Word: broadcasting
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...what are known in diplomatic parlance as "small steps," such as eased travel restrictions on foreign newsmen and inviting Western observers to Soviet military exercises. More recently, the Soviets have been marking time on new Helsinki initiatives of their own, while rapping Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe, which broadcast into Russia and Eastern Europe, and Washington's public opposition to Communist participation in Western European governments, as violations of the Helsinki pledge of noninterference in other countries' affairs. Another complaint: the difficulty European Communists have in visiting the U.S. Concedes one U.S. official: "Our self-righteous position...
...publicly that his fellow grandmaster had a "poor chess arsenal." But Korchnoi's gambit seems to have caught everyone off guard, particularly his wife and 17-year-old son in Leningrad. They knew nothing of the defection until they heard it announced on a Voice of America radio broadcast...
...hoods to buy stolen goods and then arrest the thieves (see THE LAW). The first operation was known as "the Sting" and the second as G.Y.A., for "Got Ya Again." Tuesday evening Ford flew to the All-Star baseball game in Philadelphia, keenly aware that ABC's televised broadcast of the game was expected to outdraw NBC'S and CBS's convention coverage. (Indeed, ABC dominated the evening with a rating of 27.1, compared with NBC's 5.4 and CBS's 5.9.) Despite his reputation for being poorly coordinated, Ford accurately tossed out two balls...
Scientific contacts between Jew and Arab have taken place at international medical meetings. The most extraordinary medical dialogue, however, has occurred not face to face but over the air waves. For the past five years, Israeli radio has broadcast to the Arab world a program called Tabib warn al microphone (Doctor Behind the Microphone). Originated by an Iraqi-born Israeli woman named Ilana Basri and broadcast every Friday (the Moslem day of worship), it features a kind of "Dear Abby." During the 30-min. program, Israeli doctors reply directly to Arab correspondents who write in with their complaints...
Technical support has been provided by the truckload: actually, seven 40-ft. trailers. To broadcast from 24 different sites, ABC will be using 25 color cameras, including five mobile units and four Electronic Sports Gatherers-minicam-eras with backpack power sources. The ESGs, never used for live broadcasting at an Olympics before, should give ABC the flexibility it believes is essential...