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Stormy Test. Washington Post Columnist David Broder complains Carter has pulled off his public opinion triumph despite indifferently delivered speeches that contain no memorable phrases. Indeed, Carter has gone so far as to order his speechwriters to hold their sentences at the ninth-grade level. One speechwriter told TIME that those guilty of highfalutin language "are quickly brought into line-by the leader [meaning Carter]." But, another insisted, "we are not writing down to people. If you follow Strunk and White's Elements of Style, you can meet his standard...
...though now an "access journalist," Scheer is not really housebroken. Attending his first Georgetown dinner party with a columnist, he relates: "I couldn't believe the conversation. Most journalists of power are part of a culture that is almost all 'off the record,' constantly swimming in a sea of information the rest of us don't get to see." If Scheer himself heard something of import at a dinner party, he would "violate that civilized behavior and maybe not get invited to any more parties." On the same grounds, he asserted his right to break confidences...
...cause of the near global bewilderment-and fascination-with Carter's approach to world affairs is what New York Times Columnist James Reston calls Carter's "open mouth" foreign policy. As the President put it in his speech to the U.N. last week: "I have brought to office a firm commitment to a more open foreign policy. I believe the American people expect me to speak frankly about the policies we intend to pursue." Some of the havoc created by this approach is simply the result of the new Administration's not having had time to explain...
Died. Edgar Ansel Mowrer, 84, foreign correspondent and syndicated columnist for the Chicago Daily News from 1914 to 1969; on the Portuguese island of Madeira. As Berlin bureau chief in the '30s, Mowrer received a Pulitzer Prize for his vivid reporting on Hitler's rise, was expelled from Germany and enraged Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, who said he would expend an army division to capture Mowrer. As a columnist, Mowrer became increasingly conservative and looked on peaceful coexistence with Communism as "the opium of the West...
...were effectively keeping its secret, others who might be interested in leaking the story include Palestinian rebels, the Israelis, a disaffected official in the American or Jordanian governments, or the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, whose objection to the subsidy was overruled by Ford. Of course there are those like Columnist Tom Wicker who think that most secrets are dirty. Or those who think disclosure did no real harm, like Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who wonders "how good the Brave Little King's intelligence is, anyway. And with that $210 million in aid he gets from us, why does...