Word: granadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scenario was all too familiar. As U.S. Navy Captain William E. Nordeen, 51, a military attache at the American embassy in Athens, was setting out for work in his bulletproof Ford Granada last week, the morning calm was shattered by an explosion. A bomb planted in a Toyota sedan parked near Nordeen's home had been detonated by remote control as he drove by. The blast hurled Nordeen's car across the street; the captain's decapitated body was found more than 100 ft. away in the yard of an abandoned house...
REAGAN has always been a "Can Do" president. A touch of turmoil in Granada? Send troops. Problems with hostages in Lebanon? Send arms to Iran...
...after crude signals began emerging from America's first regularly transmitting station, in Schenectady, N.Y., TV has stopped to take its longest, most comprehensive look at itself. Television, a series of eight hour-long documentaries exploring the medium's history, originated as a 13- part program on Britain's Granada Television. It has been adapted and Americanized under the aegis of two PBS stations, Los Angeles' KCET and New York City's WNET. Roughly two-thirds of the material in the U.S. version is new, including clips, interviews with key figures from TV's past and narration by former...
Gorbachev told Perle he had seen a new film, from Britain's Granada television and shown last week on PBS, that dramatized the Reykjavik summit. "The fellow who played you lost a lot of weight," laughed Gorbachev to the pleasantly padded Perle, who relished the notoriety...
Once Reagan had established a symbolic and rhetorical framework in which to function, he had only to flex his military muscles slightly to intimidate. Granada may not have been an impressive target, but it showed Reagan's apparent willingness to use U.S. military might to achieve U.S. political objectives...