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April 19, 1999
MSNBC to Hold Town Meeting on Kosovo Crisis at Princeton
Princeton, N.J. -- "Crisis in Kosovo: An MSNBC Town Meeting" will be broadcast live from Princeton University from 10 p.m. to midnight on Tuesday, April 20. The event, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, will take place in McCosh 50, located across Washington Road from the Wilson School.
NBC anchor Tom Brokaw will be the host of the event, which will feature comments from a panel of experts and questions from audience members. That audience will include Princeton faculty and students as well as members of the Princeton community.
Panelists will include Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, director of the Liechtenstein Research Program in Self-Determination in the Wilson School; Jim Maceda, an NBC News correspondent who was dismissed from Belgrade, Yugoslavia; U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Montana, a member of the Congressional delegation that visited the region; Nancy Lindborg, vice president of the humanitarian group MercyCorps; and George Joulwan, the former Supreme Allied Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The event will also feature live reporting from NBC’s John Hockenberry in Albania.
Members of the media who plan to cover the event are asked to contact Mary Caffrey in the Princeton University Office of Communications no later than 3 p.m. Tuesday. Members of the media who do not contact the Office of Communications prior to arrival may have to park off-campus. Media representatives should arrive for the event by 9 p.m. Tuesday. Flash photography will be permitted until shortly before 10 p.m. Once the live broadcast begins, no flash photography will be permitted.
Seating for the general public may be available, but seating is not guaranteed. Media and invited audience members will be seated at 9 p.m. At 9:15 p.m., seating will be opened to Princeton students, faculty and staff with a Princeton University ID card. At 9:30 p.m., any remaining seats will be available to the general public. All spectators must be in place by 9:45 p.m.