Word: dial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Habit [Oct. 11] ends with the author's advice, "To reconnect yourself to the world, disconnect the set." To shut-ins and the handicapped, the good provided by TV is endless. Through my imagination I have been to sports arenas, enjoying every game. The pleasure of turning the dial to find the outside world makes my nights and days normal...
Viewers in Charlotte, N.C., who turn the dial this week looking for Tom Brokaw and Roger Mudd at 6:30 p.m. may not believe their eyes: in place of the NBC network's Nightly News, affiliate station WPCQ-TV will start airing Family Feud. And instead of the local evening-news lead-in, the station will offer Real People. Insists Lawrence Fraiberg, president of WPCQ's parent, Westinghouse Group W TV, the nation's biggest non-network station group: "This has nothing to do with our attitude toward news...
...Moscow Olympic Games produced an unexpected benefit for human rights activists: international direct-dial telephone lines that vastly increased the flow of unauthorized information in and out of the Soviet Union. Installed for the benefit of the thousands of journalists, athletes and spectators who flocked to Moscow in July 1980, the sophisticated French-built electronic switchboard enabled Soviet citizens to keep in closer touch with friends and family members in Western Europe...
...longer. After reducing the number of direct-dial lines available for outgoing calls and then eliminating them, the Kremlin has now made it impossible for anyone to call from outside the country without going through an operator. The move has produced delays of 24 hours or more, and made it much easier for the authorities to monitor all communications...
...Soviet telephone system is definitely overloaded and in need of extensive repairs. Since the Soviets own far fewer computerized switching machines than do most Western telephone systems, they have virtually no back-up equipment when a breakdown occurs. The Soviets claim that their modern direct-dial equipment has been transferred only temporarily from international service, where telephone usage is relatively light, to the domestic network. Said an official of the Ministry of Communications last week: "We will increase the number of lines and reintroduce direct dialing within two years...