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...your story relating to Mr. Mitchell and myself is based entirely on one statement which you carry as an apparent direct, first-hand quotation from Mr. Hunt. Hunt has publicly denied that he made such a statement. It is not a first-hand quotation and even if it were firsthand, the statement would be hearsay. It is perhaps second, third-or fourth-hand hearsay...
...many of its older survivors knew from firsthand experience, Managua was disaster-prone. In 1885 and again in 1931, the city was virtually leveled by quakes, with heavy loss of life (some 1,450 died in the 1931 catastrophe). Lying along the "circle of fire," a ring of volcanoes and seismic fault lines that encircles the Pacific from the Aleutians down through the western rim of the Americas to New Zealand and up through Japan, Central America is frequently shaken by geologic turbulence...
Fulton finds that his course, "The Sociology of Death," draws many English, history and philosophy majors eager to experience what he calls "the natural round of life." Because so many deaths in the U.S. now occur in hospitals or nursing homes, young people have no opportunity to experience it firsthand. "The only deaths they are exposed to are in TV dramas, or those in Viet Nam or Bangladesh-never those of average Americans," says Fulton. Another reason for student interest, according to University of Maryland Health Education Professor Daniel Leviton, "is the chance to ventilate their fears about death...
...unmarked office where she pored over Kissinger's books and foreign-policy statements. White House Correspondent Jerrold Schecter, who accompanied Nixon and Kissinger to Moscow and Peking earlier in the year and who has lately been following his subjects from Paris to Key Biscayne, Fla., provided his firsthand observations of the special working relationship that exists between the two men. Associate Editor Lance Morrow wrote the cover, his second Man of the Year effort (he also wrote "The Middle Americans" in 1969) and his seventh cover story this year...
...Foxes, failed to prove his case. Some of his evidence was indeed controvertible, and much of it was questionable. In addition, some of it, presented as if it were being disclosed for the first time, is rehashed material that had been published before. Above all, the series lacked convincing firsthand testimony to Bormann's existence. Farago did not claim to have seen Bormann with his own eyes. The best he could offer was the word of someone else, and that was quickly in dispute...