Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next morning, Moyers and other aides summoned some 45 reporters to a briefing in the U.S. embassy, literally impounded them when they arrived. Nobody was allowed out of the room-or in. Bussed to Sangley Point Naval Station across the bay from Manila, the newsmen took off in a chartered jet in the early afternoon. The President, 25 minutes behind them, changed into his brown ranch trousers...
Drizzle & Drench. With such lucrative fees available, Siday is exploring new ways to exploit the electronic hard sell. His latest creation is Identitones, Inc., a package of 50 "sound images," which has already been snapped up by radio stations in Columbus and Cleve land, Baltimore and New York City. Because of the similarity of radio programming, explains Siday, "it is very important that the listener know what station he is listening to." In addition to a six-note electronic theme that ham mers home the station's call letters in a dozen variations, Siday's package includes...
...summer of 1965, two Fort Worth gas-station attendants reported that a couple of Negro gunmen had robbed them of $3,000 in broad day light. Not until a month later did the city's undermanned police force pick up a suspect. Then Negro Truck Driver Ervin Byrd, 33, was nabbed on an anonymous tip. Though he loudly pro tested his innocence, the cops were satisfied, and the victims quickly picked Byrd out of a lineup...
Arms or Acquiescence. That gave rise to Fulro, a Montagnard nationalist underground movement meaning "United Front for the Liberation of the Oppressed Races." In September 1964, Fulro rebels captured five Special Forces camps in the highlands and along the Cambodian border, killed 50 Vietnamese troops, and seized the radio station at Ban Me Thuot-a highland town of 30,000 that serves as the Montagnard capital. Premier Nguyen Khanh tried to calm the Montagnards with enlightened promises of a bill of minority rights, but political instability in the capital made implementation of the new policy impossible. The Viet Cong also...
...streets were crowded, when a dozen an cient T-28s rattled over the city from the south. Working with remarkable precision, they avoided civilian targets, unloaded on army headquarters, the airport, and the command post of Royalist Army Strongman General Kouprasith Abhay. At the same time, a military radio station began broadcasting a declaration from coup-happy Laos' latest "Revolutionary Committee." The government had become too divided, proclaimed the communiqué, and the fault lay with the Royalists. Therefore, it went on, Kouprasith and a handful of other right-wing generals must be fired and replaced by neutralist officers...