Word: columnist
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...Wick, director of the United States Information Agency, is guilty of several rather damning actions, few of them illegal but most of them certainly unethical. First and perhaps most depressing from the man who runs the Voice of America. Wick lied to New York Times reporter Jane Perlez and columnist William Safire when they questioned him about his taping activities. Although Wick had been taping conversations for some time and may well have carried about a tape device for use when away from the office, he denied to Safire and Perlez that he had ever taped without the consent...
...furor over the disclosure is indicative of the growing sensitivity to the secret taping of phone calls both inside and outside government. The practice is "an offense against good reporting, against good business and particularly against good government," declares Times Columnist William Safire, who broke the story and who is still smarting from a wiretap of his own calls ordered by the Nixon Administration in 1969. Any surreptitious use of tape recorders is "flat wrong," says St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times Editor Eugene Patterson. "Bugging is bugging, no matter what you call it." Many major press organizations, including the Washington Post...
summer team. Fuji, meanwhile, has also been winning points for quality and low prices. Says Modern Photography magazine Columnist Martin Hershenson, about Fuji slide film: "It actually beats Kodachrome in color saturation. Kodak used to stand alone in the film area, but it's simply not that way any more...
Many press commentators, even Reagan supporters like conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., faulted the Administration policy. Buckley agreed with Reagan that terrorists should not decide where U.S. Marines should go. But he argued that the acts of terrorists should not determine "where and when the U.S. Marines must remain." Buckley urged the President to set a date for withdrawing the Marines, thus unlinking their departure from any attacks by the factions fighting in Lebanon...
...mentality. A restyled regional weather map, for example, had to be quickly scrapped in favor of a national one. Explains O'Sullivan: "One of the attractions of living here is gloating about how all your friends up North are freezing." To help ease the transition, the owners elevated Columnist Lynn Ashby, who is probably Houston's best-known newspaperman, to the new post of editor, overseeing the opinion pages. Says Ashby: "The city has badly needed a public discussion of issues. I do not ask people to agree with us, but I want us to be the first...