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...call of duty for TIME foreign correspondents inevitably has its hazards. New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Gauger was inside the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, in November of last year when it was attacked and burned by an angry mob. She was the only journalist present, and her first-person account of the siege and subsequent rescue became part of a TIME cover story. Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White was in Kampala for this week's World story on the Uganda elections when he and Photographer Bill Campbell were trapped for two hours at the downtown cable office under...
...appointment was generally applauded overseas. Said a senior British diplomat: "Haig was Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington's first choice. He is in our view a highly intelligent, clear-headed and able man." Added a top-ranking foreign policy adviser in Bonn: "He is extremely well equipped for the job, and for us, it is especially gratifying that he knows well every important European personality." About the only dissent came, not surprisingly, from Moscow. An official with a worried expression groused: 'This won't help us improve things." Muttered another: 'Not good...
...What was Haig's role in the Saturday Night Massacre? When Nixon wanted to fire Archibald Cox, the first Watergate special prosecutor, Haig joined in a scheme designed to force Cox either to agree to stop seeking more Nixon tapes or to resign. The plan involved having Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, 72, a respected but hard-of-hearing Senator, listen to certain key tapes and verify the accuracy of transcripts to be made by the White House and turned over to the Senate Watergate Committee instead of the tapes. Haig got Stennis and Watergate Committee Members Sam Ervin...
...sentimental fascination for the raffish life of New York and Paris. His best-known character is Colonel John R. Stingo, a bombastic Tunes Square denizen. But Liebling is best remembered by other journalists for his enviable style. In 1972 More, The New York Journalism Review congratulated itself on its first birthday by holding the "A.J. Liebling Counter-Convention," a salute to the godfather of New Journalism...
Just about the hottest alto sax around, Arthur Blythe synthesizes and consolidates the disparate approaches of his first two Columbia albums-the first experimental, following trails laid down by Ornette Coleman, the second closer to the Ellington tradition-and, using two separate combos, fuses them with the white hot heat of his horn. Illusions is a furious exercise in musical release. This man uses his sax like a blowtorch...