Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Slam" Marshall is right! With notable exceptions, the press and television are doing a miserable job of reporting meaningful facts in Viet Nam. As an operations officer in the Mekong Delta last year, I came in contact with numerous reporters and was amazed by the inexperience, prejudice and hostility of some who, it seemed, had already written their stories (at least mentally) before leaving the U.S. Their stories usually wound up as half-baked concoctions of half-truths completely unrelated to what was really going on. People know how bad reporting really is because those doing the fighting write home...
...Government, not wanting to prejudice its case in court, would give only sketchy details of the alleged conspiracy, but the pattern was as commonplace as the personalities. Boecken-haupt had top-secret clearance and access to many high-level communications, including those on the Moscow-Washington hot line. His contact, said the FBI, was Aleksey Malinin, a low-ranking clerk in the commercial section of the Soviet embassy. In June 1965, at the first of at least two meetings in Washington's Virginia suburbs, according to the FBI, the Russian merely questioned Boeckenhaupt about his duties in the Pentagon...
...purpose of visits such as McNamara's is to bring important men in government in close contact with undergraduates under conditions that will allow a free exchange of ideas. In a relaxed atmosphere, with all comments off the record, the Institute's guests will provide interested students with a frank idea of the problems of policy-making and administration...
Eight or ten freshmen have attended each of the three dinners so far. This senior associate was the only one of about ten polled who reported having a significant number of freshmen contact him for advice...
Soviet journalists, said Ehrenburg, should imitate some of the better practices of the Western press. A correspondent, he said, should "speak the language of the country on which he reports, maintain close contact with all circles of society, keep his ear open to a variety of contradictory opinions, and only then sum up his impressions...