Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What's doing?" the man repeated his caller's question into the phone. "Your husband is going to be President, that's what's doing." It was well past midnight in the empty Jimmy Carter headquarters in Atlanta, and Hamilton Jordan, the campaign director, was talking to Rosalynn Carter, the candidate's wife. She was sitting alone in a motel room in Dayton, concerned about her husband's recent primary defeats. So was Jordan, who was dead tired but sounding cheerful...
...Americans, who have been led to believe that crime (real or fancied) and punishment in the Soviet Union is largely a matter of the midnight knock on the door and a hasty trip to a labor camp, such cases at first glance will not seem very surprising. But in fact the U.S.S.R. has an elaborate and, on the surface, enlightened legal code that -since the days of Stalin-has customarily been followed. One of the fascinations of Courts of Terror is its depiction of a government in the tortuous process of subverting its own laws for reasons of propaganda...
Catch 22. The Congressmen were screening video tapes of Midnight Blue, an hour-long soft-core TV program that until last month was seen weekly on public-access channel J of Manhattan Cable Television, a subsidiary of Time Inc. Blue had been blacked out by Manhattan Cable, explained Vice President Charlotte Schiff Jones, because of a "catch 22" of conflicting regulatory requirements...
Manhattan Cable, which provides equipment and basic instruction to anyone who asks for it, airs some 800 hours of programming a month, including Chinese language movies, Boy Scout activities, League of Women Voters shows, block parties and a Bulgarian hour. (Only twelve of those hours went to Midnight Blue when it was on.) New York State law specifically states that cable companies carrying public-access broadcasts shall have no say in program content and absolves them from all liability for such content, including obscenity. But the FCC regulations, while also barring content control, provide that cable companies "shall establish rules...
...Midnight Blue Producer-Director Alex Bennett, who testified at the subcommittee hearings, argues that the show is not obscene, and its cancellation is "bully tactics because we don't have the money for legal fights. But we have contacted the American Civil Liberties Union, and it is now in their hands. If Manhattan Cable does not rectify the situation, we will sue." Manhattan Cable's Jones has said the company would "welcome" legal clarification, and the suspension of Blue is "a temporary move designed to contribute to a sober examination of the issues." She told the subcommittee...