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BODYGUARD OF LIES by ANTHONY CAVE BROWN 947 pages. Harper...
...latest example is an article in the March issue of Harper's magazine, which its editors delicately titled "Jimmy Carter's Pathetic Lies." The 6,000-word story reviews many of the charges that Carter has already rebutted (TIME, Feb. 2). They include the implication that he courted segregationists during his 1970 gubernatorial campaign (he did woo the "redneck" vote, but early in the campaign he also guaranteed "equal treatment to all of our people"); that he supported Lester Maddox for Lieutenant Governor in 1970 and George Wallace for Vice President in 1972 (Maddox complained that Carter actually...
...campaign to attack his opponent's financial integrity. Carter insists that no such commercials exist. And though the article contains direct quotes from a "veteran archivist," Carroll Hart, director of the state archives department, said that the archives staff failed "to recognize their words or statements in [the Harper's] article." A dozen other points in the piece are challenged by sources in Georgia and elsewhere...
...author of the Harper's harpooning is Steven Brill, 25, a freelancer out of Yale and the Yale Law School who was once an assistant to former New York Mayor John V. Lindsay. Last March Brill wrote a scathing piece for New York magazine called "George Wallace Is Even Worse Than You Think He Is." Brill swears that he interviewed George Wallace; Wallace and members of his staff deny that an interview ever took place. Brill also conducted a ten-month study for Americans for Democratic Action to prove that Senator Henry Jackson is not a liberal on domestic...
...made. When so much is at stake and the old assumptions about the international order no longer hold, "the only feasible countervailing power to OPEC's control of oil power is power itself--military power," in the immortal wordes of "Miles Ignotus" (Latin for unknown soldier), described by Harper's as a "Washington-based professor and defense consultant with intimate links to high-level US policy makers" and rumored to be the pseudonym for Edward Luttwak, a well-known conservative "defense" intellectual close to Washinton's defense and "intelligence community...