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...discussion of Henry Kissinger's meeting with the Latin American Foreign Ministers [Feb. 25], TIME incorrectly characterized U.S. inter-American policy as "near-total neglect." The Nixon Administration has worked carefully to avoid a chronic flaw in previous U.S. policy: the idea that all development in Latin America should be according to U.S. formulas. The result is the "low-profile" posture, in which the U.S. would not dominate but rather wait for Latin American initiatives...
...phenomena story was fed into it. Against astronomical odds, both of the machines that print out TIME'S copy stopped working simultaneously. No sooner were the spirits exorcised and the machines back in operation than the IBM computer in effect swallowed the entire cover story; it developed a flaw in its programming that sent the copy circling endlessly through memory loops from which it could not be retrieved. Thirteen hours and a second expert exorcism later, the IBM 370/135 snapped out of its trance and grudgingly returned the finished story...
This ethic of blind loyalty was the fatal flaw in the Confucian tradition. A young official served at the grace of the emperor, not China, because, for him, the emperor was the very essence of China. During the Opium War--China's disastrous contact with the naked force of Western imperialism--complete alteration of battle results was common. The deceptions protected individual officers in the eyes of the emperor at the expense of the entire people--but then "the people" was only a vague concept in the Confucian tradition. The ruling hierarchy could not handle conflicts greater than relations between...
...book, originally by Anita Loos and Joseph Fields, has been updated by Kenny Solms and Gail Parent. Lorelei has been touring the country for eleven months. Perhaps that is why not even the Art Deco sets - inappropriate for a 1920s story- look fresh. The book, which always had the flaw of seeming more heartless than its heroine, now seems just plain crass...
...clarifications, previous statements declared "inoperative," and multiple promises of full disclosure. Subpoenas were resisted. The persistent Special Prosecutor was fired. Next a sudden yielding to the courts, followed by an Operation Candor that was far from candid, claims that crucial tapes were "nonexistent" and the revelation of a mysterious flaw in one recording. Observes TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey: "It all falls into place, it all makes sense, if one makes a very simple assumption: Nixon is guilty?he knew what his men were doing and, indeed, directed them." Otherwise, it was all irrational behavior ?and that...