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...understanding in the country as well as in Washington of the role of a free press in a free society (see PRESS). There will be "adversary" elements in the relationship between the press and any President, but the Nixon Administration has been paranoiac on the subject. Until the past fortnight, the White House was treating journalistic pursuit of the Watergate story as though it were malicious or downright unpatriotic. In his April 30 speech, belatedly but generously, the President actually praised the press for its work in exposing Watergate. Ron Ziegler picked up the cue the next day and, under...
...Punch. His loss in the Wood, coming only a fortnight before the Derby, rekindled flagging hopes in the stables of competitors. In an eight-horse field, he lagged slightly after breaking from an outside post position, then failed to make up sufficient ground with a belated stretch drive. "He just didn't have his usual punch," Jockey Ron Turcotte said afterward. Despite the defeat, Secretariat still remains the shortest-priced early betting favorite in Derby history. Last week the odds on Secretariat were...
...small colleges and a thoroughly heterogenous population. The universities openly engage in classified research for the United States Government. It is logical to speculate that such research might just include the study of socio-psychological stress factors within a controlled environment. If one cares to spend most of a fortnight researching Harvard and M.I.T. real estate acquisitions within the City of Cambridge from the end of World War II through the late 1960s one soon comes to the conclusion that there is indeed a pattern to such purchases. The stage was slowly and deliberately being set to pressure low-income...
Things have not been going particularly well in Uganda lately. On top of the steady deterioration of the economy and continuing strife within the army, two of President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada's top civilian ministers turned up in Kenya within the past fortnight. Shortly afterward, Amin announced that he was giving the rest of his Cabinet a month's vacation-presumably a prelude to a major shakeup. "A human being is a human being," Big Daddy explained, "and like a car he needs refueling and fresh air after working for a long time...
...above all, has shown national rivals that it is possible-and highly profitable-to market on a continental scale. But benefits always involve costs. America's continuing export of capital is a major factor in the chronic turbulence of the international monetary system. Last week, a mere fortnight after the second devaluation of the dollar in 14 months, Europe's major foreign exchange markets closed to prevent further massive speculation (see page...