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WITH the horror of a nightmare, the U.S. is discovering that getting out of Viet Nam has a price that it did not anticipate. One longtime supporter of the American cause-sympathetic enough so that President Nixon granted him a lengthy private interview only last February-is Peregrine Worsthorne, columnist and assistant editor of London's Sunday Telegraph. Now, Worsthorne argues, the U.S. presence in Viet Nam "may have become more a curse than a blessing, may now actually be doing the cause of South Viet Nam's independence more harm than good." The problem, says Worsthorne...
Died. Frank Conniff, 57, former correspondent, columnist and editor for the Hearst newspapers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Conniff won a wide audience as a combat reporter in Europe during World War II and later in Korea. He became a member of the Hearst "Task Force" and shared a 1955 Pulitzer Prize with Joseph Kingsbury-Smith and William Randolph Hearst Jr. for the trio's exclusive interview with Nikita Khrushchev. Conniff's last major assignment was as editor of the short-lived New York World Journal Tribune...
Amos Elon is a columnist for the distinguished Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz. He went to Israel when he was only two, but he was born in Vienna, educated in England as well as Israel, and as a foreign correspondent lived in Washington, Bonn and Warsaw. He is therefore a cosmopolite who believes that "it is extremely hard"-and extremely important-"for one man to understand the nationalism of another." As such, Elon is a tough assessor of his own visions...
...admit Western newsmen "in batches," Premier Chou En-lai last week invited another group of correspondents to China. Included: the New York Times's assistant managing editor Seymour Topping, who has already entered the country, Robert Keatley of the Wall Street Journal, and the Times's star columnist James Reston, who will go in June...
Ever since she broke the ban on press coverage by crashing the wedding reception of Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower in 1968, Washington Post Reporter-Columnist Judith Martin, 32, has been on bad terms with the White House. Just how bad became apparent last week when she was barred from covering Tricia Nixon's White House wedding next month. "The First Family," sniffed Mrs. Nixon's staff director, Connie Stuart, "does not feel comfortable with Judith Martin...