Word: globe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troops and ships, but it is vitally important. U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Mike Mansfield is fond of asserting that since the U.S. and Japan together account for a third of all economic production in the non-Communist world, their friendship is the most important bilateral relationship on the globe. And if it, and the alliance with South Korea, are singularly untroubled - well, all the more reason to let friends know they do not have to stir up trouble to win the attention of the U.S. - By George J. Church...
...momentum. There is, to be sure, a certain degree of caricature on the surface. The portrayal of the reporters--Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy and Gene Hackman--does little to break the stereotype of the foreign correspondent, as we get a vicarious glimpse into the (improbable) world of tough-talking, globe-trotting journalists...
...trouble didn't stop there. A Boston Globe reporter called him the next day and asked how he was feeling. "I had the flu and I told him how dreadful I felt," recalls Lee. "He flippantly took that to mean that I was sick over the game...
Speaking again before a Jewish group, King said that an anti-abortion letter released by the much beloved late Humberto Cardinal Medeiros "reflected anti-Semitism" because Rep. Barney Frank '61, who is Jewish, was considered the butt of the cardinal's criticism. But Frank told The Globe that King must have gotten the issue "mixed up" with something else. King was forced to "clarify" and then, finally, apologized for a remark that unjustly criticized one of the Roman Catholic community's most popular public figures...
Indeed, the press was by no means of one like mind on the blackout. "Rather than mount ing a constitutional soapbox," said the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "the press might better spend its time contemplating why it was not informed and in vited." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat volunteered a blunt explanation: "... the television networks' antidefense bias." Declared conservative Columnist Patrick J. Buchanan: "If senior U.S. commanders running this operation harbor a deep distrust of the American press, theirs is not an unmerited contempt...