Word: brandt
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...ruling is that a publication's emphasis on aggressive reporting could be submitted to a jury as evidence that it was inclined as a matter of policy to be malicious. "If you say, 'I'm a hard-hitting newsman,' that establishes that you hit maliciously," said H. Brandt Ayers, editor- publisher of Alabama's Anniston Star. "It's utterly ridiculous." Observed Richard Smyser, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors: "A newspaper's reputation is a subjective matter. It has no place in a court ruling...
...leadership, canceled a trip to Paris, where he had been expected to attend the 25th congress of the French Communist Party. Two weeks earlier, the Kremlin had announced that a conference of Warsaw Pact leaders, set for mid-January, had been postponed. In Bonn, West German Socialist Leader Willy Brandt announced that a visit to the Soviet capital in mid-February had also been postponed at Moscow's request. So great was the climate of uncertainty in Moscow that foreign diplomats and journalists became nervous every time the radio broadcast somber symphonic music, frequently the first indication...
Government officials say they have warned the companies involved about health hazards, but not individual workers. Nader contends that this policy is designed to protect corporations from costly lawsuits. Dr. Edward Brandt, Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, denies the charge. Says he: "We are in the health business. We have nothing to do with litigation...
Unfortunately, a few reactions were horrifyingly different. Less than an hour after watching the show in Milwaukee, Joseph Brandt doused his estranged wife with gasoline as she returned home from work and set her aflame. Their two sons and neighbors got there too late to rescue her; at week's end she was in critical condition and not expected to live. In Columbus, Alondra Thompson, recently released from a private psychiatric hospital, fired three bullets into her sleeping boyfriend, critically wounding him. She too told the police that The Burning Bed had inspired her act. Nevertheless, most experts absolved...
Some politicians in Bonn were not so ready to let the government off the hook. Former Chancellor Willy Brandt, chairman of the opposition Social Democratic Party and architect of Bonn's Ostpolitik in the late 1960s, denounced the "garrulous dilettantism" of Kohl's coalition. Christian Democratic Coalition Parliamentary Leader Alfred Dregger was singled out for blame. He had angered the East Germans by bluntly stating in an interview with the conservative daily Die Welt that "our future does not depend upon whether Herr Honecker pays us the honor of his visit." The East German Communist Party daily Neues...