Word: columnist
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...correct in arguing that the owners are now simply trying to rob them of benefits that they had earlier won), most fans judged it preposterous that men with an average salary of almost $180,000 should march out singing, "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night ..." Boston Globe Columnist Mike Barnicle gave voice to the sentiments of millions: "Both sides stink. Both sides are bums...
Most complicated of all is the issue of nuclear proliferation (see box) and the argument invoked by the Israelis that any strike against a nuclear installation that it perceives to be a threat is justified. That course is foolhardy. As Columnist Carl Rowan wrote in the Washington Star: "If Israel's nuclear nonproliferation strike is right and proper, then would it not be equally moral for an aggressor to attack suspected nuclear weapons in Israel...
Compounding these charges, Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. cited Simon Wiesenthal, the famed hunter of surviving Nazis, as having told a Uruguayan journalist that Timerman had interfered with Wiesenthal's decades-long pursuit of Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi physician who performed deadly experiments on Jews at Auschwitz. Buckley claimed that Wiesenthal had also characterized Timerman as a "leftist" who had been sent to jail not because he was Jewish, but because he was "accused of being in favor of terrorism." In Israel last week, Wiesenthal said the latter statement had been quoted out of context, though...
...Katherine Anne, 24, by her first marriage, which ended in divorce. Her second husband, Neurosurgeon Bertram Feinstein, died of cancer shortly before she became mayor. She has since married Financier Richard Blum, whose active role in his wife's career has been criticized in some quarters, leading one columnist to dub the mayor "Feinblum...
Mitterrand's comments on foreign affairs were obviously designed to project a moderate image. In an interview with New York Times Columnist James Reston, the first Mitterrand has given since his election, he enunciated a world view much like Giscard's and, on the subject of East-West relations, delivered opinions not far removed from Ronald Reagan's. Mitterrand condemned the Soviet Union's deployment of medium-range SS-20 missiles and supported the Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt. At the same time, Mitterrand outlined policies sure to raise hackles in Washington: French support...