Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...actually to facilitate the surrender. Ojukwu later claimed that the decision was his; in Lagos, there were contrary reports that Effiong and other dissenters had forced Ojukwu to go. In any case, Ojukwu departed with bank accounts in London and Zurich to cushion the blow. With Ojukwu gone, Effiong broadcast a call for a cease-fire over a mobile radio transmitter. "Our people are now disillusioned," he said, "and those elements of the old government regime who have made negotiations and reconciliations impossible have voluntarily removed themselves from our midst...
...report suggests that it should be possible to reflect conflicting sides of an issue without necessarily giving those involved equal time. In fact, says the report, "the belief that balance, regardless of merits, is required seems to have had a dampening effect on willingness of many broadcast news organizations to treat controversial subjects." Other recommendations for TV seem less realistic. Among them: that the Government provide its Corporation for Public Broadcasting with $40 million to $50 million a year for news and public affairs programming. (Federal financing for C.P.B. in '68-'69 totaled only...
...film is based on a true story. Center Union deputy and left-wing leader Gregorios Lambrakis arrived in Salonika in 1963 to give a speech. The city officials denied him a large hall for his speech. Instead, he broadcast it into a large square in which both his followers and large groups of right-wing antagonists gathered. Fights broke out between them. As Lambrakis left the hall, he was clubbed on the head by someone on the back of a passing truck, and later died. In the investigation that followed, a scrupulously honest judge (a freak phenomenon in Greece), discovered...
Report obtained and broadcast the names of five prominent professional players and one university coach expected to be called as witnesses when a federal grand jury in Detroit begins hearing evidence in the Dice Dawson case. Len Dawson, Munson and Sweetan were among them...