Word: presses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fired from Exxon in March in the wake of the Alaska disaster, Hazelwood, 42, is discovering how America treats those it deems to be villains. Newspapers and late-night comics had a field day with early press reports depicting a boozy Hazelwood leaving the bridge of the 987-ft. tanker and turning control over to an unqualified mate. SKIPPER WAS DRUNK, screamed the New York Post. "I was just trying to scrape some ice off the reef for my margarita," chortled comedian David Letterman, suggesting one of Hazelwood's "Top Ten Excuses" for the spill...
...left Hungary, Bush had a special demonstration of the new wave. When he arrived to deliver his formal address at Karl Marx University, it was difficult to find any sign of Marx. The lone statue at the far end of the huge hall was blocked from sight by the press stand. "Your people and your leaders -- government and opposition alike -- are not afraid to break with the past, to act in the spirit of truth," Bush told the students. "And what better example of this could there be than one simple fact: Karl Marx University has dropped Das Kapital from...
...most prominent antiapartheid leaders, the Rev. Frank Chikane, along with Mandela's wife Winnie, quickly called a press conference to dismiss the talks in Cape Town as a "nonevent," an act of "political mischief" staged by Mandela's jailers. In Lusaka, Joe Modise, commander of Spear of the Nation, the guerrilla wing of the A.N.C. that Mandela helped create in 1961, insisted that "only the armed struggle will bring the Boers to negotiations...
...PRESS: How reporters missed the HUD story...
...multibillion-dollar scandal during the Reagan years is now front- page news. Where was the Washington press back then? -- Time Inc. will start ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY...