Word: cameramen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groomed representative of the Lebanese Amal, the mainstream Shi'ite faction that had in effect hijacked the hostages from their original hijackers, the two brutal gunmen who had seized TWA's Flight 847 and murdered Navy Diver Robert Stethem. The only glitch in this presentation occurred when reporters and cameramen got into a shoving match as they jockeyed for position. Quickly, the Shi'ite guards hustled their prizes from the crowded room in the Beirut airport, waving pistols and cuffing a few reporters for good measure. When the press settled down, the five hostages returned and pronounced themselves healthy...
...danger of unrestrained journalistic zeal was evident at the hostages' press conference. Photographers surged around the prisoners, shutters clicking madly, while other cameramen jumped up on the table for a better angle. Angered by the chaos, an Amal spokesman abruptly ended the proceedings, which only triggered more shouting and shoving. Militiamen pounced on photographers and reporters, smashing cameras and seizing tape recorders. Fifteen minutes later, after the journalists promised to maintain calm, the session was resumed. In another incident, a Lebanese Shi'ite driver working for Newsweek reached the plane by passing himself off as a relative of the hijackers...
...that's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite used to sign off his newscasts, implying you were getting it all, the good and the bad. But this can hardly be true when so much of the world is off limits to reporters and cameramen. From these areas the bad news filters out only gradually, and usually without pictorial evidence. The recent commemorations of two past wars prove the point. We relive the painful memories of American soldiers torching a village but see no comparable footage of the North Vietnamese committing atrocities. The result is a distorting imbalance. So much...
Although the debate centered on the politicians' stands on the nuclear freeze, the packed room of 150 freeze activists, reporters, and cameramen were there to see who of the more than 26 invited potential candidates would show their faces...
...presided over the meeting of the Politburo that approved (my) instructions." Karpov ducked, however, a follow- up question on whether Chernenko had been expected to remain alive throughout | the talks. The Soviets ushered photographers gracefully into and out of the opening of their session. The U.S., by contrast, herded cameramen out with a loud countdown of "five . . . four . . . three . . . two . . . one." Glitman turned to Karpov and said with a grin, "It's a good thing they didn't say 'blast off.' " At the same session, Kampelman gestured to photographers and said to Karpov, "Maybe we should shake hands," then leaned...