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...York Times Columnist William Safire joined the debate last Thursday by declining, in print, an invitation to have drinks with Reagan and a few other journalists in the Oval Office. That session too was to be off the record, a practice that Safire described in a column as "a pernicious conspiracy to protect candidates for high office that entices reporters to become insiders and leaves the public out side."The conservative Safire, who has generally supported Reagan, added: "I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted-not my hand held...
...Palestinians are to the West's need for justice." The West Bank alone offers the moral tourist a sandbox full of paradoxes, ironies and ambiguities too neat, and cheap, to refuse. For the Israeli these are questions of life and death; for the traveling moralist (lives there a columnist who has not made the hajj?), they are an occasion for indignation and advice, the consequences of which are to be observed safely from overseas...
...romantic, down and dirty Dallas that television keeps alive has long since gone. "It's such a straight town," says Dallas Times Herald Columnist Molly Ivins. "It is so earnest about making itself a great city. When people spot funkiness in Dallas, they race around with a wrecking ball and get rid of it immediately. "The Dallas of the '80s is a community that has adopted the construction crane as its municipal bird," the introduction to a fact book about Dallas crows, and it is a fact. A skyline that now looks like a comb on its back...
...controversy erupted when Columnist Jack Anderson publicized Tsakos' financial relationship with Hatfield's wife Antoinette, a prominent real estate broker. The Senator initially said that the payments to his wife, which were listed in his financial-disclosure report,* were for locating and supervising the renovation of an apartment in the Watergate complex that Tsakos bought for $520,000. When the seller of the apartment said he had never met Mrs. Hatfield and had sold the apartment to Tsakos directly, the Senator elaborated. Mrs. Hatfield, he said, had been paid $15,000 for showing Tsakos several apartments, including some...
SENTENCED. Peter Theodoracopulos, 45, acid-penned society columnist, earlier for Esquire, now for Vanity Fair, under his well-known nom de plume Taki; to 16 weeks' imprisonment for cocaine possession, after his arrest at Heathrow Airport last month with 23.1 grams of the drug, worth $2,000, in his back pocket; in London. Taki pleaded guilty, but plans to appeal the sentence...