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...corporation's official position is that Keeler authorized the donation "without the approval or knowledge of the board of directors." As McMullen says: "Yet to be explained is how one officer can dispatch $100,000 of corporate funds without the knowledge and acquiescence of other senior officers." McMullen's account of Keeler's triumph and downfall-both based on the fallacy of loyalty to an institutional structure rather than to himself and to generally accepted standards of moral accountability-adds up to one of television's fine hours...
...some reporters ballooned a friendly gesture into a minor tempest? Deakin's boss, Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau Chief Richard Dudman, denied it: "That was uncommon behavior on the part of the President, and it therefore should be reported." But since the original eyewitness reporting had been uncommonly ambivalent, some doubt remained as to just what had happened...
...with the disclaimer that they still thought the event "insignificant." But recalling Eaton's demonstration, Zimmerman filed a story to the Journal for the issue of Monday, Nov. 19, saying that Nixon had "soundly slapped" the man's face. In a story for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, James Deakin quoted from the pool account but added a detail that he had personally learned from Cooney and Eaton: "Reporters heard the man say it was a hard slap...
...reject-and Calley does too, now-the philosophy that in our technological system we are less responsible for My Lais. I say, quite dissimilarly, that in our system human beings are intolerable intrusions that-by inches usually, or with dispatch, as at My Lai-we choose to eliminate...
...behind-the-scenes huddle, was apoplectic. "Breach of faith!" he shouted, shaking his finger at Malik, as other delegates watched in stunned dismay. "Nonsense!" Malik shouted back. As a result of the bickering, the U.N. was stalled-until agreement was reached late last week-in trying to dispatch additional troops for the emergency force in the Middle East. Said one U.N. observer: "Détente's got off to a very wobbly start. The cracks are showing everywhere...