Word: dispatcher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well as the Belgrano, the Argentines announced-mistakenly it turned out-that yet another navy vessel had been lost. According to Buenos Aires, a dispatch ship, the Sobral, had been fired on by British missile-carrying Lynx helicopters as it searched for a downed Canberra bomber crew within the 200-mile zone. The British said that the Sobral and another Argentine boat had been hit and at least one sunk. A day later, the Sobral limped back into the Argentine port of Deseado with eight dead crewmen...
...growing and now great majority in Britain welcomed the dispatch of the Royal Navy task force to the South Atlantic. But some in the U.K. are beginning to express anxiety about its use. Sending the force was all right, the argument goes, but using it is quite another matter. Would that be wise, would it be right? The question can be simply and robustly settled. "Covenants without swords," wrote Thomas Hobbes in the 17th century, "are but words." There is no point in sending guns unless you are prepared to use them...
...lively, news-hustling papers with just half, or sometimes little more than a tenth, of its circulation-though it is still thriving editorially and financially. The competition has bred quality, not cheap sensation. Paper after paper in Florida is graphically vivid, diligent in pursuit of local news, quick to dispatch reporters on breaking stories and dedicated to muckraking. Says David Burgin, a veteran of the New York Herald-Tribune, Washington Star and three newspaper chains, who was named six weeks ago as editor of the Orlando Sentinel Star: "When you assess the quality at every level, including the weeklies, this...
Publisher Joseph Pulitzer began his career west of the Mississippi, at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but for years there have been grumblings about an Eastern bias in the coveted awards he endowed. In 1980 the Los Angeles Times made that claim at length in a report by its press writer David Shaw. Indeed, from 1972 through 1981, papers west of the Mississippi won only 17 of 112 Pulitzer Prizes...
...leaders decided on a showdown. Dobrynin announced to me that Soviet U.N. Representative Yakov Malik had just been instructed to support a resolution calling for the dispatch of American and Soviet troops to the Middle East if someone else introduced it. This, I knew, would be easy to arrange. I just had time to tell Dobrynin that we would never agree when I had to interrupt for a call from the President...