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Italy's Orlana Fallaci gets another probing interview...
...fact that newsmen in Tehran had paid little attention to an ambush by Kurdish rebels in which 52 Islamic militiamen were killed. But if the Western press is not to be trusted, why then did the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini sit for an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci? One factor, explained Nassiros-sadat Salami, the Iranian translator of Fallaci s book, Interview with History who served as interpreter, was Khomeini's acquaintance with a devastating interview that Fallaci had done with the Shah in 1973. The Shah, deeply offended, had it banned in Iran...
These tendencies were given impetus by an interview I granted to the Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, without doubt the single most disastrous conversation I ever had with any member of the press. I saw her briefly on Nov. 2 and 4,1972, in my office. I did so largely out of vanity. She had interviewed leading personalities all over the world. Fame was sufficiently novel for me to be flattered by the company I would be keeping. I had not bothered to read her writings; her evisceration of other victims was thus unknown...
...paid the price for my naiveté. The quotes ascribed to me, statements of marginal taste gathered together in what she presented as a conversation, were the most self-serving utterances of my entire public career. What drove Nixon up the wall was a quotation Fallaci put in my mo.uth: "Americans like the cowboy . . . who rides all alone into the town, the village, with his horse and nothing else . . . This amazing, romantic character suits me precisely because to be alone has always been part of my style or, if you like, my technique." I do not believe that I said...
Departing from her usual practice of zinging brash, hostile questions at world leaders, Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci has turned philosopher-novelist. Her new book, Letter to a Child Never Born, to be published in English next month by Simon & Schuster, is the monologue of a nameless, husbandless professional delivered to her unborn child. The baby dies in the womb, but not before its mother probes her own motives for childbearing and the infant's right to be born. "This is a story about a doubt, the biggest of all-whether or not to bring a human being into...