Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those disadvantages were compounded by a decision to dispatch the 28 planes in a "target rich" stream that gave the Syrian gunners a greater opportunity to adjust their weapons. "It's not so bad if you're the lead plane," says a U.S. pilot with experience in the Viet Nam War, "but if you're number five or eight, or worse, 28, you're going to catch hell." It seems likely that the two downed planes and a third that escaped with minor damage were hit with concentrated bursts of conventional antiaircraft or machine-gun fire...
...failings of journalists have been compounded in the public's mind by the perception that as their power has increased, so has their presumption of selfimportance. Says William Woo, editorial page editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Arrogance, insensitivity, sensationalism, the sounding of First Amendment alarms at every provocation-these have all lost the press sympathy." Such attitudes are particularly grating to a large segment of the public that has come to see the press as primarily interested in its own profits and renown. "There is no longer a prevailing feeling that the press is righting to right...
...crisis as depicted is played out over 25 days in May, during which the Soviets send 250,000 soldiers toward the Persian Gulf. The players decide, quickly and early on, to dispatch 25,000 U.S. troops to bolster the pro-American faction in Iran. An informal U.S.-Soviet contact is opened, yet seems to accomplish nothing. As Soviet troops keep moving south, and U.S. troops are endangered, Muskie's aides appear anxious to discuss the nuclear option, but the President cuts off all such talk...
...nerve center of the Police Department's glossy new headquarters is the dispatch room that sits, protected by a huge pane of plate glass, in the center of the building's suite of offices...
Despite its ferocity, the Globe-Democrat has won grudging general respect. Said Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr., whose paper was a frequent target: "The Globe-Democrat has teen a vigorous news source and a spirited defender of its values...