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Though Murdoch promised Evans editorial control at the Times, his Fleet Street colleagues are skeptical. Said Sunday Observer Editor Conor Cruise O'Brien a few days before the appointment: "Mr.Murdoch's track record shows that he expects and gets uncritical subservience from the newspapers he owns." Evans naturally was more upbeat about his new assignment: "It is a very great honor for any journalist, although I must admit it is a daunting challenge...
...Times last week: "[Murdoch's] decision to take on our problems was an act of considerable courage. The assurances of editorial independence, which Mr. Murdoch has given, are very far-reaching, and there is no reason to doubt he will abide by them." In Toronto, Lord Thomson of Fleet was melancholy about giving up the paper, but he professed confidence about the new proprietor: "I feel very sad that we failed to make the papers successful. I know that [Murdoch] has the desire to show the world that he can produce good newspapers as well as sensational ones...
Elsewhere in Massachusetts, local officials are scraping for every dollar. In Blackstone, town fathers are considering wiping out weekly trash pickups. In Framingham, officials are planning to close one of the ten elementary schools and, in an effort to reduce the fleet of school buses, they may ask students to stand while riding to school. In Foxboro, the police department even considered destroying its dog Butch, to help cope with budget cuts imposed by Proposition 2½. After a public outcry, Butch was spared...
...that simple, and Reagan knows it. The Sixth Fleet still steadies the Middle East, 35 million Social Security checks still go out the third of every month -and most of them are made out correctly-and we still need regulation for airways and hospitals...
...papers on the block, declaring that it would fold them in March if no buyer could be found. Enter Murdoch, who is reported to have offered upwards of $65 million. Says he: "I have a practical knowledge of, and a good working relationship with, the unions in Fleet Street." Indeed, despite Murdoch's ultimatum to the unions, labor leaders seemed pleased with the impending sale. Said Owen O'Brien, head of one print union: "Mr. Murdoch is tough, but he sticks to his word...