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...coming from conservative circles. In a forthcoming study, the Washington-based Heritage Foundation will take the U.N. to task for promoting a double standard on human rights, being consistently anti-American and antibusiness and aiding Marxist guerrillas. Calling upon the U.S. to downgrade its participation at the U N Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, argued two weeks ago: this is our chance to call...
Hindsight suggests that Harry Truman at first had trouble understanding when he was talking privately and when he was not. At dinner with 200 members of the Reserve Officers Association in 1949, Truman got worked up over criticism of his crony, Major General Harry Vaughan, and called Columnist Drew Pearson an "s.o.b." The White House purged the transcript, but it was too late. Gasped the Chicago Sun-Times: "The dirty phrase used by Mr. Truman has shocked millions who feel that every President becomes a symbol for clean-minded youth...
...week to assure wary residents that Britain was aware of its "moral obligation to the people of Hong Kong. Our differences can be reconciled," she insisted. "We can reach a solution acceptable to China, the people of Hong Kong and Britain." Most Hong Kong residents remained unconvinced. Said Newspaper Columnist Margaret Ng: "People here are not confident that the Chinese government or the British Prime Minister will put the interests of Hong Kong people first...
...fall evening in 1977, Tom Callahan, then a newspaper columnist with the Cincinnati Enquirer, was covering the fatal plane crash of the University of Evansville (Indiana) basketball team. Surveying the tragic scene where all the players and their coach died, he found himself looking at his assignment a bit differently from most of the reporters there, who were concentrating on straightforward news accounts of the disaster. Callahan was drawn to the quiet ironies, the little images that told the story behind the story: the neatly piled clothes that had fallen out of a suitcase, the bottle of after-shave lotion...
...could have been the last hurrah for one of Western Europe's best-known socialist leaders. "Much is at stake for Olof Palme," wrote a top Swedish political columnist. "It is a question of winning or disappearing." During six years in political exile, former Prime Minister Palme, 55, crisscrossed the globe as a spokesman for disarmament groups and a mediator in the Iran-Iraq war. This summer, however, he reverted to his familiar role of politician, as he sought to avenge successive defeats that have deprived his Social Democratic Party from governing the cradle-to-grave welfare society that...