Word: eisendrath
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fact, were advancing past his window−just across Constitution Square from the beleaguered Moneda, the Presidential Palace−and raking the hotel's façade with gunfire; Chilean army fighter-bombers were streaking overhead. For a while, guests were ordered into the basement for safety; when Eisendrath returned to his room, he found machine gun bullets lodged in his ceiling...
...foreign journalists in Santiago, Eisendrath had a unique story to tell but almost no way to tell it. Rio Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch, having hurried from Brazil to Buenos Aires to be closer to events, tried to phone Eisendrath for two days with no luck. "My principal worry," Rauch said, "was that the extraordinarily tight control imposed on communications by the military junta might keep TIME'S exclusive too exclusive." Adding to that worry were the controls imposed on telephone conversations: "Calls have been limited to three minutes, and are a particularly exquisite form of torture: the three minutes...
...Eisendrath got his story out by combining his newsman's instinct with a piece of luck. While traveling, he had taken the phone number of someone living in Mendoza, Argentina (where at least 60 foreign journalists were waiting at week's end to cross the Andes into Chile). Eisendrath gave the number a try. The phone lines were open−and unlimited. Eight pages of dictation later, the Mendoza contact ran to a local cable office and sent the story to Rauch in Buenos Aires. Rauch forwarded it to New York City, where Associate Editor Spencer Davidson wrote...
Having been in Chile in the month of August, Rauch provided extensive background material on the present crisis. In one of his files, Rauch reported: "The only thing amusing about Eisendrath's predicament is what some other newsmen made of it. One of them asked Perdn's rival, Ricardo Balbin, whether he felt the U.S. was responsible for the coup. 'After all, a special correspondent for TIME went to Santiago just hours before Allende's downfall,' the journalist explained, 'and doesn't that prove...
...coup was carefully planned and meticulously executed, reported TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath, who watched the action from a window overlooking the palace. Early last Tuesday morning, armored cars rolled across Santiago's broad Plaza de la Constitucion to block the portals of La Moneda, the somber 18th century-style Presidential Palace. As army sharpshooters took up positions, at least 100 armed carabineros−Chile's paramilitary police−jumped out of buses and double-timed across the square. Their mission, according to the secret order of the day, was "to restore institutional normality" in South America...