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...happy to agree with Chinese wishes to withhold information on all top-level discussions. After the first Nixon-Mao meeting, Ziegler would not even pinpoint the location of Mao's home in Peking, or describe the refreshments. "Absurd," growled the New York Times''s Max Frankel, who was told it would be "fair to assume that tea was served." Arrangements for filing cables were fine. Phone calls were put through in a matter of minutes. But what...
...Peking auto assembly plant. The New York Daily News made much of the observation by U.P.I.'s Norman Kempster that "Peking looks like a working-class neighborhood in The Bronx." Even when correspondents did make prolonged contact with responsive individual Chinese, as the Times's Frankel did with some students at Peking University, the results could be unnerving. One student said the bloodshed during the recent Cultural Revolution was necessary because it helped expose enemies of the people. Frankel: "Then why does Chairman Mao now say that violence is not the way?" Reply: "Because violence...
Longest Journey--Returning Home. Journalists who accompanied Nixon to China give their impressions. Max Frankel (N.Y. Times), Peter Lisagor (Chicago Daily News) and Theodore White. 11, March 6, Chan...
...running its own disclosures, the Times was forced to fill news columns with detailed stories on the progress of court action and public debate. Three times on its editorial page the paper insisted that it had seen its duty and done it. Byliners James Reston, Tom Wicker and Max Frankel contributed eight columns to the verbal defense fund (see THE NATION). To its credit, the Times turned over its Op-Ed page to notable personalities who were invited to argue both sides of the question. More than a dozen dissertations were printed, and each side got fair play. Among those...
...material leaked by lower-level bureaucrats who are often motivated by personal or parochial departmental interests and actually antagonistic to the policies of the President they serve. "What the press never does say is who the leaker is and why he wants the story leaked," Moynihan contends. Frankel insists that "deliberate disclosure of information for the purpose of injuring the President is relatively rare" and asks: "Even if the deliberate 'leaking' were as harmful as you suggest, is it your contention that the press should ignore such information and pretend it was never received...