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...Your job is to keep CBS news holy." That was asking a lot, even of Friendly, whose view of his role as TV's public-service prophet had always been relentlessly messianic. Television, as he said, "can make so much money doing its worst that it cannot afford to do its best." Inevitably, the headstrong "Big Moose," as Friendly was known around CBS, locked horns with the network's money managers. The result was his resignation 13 months ago because the company refused to carry gavel-to-gavel sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Viet...
Weighing most oppressively on Congress' collective conscience is the problem of campaign expenses. Unless he is a millionaire many times over, the average member of Congress (annual salary: $30,000) simply cannot afford, on his own, the expense of getting elected or re-elected these days. Things have almost reached the point indicated by England's turn-of-the-century poet laureate, Alfred Austin, who wrote...
...week when he announced that his brother, Raúl, Cuba's second-in-command and the island's main contact man with Russia, had been replaced "temporarily" as armed forces minister. Since it is getting $1,000,000 a day in Soviet aid, Cuba could hardly afford a complete break. But the new Russian overtures in Latin America do show that there is a split, and the split is widening...
...task of setting the "pure" off from the "impure" in radical politics has always been a favorite tactic for dividing the left, and if the history of the last 30 years teaches us anything, it is that those seriously committed to work for change in this country can ill afford to engage in this spurious debate...
Driberg also illustrates some of MRA's other tactics. They are fond of attributing quotes to people who never said them, especially mayors and top officials who cannot politically afford to issue a denial. MRA will also take full-page ads in newspapers and then later cite them as though they were regular news articles. The Times of India was especially incensed when MRA pulled this stunt...