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...chief defender of Thai democracy is the country's sophisticated, aristocratic, Oxford-educated Prime Minister, Kukrit Pramoj, 64. The author of 36 fiction and nonfiction books and for 22 years an acerbic, nationally known newspaper columnist, Kukrit led an incredibly complex 17-party coalition government until January, when a controversy regarding the price of rice forced him to dissolve Parliament. During the ten months he was in power, he concentrated on building up the long-neglected countryside by increasing rice and sugar price supports, requiring banks to invest in local agrarian projects and pumping $300 million in direct grants...
Editorial writers, Columnist Murray Kempton once wrote, are the men who come out of the hills to shoot the wounded after the battle. For some time, many American thinkers have been picking through the still-smoking carnage and rubbish of the '60s, finishing off ideas -for example, Consciousness III and the millenarian pretensions of "the movement." This is not necessarily a dishonorable exercise, although sometimes it is a little too easy, like hunting from a helicopter. But there is a danger in it. A repugnance for the Yippie idiocies of the '60s can too often turn into...
Funseth also denied that Kissinger himself issued the quotes to Sheehan, as suggested by columnist William Safire in The New York Times yesterday, although he said Kissinger did meet with Sheehan "once or twice for a very brief time, perhaps 30 minutes...
...Shame. State Department officials were angered by some of Nixon's foreign policy pronouncements. Ohio's Democratic Congressman Wayne Hays claimed that Nixon had gone to China "to hurt President Ford in New Hampshire." Syndicated Columnist David Broder angrily forswore a promise made to himself not to write another word about Richard Nixon. "There is nothing, absolutely nothing, he will not do in order to salvage for himself whatever scrap of significance he can find in the shambles of his life," wrote the normally even-tempered Broder. "Nothing shames him." The harshest attack came from Goldwater, who claimed...
...Political Probation. The Premier has been subjected to unfair personal attacks. Israeli commentators have repeated his opponents' charges that Rabin drinks too much and makes backbiting remarks about even close colleagues. Wrote Ha'aretz Columnist Yoel Marcus recently: "Instead of inspiring, he is weak. Instead of uniting ranks, he divides." Gloomed the Jerusalem daily Yediot Aharonot: "A government crisis is looming because the Prime Minister's status has deteriorated...