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Halberstam can be rough on his principals, who sometimes emerge as caricatures, but his harshest treatment goes to Paley. While acknowledging Paley's genius and eminence ("the supreme figure of modern broadcasting"), Halberstam also insists that the chairman coldly let highly profitable entertainment programming elbow out the news division. Murrow, who helped invent broadcast journalism and became a symbol of integrity to colleagues and the public, eventually left the network in despair. Much later, Bill Moyers told Paley that he wanted to quit CBS and return to public broadcasting. Paley asked what it would take to keep him. Moyers said...
...harshest setback came from Iran itself. No sooner had Hassan Nazih, the new head of the National Iranian Oil Co., announced that NIOC would resume exports, than he was telling cheering oil field workers that Iran would be raising prices by as much as 50%, to $18 to $20 a barrel. At the same time, said Nazih, the Country would cease dealing with the London-based oil consortium', headed by British Petroleum, that has exclusive long-term contracts to buy NIOC exports...
...scarcely mentioned Teng's trip. Then, angered by his denunciation, Pravda blasted Teng for "rabid anti-Sovietism and hostility toward the policy of relaxation of international tension." The Soviets, however, seemed to recognize that the Administration was trying to put itself at a distance from Teng's harshest statements. Thus Soviet attacks on the Chinese leader spared Carter...
These are difficult days for Menachem Begin. Among his harshest critics are close comrades from his days as leader of the Irgun underground, who have not only criticized his position but branded him a traitor to the Zionist cause. Begin's performance this week may well decide the fate of the proposed treaty with Egypt. If he breaks with his chief negotiators, Dayan and Weizman, over the Israeli response to the latest proposals from Washington and Cairo, he could destroy the negotiations-and bring on a crisis for his government. If, on the other hand, he can win approval...
...House. Like most people who know Wilkinson well, Atwater was not surprised when his friend decided, after 15 years, to return to coaching with the St. Louis Cardinals. Last week Atwater took a close look at the onetime college wonder to see how he was standing up to the harshest kind of introduction to the pros: a losing streak that began on opening...