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...Viet Nam negotiation in the current Foreign Policy (TIME, June 10). In Kissinger's defense, Columnist Marquis Childs complains that to cross-examine Kissinger about wiretaps in a press conference is to act as if "diplomacy should be treated like the police beat." But if the taps flap helps make journalistic skepticism respectable again where Kissinger and his considerable achievements are concerned, the special relationship between the press and the peacemaker might be healthier for all concerned...
Bonn's latest espionage flap began when Capital, a conservative monthly business magazine, announced that it had obtained a report supposedly prepared by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency on Communist spy activity in West Germany. Among other things, said Capital, the report showed that the best-placed East German agent in Bonn was not Guillaume but Nollau, 63, a self-effacing career counterspy who had joined the West German secret service soon after he left East Germany as a refugee...
...ruling has produced a flap among watchers, particularly those who aspire to the elite "600 life list" of birders who have spent lives and fortunes spotting all the original 600 species on the A.O.U. list. As one infuriated enthusiast noted last week, "A lot of us people in the American Birding Association, which is made up of gung-ho list chasers as opposed to sedentary bathrobe birders, are fighting this. We're going to make up our own list based on recognizable field markings, not on with whom the birds happen to mate. The Baltimore oriole lives...
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...your article "The Great Slap Flap" [Dec. 3]: I am disgusted and angered by the press and its apparent personal feud with President Nixon. What gall TIME has to say that the White House attempt to use this story to discredit press criticism seems heavyhanded to most newsmen...