Word: telecasters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marcos voiced his criticisms in a nationwide telecast in the Philippines at the end of a political campaign. Philippine elections, which took place yesterday, are the first held since Marcos declared martial law in September...
...well-to-do American dilettantes, but in 1947 Crosby inaugurated his tournament and thanks to the enormous popularity of its host, the event was instrumental in fostering the post-war golf boom. In 1971 over 24 million viewers watched the Crosby on T.V., the most ever for a golf telecast up to that point...
...battles began along the sandy Libyan-Egyptian border, 390 miles west of Cairo. In his telecast, Sadat insisted that Gaddafi-"that very strange person"-had ordered his forces to make border raids near Sallum (see map). In one such incursion, the Egyptian President said, the Libyans had taken 14 prisoners. "He felt proud of himself," Sadat said, "but he was playing with fire." The Libyans answered that it was the Egyptians who had been raiding across the border. Whatever the rights and wrongs, the Egyptians apparently reinforced their border forces last week and waited to strike, in order to teach...
...Also to be telecast in Britain on the same two dates and in Italy in five weekly segments starting March...
Police in Warrensville Heights, Ohio, were appalled last week when a live telecast showed Gunman Cory Moore where sharpshooters were stationed as he held Police Captain Leo Keglovic hostage. "They knew Cory had a TV," fumed Police Chief Craig Merchant. When Cory saw the broadcast he shouted into a telephone: "Everything's off right now!" Cory later surrendered after getting a promise that President Carter would telephone him. In a Chicago incident, a TV helicopter circled a hostage site, nearly frightening the gunmen (who mistook it for a possible police assault) into a violent reaction. Such moves enrage authorities...