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...Powers thinks that "somewhere in the collective consciousness of people in this country is the ideal composite face and voice of the American Man-and Cronkite has it." Paul Klein, a former audience researcher at NBC, thinks that viewers have stuck with Cronkite because his rational rhetoric provides a buffer of sanity between the often frightening news images on their screens...
...trust." There may be sound legal or tax reasons for this, but the White House offers no fuller explanation. Meanwhile, as long as Abplanalp's company does not take formal title or develop the balance of the property, the Nixons enjoy the benefit of a generous buffer zone, at no cost to them...
...Chinese fear that Russian interests may filter into the government that gains control, Salisbury said, and a friendship with the United States could buffer China from Russian influence...
...Despite the threat of U.S. sanctions, Israel delays its withdrawal of troops from the Sinai until a U.N. force is established as a peace-keeping buffer along the Sinai frontier...
...Oglala Tribal Council maintained the outermost checkpoint, while the militant American Indian Movement handled the innermost roadblock. AIM demanded the ouster of Richard Wilson, the Oglala Tribal president. It was fitting that the U.S. government roadblock stood between the two Indian checkpoints, serving both symbolically and realistically as a buffer zone...