Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issuing decrees that promised some basic changes in Saigon's way of life?especially the stamping out of 15 years of American influence. "Anyone acting like Americans or participating in such American-style activities as opening nightclubs, brothels and other places of entertainment will be punished." Other decrees, broadcast by the government radio station, promised harsh penalties for spying, carrying arms for the purpose of rioting, creating disunity or disobeying orders. "From now on," said the decree, in an abrupt but obvious departure from the days of approved guerrilla sabotage, "everybody is forbidden to burn down public buildings, kill...
Drury never uses these descriptions. They are used initially by the liberal demagogue, ex-Senator Fred Van Ackerman. They are first censured, then pitied, then embraced by leading members of the printed and broadcast media who, confronted by the possibility that China will defeat Russia in their atomic contest, resort to whatever slogans desperation suggests to try to swing American public opinion behind the Russian cause. I describe this process step by step, as the media's panjandrums reluctantly but inexorably leave sanity behind and begin hysterically to raise the bugaboo of "the yellow peril...
...rare public statements by a Khmer Rouge leader came from Khieu Samphan, commander of the rebel army and one of the insurgents' top political leaders. In a broadcast carried by Phnom-Penh radio, Samphan warned that the country was "still facing a big menace." He did not elaborate, but an earlier broadcast indicated that troops loyal to the former government were holding out in remote provinces...
...remained unclear. Former Premiers Long Boret and Sirik Matak were assumed to have been arrested by the Communists, along with several hundred lower-level officials who first found refuge in the French embassy compound but were later forced to leave. Some of these may already be dead; a radio broadcast from inside Cambodia told of beheadings, but could not be confirmed. Political trials in Phnom-Penh were said to be beginning...
...fact that women are the featured subject, a sense of integration in the whole of the proceedings is lacking. For the moment, the intriguing graphic display shares the stage with other acts, including the WBZ-TV (Channel 4) program. "Woman '75," hosted by Pat Mitchell, which will be broadcast live every weekday at 12:30 for the two-week period...