Word: real
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Cambodia and Viet Nam are desperate for change. Yet there was no real jubilation for two countries that have battled one enemy or another, Cambodia for the past 20 years, Viet Nam for more than twice as long. In Cambodia three guerrilla armies, not least the brutal Khmer Rouge, are spoiling to settle their differences with the Hanoi-approved government of Hun Sen. The departure of the Vietnamese promises only the renewal of civil strife as these groups struggle for dominance...
...eyes disappearing into puffy cheeks, a cervical collar ever at his neck, Marcos insisted he was too sick to travel to New York City for arraignment on charges of racketeering and real estate fraud. Still, he argued he was up to a trip to the Philippines, ready to win back his kingdom in MacArthurian style. Hawaii, Marcos proclaimed, was only his Elba. Everyone else knew it was St. Helena...
Dramatized "re-creations" of real-life events are suddenly everywhere. Tabloid shows like A Current Affair, Fox's America's Most Wanted and NBC's Unsolved Mysteries use them to re-enact just about everything from grisly murders to purported UFO sightings. Now the technique has entered a region some thought sacrosanct. It is the centerpiece of two network prime-time news shows: NBC's Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (which drew good ratings in three outings in late summer and will return for three more this season) and the just-introduced Saturday Night with Connie Chung, on which Jones appeared...
...real and only-looks-like-real are mixed with abandon, a viewer can get disoriented. Newscasters like Connie Chung and Mary Alice Williams introduce Hollywood-style mini-dramas one day, news stories from Warsaw and Capitol Hill the next. Real-life victims of brutal crimes return to the scene to act them out for the TV cameras. At least one actor from America's Most Wanted was turned in to authorities by a concerned viewer -- who mistook him for the fugitive he played in a re-enactment...
...creations, of course, are created equal. ABC's World News Tonight last July aired a dramatization of alleged spy Felix Bloch passing a briefcase to a Soviet agent. The scene, visually enhanced to look like the real thing but inadvertently not labeled a simulation, was a mistake because it was misleading: it made an event that is alleged to have taken place appear to be a recorded fact. ABC apologized for not identifying the scene properly, and network newscasts have since steered clear of simulations...