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...another source of friction is Iran's dispatch of an estimated 1,500-man commando brigade to the Persian Gulf sultanate of Oman, where it is helping 11,000 loyalist troops who are trying to put down a Soviet-armed guerrilla force...
Died. Theodore Carl Link, 69, tenacious crime reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and former combat Marine in the South Pacific; of an apparent heart attack; in University City...
Link was a classic investigator who often shook hoodlums by their lapels to get them to tell the truth. Among his more celebrated stories: the uncovering of a bloodthirsty gang in the 1920s known as the Green Ones, and a series that won a Pulitzer Prize for the Post-Dispatch in 1952. Its detailing of corruption led to an overhaul of the Internal Revenue Bureau in Missouri and the resignation of William Boyle, then the Democratic national chairman...
...Press viewers were on the phone to the Post, pointing out the error. The damage had been partially contained: both the A.P. and U.P.I, wire services carried correct references to Truman as Goldwater's "best President" in their stories. Even the L.A. Times ignored its own news service dispatch for a story based on wire service coverage. But a number of major papers across the country did run the blooper-with follow-up corrections-including the Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Post, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Louisville Courier-Journal, Boston Globe and New York Post. The New York Times...
...years ago, TIME listed its choice of the ten best newspapers in the U.S. In alphabetical order, they were: the Baltimore Sun, Cleveland Press, Los Angeles Times, Louisville Courier-Journal, Milwaukee Journal, Minneapolis morning Tribune, New York Daily News, New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Washington Post. Reviewing the nation's major dailies today, TIME correspondents and editors found marked change; five of the 1964 selections have been replaced by other papers that have improved sharply...