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From No. 10 Downing Street last week came a long-expected announcement. Using the tradition-honed phrases, spokesmen for Prime Minister Harold Wilson declared that "Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to signify that she will comply" with his request to dissolve Parliament on Sept. 20 and hold elections on Oct. 10. The campaign machinery instantly shifted into high gear. Party leaders appeared on television, and more than 2,000 candidates headed for the hustings to begin three weeks of intensive politicking...
Negotiators for the Board of Directors and the striking actors of The Proposition failed to settle a 17-day-old strike in a long bargaining session Tuesday, but spokesmen for both sides said yesterday that they are "close" on some issues...
Within an hour, Radio Ethiopia announced that the nation was no longer under Haile Selassie's "oppressive rule." Throughout the day, spokesmen for the coordinating committee explained that the military had been forced to depose the monarch because he was too old and weak, both physically and mentally. Further, Haile Selassie was charged with committing crimes against the Ethiopian people and with refusing to take measures that might have alleviated the harsh famine in northern Ethiopia, which has so far taken an estimated 100,000 lives...
Louisville's WHAS-TV puts on one-minute recorded statements from local spokesmen for all sorts of views 15 times a week. WGBH-TV, the public broadcast station in Boston, turns over a half-hour every day to nonprofit and other community groups to use as they please; its seven-month-old program. Catch 44, is booked solidly three months in advance. Even the networks have begun loosening up their nightly news formats. NBC'S anchor man John Chancellor last spring introduced "Editor's Notebook," an occasional entry designed, as he puts it, for "catching...
Instead, the Soviet spokesmen had a triple-barreled explanation for what did Nixon in: he was 1) victimized by a Democratic Congress, 2) weakened by inflation and 3) finished off by "brainwashing" of the U.S. public by the media. Excerpts from the Moscow telecast...