Word: station
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report last Thursday night, Cleveland Sportscaster Gibb Shanley set fire to a small Iranian flag. "I know it's not sports," he explained to his television audience, "but it is an Iranian flag. Anybody from Iran in this country who does not like it here should leave." Station WEWS-TV received 600 calls about Shanley's symbolic gesture, only 15 of them unfavorable. At the University of Texas at Austin, a student knocked over the table where several Iranians were seated. Shouted another Texas student at an Iranian schoolmate: "If you hate this country so much...
From these strongholds the guerrillas fan out across the country for swift strikes against Vietnamese army outposts and supply routes. One broadcast by a clandestine Khmer Rouge radio station ?probably located in China's Yunnan province?claimed that several Cuban and Soviet advisers had been killed in a Phnom-Penh airport ambush...
...OXFAM), an England-based organization that is coordinating a relief effort by more than 20 private agencies. An OXFAM barge laden with 1,500 tons of food arrived in the Cambodian port of Kompong Som last month, and two more are on the way. OXFAM has been permitted to station eight full-time staff members inside Cambodia. Robert Hohler, at OXFAM'S Boston-based U.S. branch, attributes the organization's success to its apolitical status...
...most exciting point of the evening came when a crowd of about 50 people gathered behind the banks of television cameras to watch the famed "shower scene" from Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." aired on a local television station...
...back streets of Roslindale are very lonely at 9 p.m. on a Saturday night. But State Sen. Joseph F. Timilty is hanging out in his campaign-hired mid-sized blue Mercury--parked in a gas station that probably never opens on Saturday nights. There is a very Greek-looking young man standing on the passenger's side of the car, leaning in the window, and briefing the candidate...