Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the hostilities began, Beirut Bureau Chief Roberto Suro was on vacation in Athens, Greece. Quickly, he headed back to Lebanon, ordinarily a 90-min. flight but now, with Beirut's airport closed, a grueling, scrambling 2-1/2 day ordeal. Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart, returning to Beirut from an overnight visit to Syria, drove along the steep, twisting Damascus Highway. "As Bureau Driver Salim Karami and I went along the narrow road," he recalled, "we were constantly forced to the side to make way for the Syrian 1st Armored Division to pass through to Lebanon...
Watergate produced strange, wonderful double-entendre evasion. White House Lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt Jr. referred to the famous 18½-min. gap on one tape as an "obliteration of the intelligence." Alexander Haig told Judge John Sirica that the gap might have been caused by "some sinister force...
What frustrates him most, he says, is that in 1 min. 45 sec. it is difficult with a complex matter to "build a case for the point you make." Once when Rather gave him five minutes to talk about an Alaska pipeline bill, Moyers concluded: "On this bill, the two-party system was not up for grabs. It was up for sale." Strong stuff. Delighted, Ralph Nader's reformers sent every Congressman a copy. But listen to the CBS code of standards: The analyst's "function is to help the listener to understand, to weigh, and to judge...
...Falklands. By the time Haig returned to Washington, he had set an exhausting new record for shuttle diplomacy: 32,965 miles covered during 71 hr. 40 min. in the air on six flights between Washington, London and Buenos Aires in twelve days. And still negotiations continued, with no resolution. British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym came to the U.S. for two days of talks, even while the British fleet was closing in on South Georgia Island, a probable staging area for an invasion of the Falklands...
...video. Send a valentine. Take an inventory. Now you can even go back to high school. Video Entrepreneur Ted Brown of Torrance, Calif., specializes in the high school market: his small company shoots 110 hours of a school year, then edits the footage down to a tidy 60-min. Videoyearbook. Price per cassette: $60. No lunch money, please...