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There seemed to be no comparable case of a political figure's embarking on foreign relations during a campaign. As New York Times Columnist James Reston noted, "The Communists would do almost anything to cooperate with Mr. Jackson in order to embarrass Mr. Reagan." Charging that Jackson was "interfering with the constitutional rights of the President and Congress to conduct foreign policy," Reston also suggested he might be in "violation of the Logan...
JONESTOWN EXPRESS by James Reston...
...James Reston Jr., a journalist who chronicled the Jonestown story in his 1981 book Our Father Who Art in Hell, collaborated on the drama with Trinity Artistic Director Adrian Hall. The result is a some times unwieldy mélange of docudrama, sociological argument, fragmented monologues and musical interludes. This stylization moves the play closer to Brechtian irony than to Greek tragedy. Jones, played with grim conviction by Richard Kneeland, is not a satanic Pied Piper but a drug-addicted preacher with delusions of grandeur. His followers are not pathetic flotsam but all too recognizable products...
...York Times's Scotty Reston, one of the best journalists of his generation, still charges around the world at age 74, probing Presidents and Prime Ministers and urging all those old fogies in public life to retire to their ranches...
...Reston, and many others, had it figured out a year or so ago that Ronald Reagan, House turned 73 on Monday, could barely wait to leave the White House and get to the Pacific hills to savor fully his golden years...