Word: newscaster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tommy's talk these days is unprecedentedly mellow. "When a network can't even raise its eyebrows in a newscast," he says, "you have to adjust. You don't get anywhere being angry. You have to work from within." His social commentary will be "softer," he promises. He will work "through indirection...
...Lawrence finally won his request for counsel, and MACV launched an official investigation of his censorship complaints. As the inquiry got under way, Lawrence found his flank under attack: the Army served him with court-martial charges for insubordination late last year. Lawrence, it seems, was preparing a newscast when a sergeant asked him to drive some soldiers to their quarters. Lawrence refused and, according to the charges, was also "disrespectful in language." Such a trait would hardly seem to fit him for the Army's next move, which was to make Lawrence a chaplain's aide...