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...embassies are equally a good source of news, because reporters are able to exchange stories with Ambassadors who want to know what is really being said about DeGaulle in Washington. Reporters are also used to convey warnings to foreign governments which would be difficult to include in a diplomatic dispatch. When, for example, the U.S. wanted to let the French know what would happen if they withdrew from NATO, they gave a reporter a story about the kinds of reactions that might be provoked by a French withdrawal. Nothing so unsubtle could be included in the diplomatic mail...
...escalation to seek a negotiated end to the war. The process involves, perhaps, a few more moves of stepping-up and stepping-back in the war effort before either side is ready to come to peace without complete victory or defeat. If viewed in this same light, a dispatch of Korean troops, sent to Vietnam at the request of the U.S., could be a factor contributing to eventual peace...
Luce loved reporting, and he seized every excuse to go after news at first hand. On one trip to London some years ago, he expressed skepticism about a dispatch that had characterized Britain's man in the street as being interested only in "football pools, bus queues and everyday living," so he commandeered an office car and went out to take his own soundings. On his return, he simply told the correspondent: "You were right...
...instead of asking for an outright barring, he would request the appointment of a committee to investigate Powell's conduct. Under this plan, Powell could take his seat and draw his salary but would not be entitled to vote during the investigation. Harlem's leaders threatened to dispatch "busloads" of demonstrators to the capital in a spectacle reminiscent of the 1963 march on Washington. The purpose: to pressure Congress to keep its hands off Adam...
...Paul Doumer bridge spanning the Red River (the city's limits at that point) had been "devastated." The French Communist daily L'Humanité also said that the Chinese embassy had been "touched by a projectile," whatever that meant. Peking caught the clue, soon put out a dispatch claiming that U.S. planes had "dive-bombed" the embassy and hit the nearby office of the New China News Agency...