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...typical Sunday in the New York Times. The lead editorial urged limitation of U.S. forces in Viet Nam and endorsed the idea of "an interim national government acceptable to both sides." Columnist James Reston, also questioning U.S. policy in Viet Nam, brooded over the "gap between the evangelical rhetoric of official Washington and the political realities of the world." The lead letter in the letters-to-the-editor column, written by an assistant professor of humanities, excoriated the U.S. Government for its "blind antiCommunism" and detected a "nascent war psychosis" in the American public...
...criticize the U.S. position there. He's been to Vietnam seven times, written three books on the subject, knows Ho Chi Minh, and was press attache in 1946 to General Leclerc in Saigon. Since then, he has become a Grand Reporter for Le Monde--a sort of French James Reston. And he has been Le Monde's man-on-the-spot at numerous major crises: the abduction of Ben Bella; the assassination of Diem; the 1960 conference of heads of state...
...greatly improved and broadened their news coverage. This week Pulliam receives the University of Arizona's John Peter Zenger Award* for "distinguished service in support of freedom of the press and the people's right to know." (Among previous recipients: the New York Times's James Reston and Washington Post Editor James Russell Wiggins...
...Reston arrived in Moscow hoping for a rational, civilized tour d'horizon- and found himself face to face with a fishwifely propaganda harangue. "It seems, sir, both you and we are expecting some big news from up there tonight," began Reston vaguely enough. "What do you call 'Up there?' " snapped Kosygin. "Do you mean from God?" Reston only meant space shots-the U.S. Gemini 7 and the Soviet Luna 8-but the mood had been struck. Despite Reston's attempts at ingratiation ("I agree . . ." "I was certainly not suggesting . . ."), Kosygin laid out a rehash of anti...
Finally, Kosygin turned to his translator and said, "I really want to finish him off." Reston asked for permission to publish the interview. Kosygin agreed -but insisted on having a day to go over the transcript, "to avoid misunderstanding." The Soviet Premier obviously saw the interview as a prestigious piece of propaganda. That it may have been in Russia and, perhaps, in North Viet Nam. But elsewhere it showed Kosygin to be unsure of his facts, easily provoked into unreasoned anger and hardly master of himself-let alone a great nation...