Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visit battle zones continually." Getting there was a perilous ordeal in itself, and indiscriminate bombing and shelling made it necessary to take refuge in the homes and backyards of friendly Nicaraguans. The scene at Managua's Inter-Continental Hotel, headquarters and domicile of the foreign press corps, was similarly threatening. "Somoza flunkies were wandering around saying that newsmen should be taken out and shot," says Diederich. When the staff fled after the hotel had been designated a military target by Sandinistas in mid-June, Diederich and three other foreign journalists abandoned it for what they euphemistically called a "safe...
...this weekend's press opening, Kenneth Haigh's Prospero seemed imbued with a weariness that I don't think either he or the director intended. Haigh's load this summer is enough to tire anyone: when he is not doing Prospero, he is playing either Brutus (an even longer role) or Malvolio. At any rate, his Prospero is not yet a sustained piece of work...
Surprisingly, Jackson's one man crusade received fair coverage in both the English and Afrikaans press, though he has long been under attack for his advocacy of sanction against the Pretoria government because of its racist policies. Indeed, the decision to admit him to South Africa at all was cause for astonishment. Though Pretoria denied that he had ever been blacklisted. Jackson said he had been turned down for a visa several times in recent years. This time he said he had turned to President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to support his visa application. Said...
...when he was seven in the Peewee Quartet, a group of kids who sang for small change in neighborhood taverns. By the time he was 14 he had found his main prop-a seven-cent Ricoro cigar. "I'd go into one of those places where they would press your suit while you stood in your underwear. I'd put it on hot-I wouldn't bend my knees until it had cooled off-and walk down the street with the Ricoro in my mouth. Nobody ever asked me what I did for a living. They knew...
Undaunted, Yant raised $64,000 and launched his own daily, the Ohio Observer. The first issue had 44 pages and a press run of 20,000. But advertisers drifted away, some saying they had received threats of boycotts. "It was like a crusade " remembers one of the five staff members After a suspicious fire that leveled a garage used by the Observer and libel suits from the county prosecutor and other targets of Yant's reporting, the paper was forced to close. Creditors were beating on Yant's door, and one disgruntled employe even filed charges claiming that...