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...hearts and minds from voters wrestling with their 1040 forms. He also had his license to practice law suspended in 1969 for failing to perform legal services for which he had been retained. In any normal campaign, these issues would, of course, be serious enough. Writes New York Times Columnist William Safire: "If Mr. Washington were white, would it be remotely conceivable that his jail term and suspension from practice would not be pointed out on television by his opponent?" Yet his record is doubtless being used by some as a disingenuous rationale for voting against a black...
...President Kenan Evren, 65, has cracked down, sometimes harshly, on journalists, academics and cultural personalities who have expressed even mild opposition to the government. The measures have raised fears that the military leaders of NATO's easternmost member may renege on their pledge. Says the often pro-government columnist Metin Toker: "Whatever they do, it will not create an atmosphere in which democracy can function smoothly...
...Essay" on politics, distributed to more than 500 daily newspapers, is considered virtually required reading in the inner circles of Government and journalism. Says one admiring rival, Robert Novak, co-author with Rowland Evans of one of the nation's best-known columns: "Safire is the most readable columnist in Washington and the one I can least afford to miss...
...splitting indignation, yet on matters of moral consequence he can write with majestically measured restraint. He boasts of having taken the scalps of Cabinet members, congressional leaders and diplomats, yet he is quicker to offer a correction, or to let a target answer back, than almost any other eminent columnist...
Occasionally Safire is guilty of a more serious offense, in the view of the Times. Says Editor Rosenthal: "Sometimes he goes too far on innuendo, even for a columnist." For example, on very scant evidence, Safire has unfairly suggested that Senator John Glenn is anti-Israel. He couples such impetuousness with a merry disregard for consistency. He quotes with self-satisfaction a line from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself...