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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paragraphs, she was appalled. Says Crawford: "At no time did Brzezinski do anything, either physically or verbally, that was improper or that could be interpreted as improper by anyone." He had sent the picture to her inscribed: "Clare, I really shouldn't! Zbig." Brzezinski was outraged at the Post's embroidery on his little sally. He and White House Press Secretary Jody Powell went to see the President. Carter was furious. Said he: "Go ahead and deal with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Brzezinski's Zipper Was Up | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Powell asked Crawford to the White House that afternoon to meet with himself, Brzezinski, White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler and Jerrold Schecter, Brzezinski's press secretary, to get the facts. On Powell's summons, Post Style Section Editor Shelby Coffey arrived with a lawyer. The paper printed its retraction the next day. (Many of the characterizations in Quinn's series are true. Though known as an exemplary husband and father, Brzezinski is notoriously vain and flirtatious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Brzezinski's Zipper Was Up | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...week ended with recriminations and bruised feelings all around, not to mention a large waste of official Washington's time. Brzezinski retained a lawyer to explore the possibility of a libel suit. At the Post, Executive Editor Ben Bradlee defended the series by Quinn, who happens to be his wife of 14 months, as a "son of a bitch of a good story." He described the photograph as "very suggestive." At the White House, which has lately had frosty relations with .the Post, the retraction was a delicious victory. Said one top aide: "This is the newspaper they made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Brzezinski's Zipper Was Up | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...lawyers until after the defendant has been convicted and his automatic appeal has gone to the state supreme court. Once that appeal has been heard, the state no longer has an obligation to provide a lawyer, leaving most of the condemned on their own if they wish to seek post-conviction remedies in state and federal courts; most lack the money to hire their own attorneys. If the prisoner pursues the entire series of possible petitions, appeals and rehearings, the process can take anywhere from five to six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Queen of Death Row | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...bung, and their torturous legal battles after capture. But there are enough tantalizing loose ends in the book to make it clear that Lindsey is describing life, not art. Why, for instance, did TRW put a 21-year-old, $140-a-week college dropout in such a sensitive post? Did the leaks really damage U.S. security? Perhaps Boyce and Lee actually were being used by the CIA to spread false evidence. If not, concludes Lindsey, then "the affair of the snowman and the spy who called himself Falcon was an episode that demonstrated amazing ineptitude on the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loose Ends | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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