Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Mohammed died, his first caliph, Abu Bakr, told the Prophet's mourning followers: "If you worship Mohammed, Mohammed has died. But if you worship Allah, he is alive and never will die." Throughout the Middle East, a variation of that aphorism was broadcast over Arab radios last week: "If you worship Gamal, Gamal is dead. But if you worship the ideas of Gamal Abdel Nasser, they are alive and will never die." Nasser had many ideas, not all of them worth preserving. The future of the Middle East may thus depend on which the Arab world jettisons and which...
...nationally broadcast speech last night, President Nixon proposed an immediate standstill cease-fire in Indochina as a "major new initiative for peace...
Even as Nasser Iay dying in a Cairo suburb, the cease-fire between Jordan and Arab guerrillas he had worked out at a Sunday summit conference of Arab leaders appeared near collapse. The more radical guerrilla factions broadcast criticism of the agreement, which had been worked out with moderate guerrilla Yasir Arafat. Without Nasser's prestige behind it, the peace is even more tenuous...
...Evil. Outsiders might assume that the very laying of such charges by the FCC could lead to the suspension of the broadcasting license of WPIX, a subsidiary of the New York Daily News. In fact, even if the charges are proved, the FCC may not take any action at all. The commission has the authority to revoke radio-TV licenses in such cases, and, every three years, it can choose not to renew the license of a station that has failed to "serve the public interest." But, as broadcast reformers have long pointed out disgustedly, the commission has not rejected...
...Yorkers that includes Harry Belafonte and is headed by former NBC Vice President Lawrence K. Grossman. Defending themselves against Forum, WPIX executives have maintained that they were unaware of the news doctoring. As for the shortage of news coverage, they claim that "the public is surfeited with broadcast news." But since the Forum challenge, WPIX has doubled its news staff and air time and rushed to schedule community shows like Black Pride, Puerto Rican New Yorker, Jewish Dimension and Aprenda Ingles (Learn English). Many stations around the country, frightened by the WPIX and other challenges, have also upgraded their local...