Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Izmir home. By 9:30 a.m., he was sitting at Menderes' desk in Ankara, proclaiming himself provisional head of government and the armed forces. "I tried to reason with the politicians, but they were blinded by ambition. We had to act," he told the nation in a radio broadcast. "They ignored my advice. They thought the Turkish nation was a senseless herd." He added: "I have no intention, I repeat, no intention whatever of being a dictator.'' The whole purpose of the coup, he insisted, was "for the purpose of having just and free elections as soon...
Cooke's change of nationality seems to coincide with the troubles besetting his dream of creating a Canadian communications empire. His money-losing Saturday Night magazine has long been on the block without any takers. Last year Canada's Board of Broadcast Governors, after questioning Cooke on his programing philosophy, gave only a minimum two-year renewal to CKEY's license. Recently the B.B.G. left him among the also-rans in the race for Toronto's private TV channel...
...television. He has lent his faultless, icky-wicket comments to nearly every royal occasion since World War II, including the funeral of King George VI, the wedding and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. A merry, good-tempered pro, he was the BBC's first war correspondent, even broadcast from a Royal Air Force bomber on a raid over Berlin. In 1945, he was arrested in Berlin by suspicious Russian soldiers, won his freedom by taking advantage of certain physical resemblances, gloweringly insisting that he was "a Churchill...
...nurse to "wipe away the slobber that drools from his lips." But the U.S. was in good company. Chile's President Jorge Alessandri's democracy has been called "rotten," he himself "a servile satellite of the United States." Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi, said another Mambi broadcast, was "pro-imperialist, a man who rules his country with murderous bayonets," and Mexico's Adolfo López Mateos was the "betrayer of the Mexican Revolution." Colombia's Alberto Lleras Camargo, said Mambi, plotted the recent uprising against Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt...
Last week Peking's lone critic was silenced. Buried in a long Radio Peking broadcast was a brief item: Ma had "resigned" from his job as president of China's biggest university...