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...Joel Brinkley's debut spy novel, The Circus Master's Mission, combines all of these things--one person's speculation, hindsight and journalistic footwork--to come up with a fascinating look at just how out of hand our government could...
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...York Times reporter covering the Iran-Contra scandal, Brinkley has a sound understanding of the motives that drive politicians to involve themselves and their nation in Nicaraguan politics. With this kind of background, it is no wonder that the strongest part of Brinkley's novel which details the events leading to an American invasion of Nicaragua--is the psychological characterizations of his players...
...star system, of course, is hardly a new phenomenon in TV news: Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and Huntley and Brinkley were certainly as popular as any of % the current luminaries. But salaries and network bidding wars entered a new phase in 1976, when Arledge lured Walters away from NBC for $1 million a year. The rise of superagents like Richard Leibner (who represents Sawyer, Rather, Shriver and Mike Wallace, among other network news stars) has brought about an escalation of salaries and an increase in the clout these personalities wield...
...feel very bad and certainly apologize for inconvenience to the traveling public, but the president obviously is ignoring his responsibility," Charles Bryan, negotiator for the machinists union, said yesterday on ABC's "This Week With David Brinkley...