Word: doomsdayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South Africa in building and testing a nuclear-tipped missile in exchange for a steady supply of enriched uranium. On October 26th, its Pentagon Correspondent Fred Francis told Tom Brokaw that "privately, senior U.S. officials are confirming that Israel does have a secret relationship with South Africa to build Doomsday weapons. The sources tell NBC News that Israel ignored Washington's discrete protest and appears to be expanding the secret relationship...
Except for the presence of a visitor, it was just another dry run for doomsday. A captain and a first lieutenant of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces simultaneously turned two keys that would, in wartime, send hurtling toward the U.S. an SS-19 ballistic missile with six independently targeted thermonuclear warheads. Watching from a corner of the cramped underground control center was a tall, droll Yankee naval officer who describes himself as a "country boy from Oklahoma": Admiral William J. Crowe, 64, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking American military official ever to visit...
...least, the deaths have forced Koreans to re-examine how their budding democracy is faring. In a rare front-page editorial, the moderate daily newspaper Chosun Ilbo exhorted, "We can no longer let things go this way. The current disorder in society seems to be accelerating a doomsday for the nation...
...President and told Kennedy that he did not plan to leave the White House and his family, attack or not. Kennedy reportedly looked up with that wry smile on his face and said, "That's O.K. Neither do I. I'm staying right here." So much for the doomsday scenario...
Where will the networks be ten years from now? The doomsday scenarios come in varying shapes and sizes. As the network audience dwindles, one of the Big Three may be forced to close down or sharply curtail its operations. Or all may survive, but merely as three players in a new, more fragmented competition among eight or ten networks (both broadcast and cable) of nearly equal size. More radical transformations may be in store. Tom Winner, executive vice president and media director for Campbell-Mithun-Esty advertising, predicts that the networks "will ultimately be program services selling product...