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...Center for International Affairs (CFIA) has received a formal apology from a Boston Globe columnist who last month quoted remarks made in a CFIA seminar after a CFIA official had told him that all seminar comments are off the record...
...Columnist Joseph Kraft condemned the trip as the "sleazy act" of a "contemptible man ... now betraying the man who pardoned him." Nixon's journey, Kraft predicted, "can only foster a deadlock between Ford and Reagan, which will serve to promote the candidacy of the man he really wanted to succeed him as President, John Connally...
Parity and Dignity. Kissinger's main objective was to persuade Latin Americans that the U.S. really does care, but not everyone was convinced. In Venezuela, one columnist noted sarcastically: "During the past few days, certain government officials have been very excited. We can't tell whether to attribute the excitement to the visit of Henry Kissinger or the visit of Raquel Welch." Colombia's left-wing weekly Alternativa, arguing that Kissinger was not coming to negotiate but to impose conditions, ran a full-page cartoon of the Secretary declaring, "The Guatemala earthquake was just a warning...
...Washington-based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (which says it has yet to receive any funds). Some journalists side with New York Daily News Editor Michael O'Neill, who argues that Schorr's act was simply "a freelance deal." But others strongly disagree. Chicago Tribune Columnist Bob Weidrich complained that Schorr's decision to sell the Pike papers made him a "journalistic prostitute." And a New York Times editorial bluntly accused Schorr of "selling secrets," no matter what his motives were...
Last May, liberal Times columnist Tom Wicker and conservative columnist William Safire agreed that socialism was cruel and against human nature. Safire damned socialism as "anti-city, anti-civilization, anti-freedom." But using the rigors of Cambodian socialism to warn Americans away from considering alternatives to capitalism here is dishonest; we face vastly different--and potentially far better--conditions for changing our economic system. But the press' treatment of Cambodia is no isolated instance; coverage of Allende's Chile, and of Portugal today would reveal similarly distorted coverage. Why? A.J. Liebling once said, "Freedom of the press is for those...