Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Letters to the editor, phone calls to station managers, and man-in-the-street interviews convey the same message. Even papers like the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Phoenix Gazette, which have remained relatively uncritical of the President, receive letters of outrage when they run straight news stories about Watergate developments. "We did not elect the press," Reader Betty Noble told the Philadelphia Bulletin. "We feel more strangled by the press than by our politicians." Says Bill Eames, news director of KNXT-TV in Los Angeles: "Basically, what we hear back from viewers is 'So enough already!' " Station executives...
...that sinister, faintly claustrophobic ship of fools venturing on wintry wastes, those corpses that start mysteriously appearing, the urbane and ruthless government agent who is everything that E. Howard Hunt once hoped to be. This time, though, Alistair MacLean operates, not from some place like Bear Island or Ice Station Zebra, but in the American West (circa...
...billion over the next decade. Though the bases are scattered through 32 states, the economic blow has fallen hardest on New England; nearly half of the 74,000 jobs wiped out or transferred by the cutbacks were located in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The closings of the Newport Naval Station and Quonset Point Naval Air Complex and the exodus of a 30-destroyer fleet have lowered the personal income of Rhode Island's citizens by $307 million a year-a loss about equal to the economic damage wreaked in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky by this spring's tornadoes...
...Division of General Dynamics to lease from the Navy three seaplane hangars at Quonset Point for the construction of nuclear submarine hulls; eventually 2,000 people will be employed there. In addition, New England Electric System is negotiating with state and federal agencies to buy the Charlestown Naval Air Station in Rhode Island and build a nuclear power plant there...
...have questioned whether the price premium is necessary (oil chiefs say that refining costs make it so). The American Automobile Association, traditionally supersensitive to anything that could inconvenience motorists, worries that owners of 1975 cars in many rural areas will have to drive long distances before coming across a station big enough to be selling unleaded gas. AAA officials also fear that many stations that do carry the new fuel will not get the small nozzles required to dispense it in time: only three companies are making the nozzles, and one has been struck recently...