Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mayor was in such a fury, however, that he turned down offers by NBC and ABC to be quizzed by panels of reporters. He wanted an hour to himself, free of embarrassing questions from the press. CBS, which had ceded Daley nearly half an hour with Walter Cronkite the night after the bloodiest confrontations, refused to grant him a further audience. But Metromedia TV, with an audience in five large cities, and the Chicago Tribune-owned Continental Television Network, with some 7,500,000 viewers, this week will run an hour of Daley's defense...
Wallace, who took a few days off last week to recharge his batteries in Miami Beach, has, in the meantime, never been so happy knocking the "pointed heads." He loses no opportunity to sneer at "pseudo-intellectuals" and the "leftwing liberal press." ("There are more of us than there are of them.") This week he will take his campaign to Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri, stopping off in Washington, D.C., to announce his choice for a vice-presidential running mate. The man most frequently mentioned: the irrepressible A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, 70, former Kentucky Governor...
...program be exempt from any of the budget cuts dictated by Congress this year. Though the ABM system is primarily designed to protect the U.S. against Chinese ICBMs, which are now said to be at least a year behind schedule, Clifford insisted that "current developments" force the U.S. to "press forward as planned with the Sentinel system." Opponents fear that this may even mean the eventual revival of the once-proposed (and rejected) larger ABM shield directed against Soviet missiles as well...
...National Press Club speech, Clifford also called for the retention of a large U.S. ground force in Europe, which until recently was the target of powerful congressional economizers. "The events of the past few weeks have clearly demonstrated that a significant American military presence in Western Europe is still needed," the Defense Secretary said...
With a wrench, the mood of Czechoslovakia suddenly changed. Resuming operations, the official press, radio and television began to speak of the Russian invaders as "the visiting fraternal forces." Overt opposition all but ended, and most Czechoslovaks did their best to tolerate their unwanted visitors. While they still felt great animosity to ward their occupiers, they nonetheless recognized that since they had not resisted at the moment of the invasion, it was useless to provoke repressive measures by acts of defiance now. As a result, the country began to assume at least a veneer of normality. TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath...