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...Maclean's is not the only publication whose writers have ties to the Blacks. The Globe and Mail newspaper columnist Christie Blatchford, who covered the trial's early weeks, worked for Black at the National Post and Amiel at the Toronto Sun. Then there are the articles written bythe Blacks: the National Post gave Black a column before his trial and ran excerpts from his biography of Richard Nixon, while Amiel has continued her longstanding column in - where else - Maclean...
...simpler answer may lie in that writers who have relationships with the couple are expected to produce juicier observations than those on the outside. Blatchford, who says she stopped covering the trial because she was bored, scoffed at the notion that she was part of Black's "retinue," as another columnist at the Globe and Mail implied. But Blatchford did acknowledge that her connections to Black and Amiel could be seen as a plus by editors or readers. "It gives it, in the wretched modern phrase, 'added value,'" she says. In a country that has produced few personalities of Conrad...
...first break came from a Republican boss, Joseph Blatchford, who took over the Peace Corps in 1969 and needed a new secretary. "The job was a crucial one. I had 10,000 people spread out over 68 countries, and I needed a reliable, efficient person," he says. "I didn't ask if she was a Republican or Democrat. I wasn't interested because she was so good." She stuck with Blatchford when he moved to ACTION, the federal agency that ran the Peace Corps, and stayed there through three directors, building her own network among the people who sit just...
Others objected that a gift for grabbing headlines is often mistaken for leadership. Said Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce Joseph Blatchford, 42: "Historians don't pay tribute to those who are not activist but who are exerting great leadership nonetheless." Westchester County Executive Alfred Del Bello. 42. agreed. "The [quiet] person who knows how to use the complex forces at work today doesn't necessarily get on the TV screen, but certainly is responsible...
...Joseph Blatchford, 40, set up ACCION, a privately financed, youth volunteer group in Latin America in 1960-before John Kennedy started the Peace Corps. Named to run the Peace Corps for the Nixon Administration, he resigned in discouragement in 1972 because nobody was listening to his ideas (for example, giving college students academic credit and living expenses for a year of domestic volunteer work). Blatchford, an unsuccessful California congressional candidate in 1968, is sidelined this year by a lack of campaign funds, but he is helping Republican Houston Flournoy campaign for Governor. "Right now," says Blatchford, "the challenge...