Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PANAMA CITY, Panama--Churchgoers applauded nationwide yesterday as Roman Catholic clergy read a letter condemning fraud and violence in the national elections, a message that even was broadcast on state-run television...
...following day the People's Daily, the Communist Party newspaper, came close to accusing the demonstrators of treason in an editorial that was broadcast and reprinted all over China. "This is a planned conspiracy that . . . aims at negating the leadership of the party and the socialist system," said the editorial. It called the students' independent unions illegal and said that new demonstrations would be put down. As a first step in the expected crackdown, Shanghai party officials restructured China's most outspokenly liberal newspaper, the weekly World Economic Herald, and fired its editor, Qin Benli...
...mobilize public support for Roe, pro-choice groups like NARAL, Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union expect to spend about $2.5 million through June on print and broadcast advertising. And at a meeting in March called by Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, the editors of 16 women's magazines agreed to step up their coverage of the abortion dispute. "I feel we're not holding our ground the way we should," says Brown...
...Airwaves: The Adelphi game was broadcast live on cable TV by the Long Island Sports Network (LISN). The LISN analysts should be commended for limiting their "Down Under" jokes regarding Panther midfielder Gordon Purdie--a graduate student from Melbourne, Australia--to one. However, their mysterious discussion of attackman Jeff Reh's maladies after his fifth goal was incomprehensible...
Moscow Beginners was started in 1987 by the Rev. J.W. Canty, an Episcopal priest from New York City who came to Moscow in 1985 to help lay the groundwork for the group. Meanwhile, Volodya, 36, a machinist, had heard about A.A. on a Canadian radio broadcast and had written to A.A. headquarters in New York, which in turn informed Canty that he had a taker in Moscow. The group's first session, held in a hotel room across from the Kremlin, was attended by Volodya and two visiting American members of A.A. Membership grew slowly, largely because the group...