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...news coverage of foreign affairs received by Americans "is accurate, but in a very limited way," Kenneth J. Freed, Associated Press diplomatic correspondent and a Nieman fellow, said yesterday at the second of a series of Nieman fellow lectures at the Freshman Union...
...content is accurate but imbalanced, Freed said, as indicated by the fact that only two New York Times correspondents cover all of South America while three correspondents cover Paris alone...
Because his problems have been redefined as illnesses, argues Lasch, the man on the street has been freed from responsibility for running his own life and raising his children. Yet the modern social scientific approach has also increased man's sense of responsibility, for it suggests he can solve his problems only through the use of scientific techniques and that it is therefore incumbent on him to master these techniques. The socialization of reproduction has succeeded, argues Lasch, in "making people unable to provide for their own needs without the supervision of trained experts." Although capitalism still lauds the family...
...books. "In order to criticize the Gang of Four severely and to expose Chiang Ch'ing as a traitor," intoned the front-page story in Peking's People's Daily, "large numbers of Chinese and foreign books have again seen the sunlight of day." Among newly freed works once labeled "bourgeois and therefore counterrevolutionary" are Martin Eden by Jack London, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain...
...Freed from worries about the pound and payments deficits, the government can now turn to correcting the long-term economic neglect that has made Britain the industrial world's basket case. Since November, the Labor Cabinet has been debating five main options for using the North Sea revenues: 1) accelerate repayment of the country's $24 billion in accumulated long-term foreign debts (an unlikely choice), 2) develop alternative sources of energy against the day when North Sea oil runs out, 3) expand public services in order to reduce unemployment, which last month declined only slightly from its autumn-long...