Word: communiques
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unless Havana's myriad censors slip up, these three men send out nothing that Castro does not approve of. Their dispatches are limited almost entirely to government communiqués and the anti-American salvos fired in perfect unison by Castro's captive Havana press. Although Castro keeps up the fiction that there is no press censorship, the Western newsmen know otherwise. Cables are often held up for days or forever; the Western Union office, staffed by Cubans, will not even acknowledge that a message has been sent, much less received. "Some times," says Harker, "not even...
...Secretary-General U Thant. At a grisly, well-organized press conference in Saigon, Buddhist leaders introduced a tiny, withered Buddhist nun as a candidate for self-immolation in protest against the Diem government. When one Buddhist spokesman who had studied at Yale wanted to pass out the latest communiqués from the pagoda, he would stroll up to a Yale-educated U.S. newsman and say: "Boola, boola...
...reader already knows about any event or subject. These days, when so many words fill the air, when car radios repeat the news hourly on the hour and TV commentators rehash what the camera has already shown, we see no point in repeating the banal rituals of the communiqués. Sometimes, as in this week's cover story, the most significant part of the news may have escaped readers too busy to wade through columns of testimony in those newspapers which gave the subject much attention...
...settled soon, while others could be deferred till later. This simply meant that the Chinese were ready to prolong the quarrel indefinitely. "If the differences cannot be resolved this year," said Peking blandly, "they can wait until next year." The Russians were less patient. They shot back an answering communiqué warning Peking that "the immediate future" will decide whether the split will widen. Then Moscow gave the Red Chinese-and the West-a pointed reminder. After all, said the Soviets, "we have a common enemy...
...COMMUNIQUé NO. 1," read the announcement from Miami. "Commandos of the Cuban Revolutionary Council have landed in different parts of Cuba, and the farmers are helping them. They are continuing the action, which will definitely lead to liberation of our country...