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...beginning of actual fighting did catch the network's attention, but it did not end the correspondents' problems with bosses who were entertainment biggies, not newsmen. No one had ever covered a war by radio, but it was clear to Shirer and Murrow that the way to do it was to record the sounds of bombs and guns-and interviews with combatants when these could be arranged-and then to weave these bits into a nightly broadcast. The Germans, proud of their blitzkrieg success in the early months of the war, offered mobile recording facilities. CBS refused, Shirer...
...results of the current cataloguing, scheduled to continue into next month, will eventually be published. Will they offer definitive answers? Unlikely. "We will create some new questions," thinks Montana Archaeologist Richard Fox. "We'll be putting more fuel on the fire." Custer, who could handle newsmen as well as horses, might have enjoyed the smoke signals...
...visit by foreign journalists, Hanoi brings out several military heroes of the Dien Bien Phu siege. Lieut. Colonel Van Luyen, 52, who commanded an artillery unit, shows the newsmen the refurbished French command bunker where the Viet Minh proclaimed their victory by waving a red Vietnamese flag from its corrugated and sandbagged rooftop. Farther out lie two of the eight major French perimeter command posts, code-named Beatrice and Eliane by the garrison commander, General Christian de Castries. After three decades, U.S.-made artillery, including 155-mm and 105-mm howitzers, which were supplied to the French by Washington...
...accused of price gouging. As the rock throwing gave way to looting, the Dominican Republic was plunged into the worst rioting the country has seen in 19 years. President Salvador Jorge Blanco quickly dispatched armored trucks and helicopters to back up police. Soldiers fired into the crowds. According to newsmen on the scene, several agitators suspected of looting were summarily executed. In a battle that lasted two days, 55 were killed, 400 wounded and 5,000 arrested. Property damage ran into millions of dollars...
...full confidence of the President." TIME described the issuance of the statement as an "extraordinary step." So it was. Never had so many anonymous people been so eager to reassure the world in such an intensive way that I was not only competent, I was also quite "steady." But newsmen, canny skeptics that they are, were stimulated by all this reassurance to ask themselves, and their readers: If this fellow is really all right, why do they insist on telling us that he's all right...