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...force assembled for TIME'S on-the-scene coverage of the U.N. session. The others, covering their special fields or assigned to specific facets of the story, were Washington Bureau Chief John Steele, White House Correspondent Charles Mohr, State Department Correspondent John Beal, Latin American Specialist Jerry Hannifin, New York Correspondents George Bookman and Bill Smith, Chicago Senior Correspondent Murray Gart and Montreal Bureau Chief Gavin Scott...
...ready to hoist the colors." Up went the Stars and Stripes and the commissioning pennant on the first U.S. submarine of a new class to join the fleet-the history-making Polaris sub George Washington.* Skipper Osborn next turned smartly to his executive officer, snapped a gloved salute. "Mr. Hannifin," he ordered, "set the watch...
Macoy asked "Tacho" Somoza, who does control Nicaragua, just what part of the story wasn't true. "Oh, that stuff about me getting some money to pay somebody. That all came from the opposition, but I don't mind. Hell, when they (TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin) told me about doing a story, I said, 'Why bother about me? I'm a friend of the United States.' But they said they needed the story, so I said go ahead. Hell, that's a lotta propaganda - didn't cost me a penny...
...preparation for the story Correspondent Hannifin covered the ground thoroughly before undergoing the first of several interviews with Tacho, whom he found "a very tough and sentimental character, able and articulate under questioning, with what is undoubtedly the most calculating, retentive, audacious, and coldest mind in the Caribbean area." Before each interview Tacho would say: "Ask me anything, anything you want; I am opening my heart. Of course, I'm only a farm boy, not a politician...
Being a farm boy himself (from Idaho), Hannifin got along fine. Knowing that the Dictator was accustomed to censoring personally all outgoing cables about himself (in order to delete embarrassing copy and to see what others were saying about him), Hannifin typed out his copy and filed it from San Salvador, where censorship applies only to stories about El Salvador. There were no deletions and Hannifin, who by that time was "about the color of the background of Chaliapin's portrait of Somoza," went to the hospital with a severe attack of jaundice, answering the editors' remaining queries...