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The diplomatic cables from Moscow to Washington were sizzling last week with angry communiques. The protests, quipped one State Department official, "are getting so hard to keep track of, we're thinking of numbering them." At issue were the Carter Administration's continuing support for Soviet dissidents and...
Lodge's book, covering a shorter period, and dealing with international issues in more substance than Saltonstall's, seems to be constructed mostly from letters, memos, and notes of meetings that remain in Lodge's files. As such, it may be more accurate, and is certainly written in finer detail...
Wilson followed Moynihan home after the lecture, in an entourage that included a New York Times reporter who shouted loud obscenities when she became tangled in a camera crew's cables, and an indeterminate number of other correspondents, each clamoring for a word with the Senator-elect.
But Hemingway could also be charming, especially when they were apart. During one month's absence he wrote her 20 letters and half a dozen cables. He profoundly needed his well-bruised Muse, and as a Muse, as well as a wife, Mary clearly was hooked. At Finca Vigia...
Not that the three networks did not try. Altogether they spent some $12 million in Kansas City, and accounted for nearly one-fifth of the 9,500 journalists and support troops. CBS alone assembled a fleet of 400 rental cars for its staff of 650. NBC finished off a half...