Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resurgence is its schedule on Sunday, the night when the greatest number of TV sets are in use. With the powerhouse 60 Minutes as a lead-in, such tired CBS sitcoms as Archie Bunker's Place, One Day at a Time, Alice and The Jeffersons are consistently near the top of the Nielsens. Trapper John, M.D., a dim hospital drama, is the season's biggest new hit, mainly because it caps CBS's winning Sunday lineup. CBS has shown other new signs of life: modestly successful shows like Dallas, WKRP in Cincinnati and The Dukes of Hazzard...
...cable arrived from Ambassador Bunker with a warning that whatever the agreement, we might be sailing into stormy seas in Saigon...
...April 22, three tactical options were considered: doing nothing (the preferred course of the State and Defense departments); attacking the sanctuaries with South Vietnamese forces only (my recommendation); and using whatever forces were necessary to neutralize all of the base areas, including American combat forces, recommended by Ellsworth Bunker, our Ambassador in Saigon, General Creighton Abrams, our commander in Viet Nam. and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...seem to count for much. His Imperial Majesty the King of Kings became overnight an international outcast with a price on his head, wandering from Egypt to Morocco to the Bahamas to Mexico, discouraged from seeking asylum in the U.S. When Somoza desperately tried to telephone from his bunker to Jimmy Carter for help, the White House switchboard shunted the call to the State Department, where Somoza left a message. Cyrus Vance cabled him back, urging him to quit...
Assistant Secretary of State Viron Vaky, who completed a fact-finding trip to Central America last week, found that Romero had retreated into a defiant "bunker mentality" not unlike the one that gripped Somoza during the final days of his dying regime...