Word: radioed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show was taped in simultaneous sessions in Washington and Moscow. The participants responded to developments concocted by "control teams" behind the scenes. Koppel headed the team in Washington, and TIME editor at large Strobe Talbott supervised the Soviet operation at the headquarters of the State Committee for Television and Radio in Moscow. Koppel and Talbott kept in constant touch over an open telephone line. They were assisted by experts who helped improvise minicrises as the scenario unfolded, translated "hot-line" messages that flashed back and forth between the capitals by fax, and doubled as supporting actors when the stars demanded...
...work on behalf of Charter 77, a human-rights organization he helped found, Havel spent more than four years in jail. His latest internment ended last May; he had served half of an eight-month sentence after speaking on Western radio. The charge: inciting antigovernment demonstrations. It seemed no small irony that last week, largely through Havel's efforts, the street protests were halted to give the government and opposition some breathing space to pursue negotiations...
...become harder to avoid the conclusion that only the army or the police could have carried out the murders. Witnesses have told of seeing as many as 30 men in olive-drab uniforms enter the priests' residence, and one woman said she heard a voice over a shortwave radio say, "We've done it." At week's end the woman had been escorted out of the country by embassy officials and flown to the U.S. The murders were also carried out during the 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, when only the military is on the streets of the capital...
...Renato de Villa, military chief of staff, said the sixth coup attempt against Aquino had failed. Manila radio stations broadcast a statement from the president last night saying the "enemy is routed, but is not yet vanquished...
Among the interviews he has given recently was one to Radio Moscow, which was putting together a story on Gorbachev's meeting with the Pope and its effect on ethnic republics within the Soviet Union...