Word: newsmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Newsmen working in Italy, England or Germany would not contemplate taking press cards from the Red Brigades, I.R.A. or the Baader-Meinhof," says Yoram Ettinger, director of Israel's Government Press Office...
...Lawn, of the President and the 50 or so people who made up the heart of the Government. They were to be whisked to the Blue Ridge Mountains and secreted in a command post under 600 ft. of stone, from there to run the war and the nation. Some newsmen were to be included to send out dispatches on presidential decisions, should any printing presses or broadcast facilities be left standing. We were ordered to stay within 20 minutes of the White House and near a phone. I brooded for a couple of days over the prospect of leaving...
...newsmen shouted, Kilduff sought out an empty room with a friend. The scrap of paper with its devastating message quivered like a leaf in his fingers. He lighted a cigarette. Then something broke. "I saw that man's head," he sobbed. "I couldn't believe it. I nearly died...
...extolled Bush's "enormous courage" in voting for the original legislation 20 years ago. Later the President used the White House proclamation of Hispanic Heritage Week to spotlight Bush's child-care plan. Joining the battle between Bush and Michael Dukakis for the Hispanic vote, Reagan met with Hispanic newsmen and assured them of Bush's "warm feelings with regard to Hispanics." Reagan barnstormed through southeastern Missouri last week, labeling Democrats "trench-coat liberals" and darkly warning that a Dukakis presidency would resemble the horror film Nightmare on Elm Street...
...violence. Stung, Johnson summoned a small group of reporters to an off-the-record lunch that began at 1:30 p.m. and did not end until 5:30. The four hours were taken up by the President's pacing, raving, justifying his action. When it was over, the numbed newsmen hurried to a nearby bar for a stiff drink. The most experienced of the group stared into his double martini and muttered, "That was really frightening...