Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incredible aftermath to a bizarre event, NBC television broadcast a tape recording of the Rev. Jim Jones' pleading with his followers to "die in dignity" by sipping a cyanide-laced drink. A few of the cultists protested. Some women screamed. Children cried. Armed guards took up positions around the camp to keep anyone from escaping. Other cultists, assembled around their leader's wicker-chair throne in an open hall, applauded as Jones implored in a high-pitched, agitated voice: "Please, for God's sake, let's get on with...
Next day, when NBC-TV broadcast portions of the tape, it became clear that the mass suicides were not entirely voluntary. If Prokes had known that the tapes were about to become public, said his tearful mother, "he would, at the least, have waited" before joining his fellow cultists in death...
...widely broadcast reports of Peking's cruelty, never verified by outsiders, were presumably designed both to discredit the Chinese and to bolster morale at home during Viet Nam's mobilization campaign. Hanoi radio announced that many children and elderly people had been evacuated from the capital, and that those unable to take part in the rifle drills must study first aid or repair damaged houses...
...into setting up an Islamic banking structure in which no interest would be charged on loans. Most hotels and restaurants began to conform with a prohibition on alcoholic beverages. X-rated films disappeared from cinemas, and television programs like The Six Million Dol lar Man will no longer be broadcast. A mutton shortage loomed as a result of the Ayatullah's ban on meat imported from Australia and New Zealand. Because the importers could not prove that the sheep had been slaughtered according to Muslim standards, he declared the meat to be "unclean and forbidden...
...confounded CBS'S programmers. They apparently had nothing else new to replace it and filled the gap with another episode of Alice, putting one right behind the other. Network executives, understandably miffed at Lear, sent out a terse announcement: "The CBS television net work was fully prepared to broadcast the new series as scheduled...