Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Center for International Affairs (CFIA) has received a formal apology from a Boston Globe columnist who last month quoted remarks made in a CFIA seminar after a CFIA official had told him that all seminar comments are off the record...
...Columnist Joseph Kraft condemned the trip as the "sleazy act" of a "contemptible man ... now betraying the man who pardoned him." Nixon's journey, Kraft predicted, "can only foster a deadlock between Ford and Reagan, which will serve to promote the candidacy of the man he really wanted to succeed him as President, John Connally...
Parity and Dignity. Kissinger's main objective was to persuade Latin Americans that the U.S. really does care, but not everyone was convinced. In Venezuela, one columnist noted sarcastically: "During the past few days, certain government officials have been very excited. We can't tell whether to attribute the excitement to the visit of Henry Kissinger or the visit of Raquel Welch." Colombia's left-wing weekly Alternativa, arguing that Kissinger was not coming to negotiate but to impose conditions, ran a full-page cartoon of the Secretary declaring, "The Guatemala earthquake was just a warning...
...blame fans for a loss is absurd, and neither columnist is guilty of doing that. Both emphasized the failure to add that "something special" which is so much a part of the home ice edge. And indeed, a good team would not need a boisterous crowd to win, but such a crowd can be of immense help when the going gets rough...
Last May, liberal Times columnist Tom Wicker and conservative columnist William Safire agreed that socialism was cruel and against human nature. Safire damned socialism as "anti-city, anti-civilization, anti-freedom." But using the rigors of Cambodian socialism to warn Americans away from considering alternatives to capitalism here is dishonest; we face vastly different--and potentially far better--conditions for changing our economic system. But the press' treatment of Cambodia is no isolated instance; coverage of Allende's Chile, and of Portugal today would reveal similarly distorted coverage. Why? A.J. Liebling once said, "Freedom of the press is for those...