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...handy cudgel with which to pound him. Olmert was particularly vulnerable because of his lack of security credentials--in a country that often entrusts high political office to its war heroes. During his compulsory military service, Private Olmert found glory as a mere reporter for the army's radio and journal. (At age 35, seven years into his career as a member of the Knesset, he enrolled in an officer-training course, emerging as a second lieutenant and polishing his political résumé.) Not that Olmert seems fazed by his past: he is outwardly macho and even arrogant...
...latest case of politicians being caught on-air and unaware. Here are other high-profile victims of the dreaded live mike, ranked on Time's blush-ometer. At the height of the cold war in 1984, U.S. President Ronald Reagan joked around while testing a microphone before his weekly radio address. "My fellow Americans. I'm pleased to tell you we have signed legislation today that would outlaw Russia forever," he declared. "We begin bombing in five minutes." Unfortunately, Reagan made the apocalyptic announcement into an open mike, and it was picked up by radio technicians in studios around...
...department's chief. Fauzi told Time his agency subsequently relayed text messages warning of the quake to about 400 Indonesian officials in disaster management, but there was little they could do: there were no alarm bells to ring on the beach, no emergency broadcasts to transmit over the radio or TV, no way to warn the people on the coast. The Ministry of Research and Technology, which heads the development of Indonesia's tsunami-warning system, came under criticism for failing to raise a clear alert, but officials point out correctly that the interim system is still far from complete...
...Lebanon's roads is matched only by his devotion to Hizballah. I would have trusted no other driver to bring me safely past the Israeli jets bombing our road. But fleeing Lebanon in a car decorated with the photograph of Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah while listening to Manar radio's "support the resistance" call-in chat show gave new meaning to the word surreal...
...Stanton is a doctoral student in history at Columbia University, writing her dissertation on Middle Eastern radio in the mid 20th Century