Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yiannis Horn, editor-publisher-owner of the English-language Athens News (circ. 6,000). He not only prints statements by opposition politicians but also punctuates stories with blunt editor's notes ("We demand an explanation from the regime on this"). Last October Horn headlined a story on Spiro Agnew's visit: BOMBS, RECRUITED SCHOOLCHILDREN...
...GREET AGNEW. Unfortunately for Horn, News makeup men inadvertently left out the paragraph reporting the protest bombings and the enforced turnout of pupils. Because the article as printed did not back up the headline, the government convicted Horn of practicing "negligent" journalism. Last week Horn, 60, who is in poor health, began serving a 28-week sentence. But authorities released him after two days pending an appeal...
...Steam? The most sanguine Administration assessment came from Spiro Agnew-not exactly a disinterested observer. After participating in Tokyo ceremonies that formally returned Okinawa to Japanese control, the Vice President paid a three-hour visit to Saigon. Back in Washington, he briefed President Nixon on his trip, then told newsmen that Nixon's actions had reduced Communist capabilities to "only a couple more months of activity." Added Agnew: "We're coming out of the woods...
Once it seemed that Spiro Agnew had the assignment more or less to himself-defending his President, and the republic for that matter, from the "nattering nabobs of negativism" in the press. Now the Vice President is only one member of a Republican chorus...
...thing is perfectly clear: somebody sent Vice President Spiro Agnew a bedspread. Agnew thought it came from the Democratic Governor of Maine, Kenneth M. Curtis, and he refused to accept it because, he said, Curtis had encouraged an antiwar group that had pelted him with food last April. Not so, said Governor Curtis: "I have never sent Mr. Agnew any gifts of any kind, nor do I intend doing so." Insisted an Agnew spokesman: "We definitely received a bedspread from the Governor, and it's being returned today." Riposted Curtis: "It's amazing that in the middle...