Word: broadcasting
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Dukakis, who is leading in the most recent polls of the Lone Star State, delivered a reading in Spanish at a Roman Catholic mass before a largely Hispanic congregation at the San Fernando Cathedral, the oldest cathedral in the country. The ceremony is regularly broadcast across the South on a Spanish-language radio network...
...hijack crisis began with a rumor broadcast on CNN that top Bob Dole Advisers David Keene and Donald Devine had seized control of the chaotic campaign by taking over the candidate's plane. Campaign Chairman Bill Brock was vexed enough to fly from Washington in order to confront Keene, the apparent ringleader, in Orlando, near Disney World...
...Panama certain that it would take government pressure to bring Noriega down, Delvalle taped his ten-minute address the day before it was shown. U.S. Ambassador Arthur Davis assured the President that he and his family could count on American protection after the speech aired. The day of the broadcast, Delvalle sent his wife and three children to live in the U.S. embassy. He went back to his modest one-story home, which was protected by Panamanian troops...
...second day, the strike was marked by violence in a middle-class neighborhood near the banking district. On Tuesday, security agents destroyed an opposition radio station in the neighborhood, apparently because it broadcast an appeal for anti-Noriega demonstrations...
...showdown had all the breathless drama that readers of the tabloid New York $ Post (circ. 480,000) have come to expect. Australian-born Media Baron Rupert Murdoch, selling the Post to comply with a federal ban on owning a newspaper and broadcast station in the same city, had threatened to shut down the paper unless unions agreed to $24 million in cost reductions. Murdoch said he needed the cuts to complete the sale of the paper to New York Real Estate Developer Peter Kalikow for $37 million...