Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Journalists shook their heads in confusion at this latest twist in Iranian press relations. "They're either tossing you out or giving you lunch," mused one. But Bani-sadr's pitch for newspaper diplomacy underlined the crucial and delicate role the press is playing in the confrontation...
...representatives of Western journals. Moreover, the embassy takeover has been largely a visual story, dominated by chanting marchers, flag burnings and the like, and opportunities to dig and analyze have been limited. The print journalists have spent much of their time sifting the pronouncements of competing spokesmen. Said one reporter...
Barred for the most part from the embassy grounds, reporters tried to elicit tid bits from the students guarding the gate; and climbed to the roofs of nearby buildings for a view of the compound. After one such reconnaissance, NBC Correspondent Martin Fletcher and his crew were detained for several hours for "taking secret pictures of the embassy." ABC and CBS finally made it "on campus," as the compound was called, but the students they interviewed spoke so haltingly and solemnly that the results resembled a Saturday Night Live sendup. "A pure propaganda ploy," groused a CBS newsman...
...students' occasional news conferences were studies in frustration. At one, a droning student leader was interrupted by a French television reporter: "If you don't allow us to ask some questions, we'll leave." When many newsmen got up to go, the students loosened the format...
Shortly after the embassy takeover, correspondents began to feel menaced by the surging crowds, and many bought Iranian-style clothes to blend in. (One hot seller: a Korean-made khaki jacket favored by militant students.) Tensions subsided when Khomeini ordered his countrymen not to harm foreigners, but President Carter's suggestion at midweek that force might be used put correspondents on the spot once again. Back at the Inter Continental Hotel, the informal headquarters for foreign journalists, several Americans conspicuously began sitting with West Germans in the dining room and learning the words to O Canada. Others sang...