Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some places a loudspeaker would come over in a helicopter or sometimes they came up to a segment of a city and broadcast over bull horns that people were to leave their homes immediately because they were bombing an area. In other sectors no warning was given. Sometimes you had as much as a couple of hours; sometimes you had no warning whatsoever. Anything which ran out of these areas of course was shot as being a suspected Viet Cong...
...ceasefire is a cease-fire and that it applied to both Israel and Jordan." The Arab terrorist organizations, which have been responsible for starting most of the trouble, announced from the safety of Damascus that they would continue their raids, but King Hussein got the Israeli message. In a broadcast over Radio Amman, he promised to try to keep the terrorists from using Jordan as a base. "As of today," he said, "I shall not allow anyone to supply the enemy with pretexts and justifications for aggression." Whether he could make his promise stick was another question...
Prayer parodies also seem to be in vogue in Castro's Cuba. Last week Radio Progreso in Havana broadcast an interview with a campesino named Apolinar Hernandez, 60, who out of gratitude for his new life since the glorious revolution is teaching his children a prayer of thanksgiving to the bearded Maximum Leader...
Radio Pyongyang later broadcast what it described as an interview with Bucher conducted by North Korean reporters. In it, Bucher-or a stand-in-was asked whether his ship had intruded into Korean waters and whether his crew should be considered aggressors. A dull voice replied: "Yes, I admit. I have no excuse whatsoever. Our espionage acts are plain acts of aggression and criminal acts that violated the rudimental norms of international...
...bodyguard. Next, personnel managers and employment counselors discuss opportunities or show films on such subjects as apprenticeship programs and interview techniques. The kicker is of ten a success story - a former viewer tells how he got his job as a result of watching the program. Repeatedly during the broadcast, the phone number of the nearest state employment office is flashed on the screen...