour nationwide TV broadcast. In spite of the misgivings of his campaign manager, Hy Raskin, he will also enter the New Hampshire primary. Raskin wanted to concede the snowy state to Muskie and concentrate on Florida, where Jackson adherents are already engaged in precinct organization. But Jackson feels that New Hampshire is small enough so that he can overcome his low-recognition handicap. He also reasons that his political philosophy-a singular mix of the liberal and the conservative -will have considerable appeal for the New Hampshire party...
Before departing on her three-week trip, Mrs. Gandhi delivered a five-minute radio broadcast to the nation. In it she did not even mention Pakistan, whose troops are faced off against Indian jawans along both their eastern and western borders, and made only passing reference to the 9,500,000 Bengali refugees who have spilled into India since civil war broke out in East Pakistan last March. Instead, Mrs. Gandhi praised Indians for their "courage, dignity and self-restraint" in meeting the "danger" and exhorted them to do nothing in anger or haste that might worsen the situation...
...remembered clearly the bitterness of discrimination against Protestants. Said he: "I have not been so nervous since my wedding day." In every city, the meetings drew hundreds of curious Spaniards. The Americans also tried some door-to-door buttonholing, aided by bilingual dictionaries. In Lerida, the local radio broadcast spot commercials for the crusade 14 times daily, and in Cordova, the Baptists handed out 5,000 tracts...
...races along to a late night radio broadcast, McGovern--sprawled in a corner of the backseat--tells us about what he has to offer the voters of New Hampshire over Edmund Muskie: "I don't wait for consensus on an issue before I take a stand...I haven't waited for neglect to take such a heavy toll in Indochina. It was only after the polls showed that 75 per cent of the nation wanted to end the war, that Muskie came out against it...You can't wait for a popular consensus on an issue to make up your...