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...where somebody evidently slipped Washington Post Reporter Nancy Collins parts of H.R. Haldeman's The Ends of Power fresh from the bindery, life was pretty much back to normal last week. The network cameras had departed. Law enforcement officials had received no complaints of wrongdoing, and did not intend to solicit any. Collins seemed to have had her fill of notoriety and, at the end of a week spent mostly in ducking interviews, said: "This is all very nice, but I've got stories...
Certainly the framers of the Constitution did not intend, or even believe, that the press should be objective. They saw the health, the honesty, even the justice of society in the process of the system, in the diverse, opinionated contention of viewpoints--radical, reactionary, moderate--not in some fictive principle of objectivity. But the corporate spirit runs counter to broad freedom of thought and individual creativity; in its organization and marketing, its urge is to standardize, to cheapen, to impersonalize. And to the extent the principles of big business enter the press, this commercial spirit will prevail...
...Zambia engaged in a war of attrition with the Smith government. As expected, Front Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe castigated the internal settlement plan and vowed to step up the fighting. "We are going to hit each other hard," Nkomo said ominously after the announcement last week. "We intend to finish [Smith...
...settlements in territories captured from the Arabs in the 1967 war. Before leaving Camp David, Sadat shocked Carter and his aides with the announcement that on the next day, in a speech at Washington's National Press Club, he planned to say publicly that Egypt did not intend for the present to return to any meetings of the Israeli-Egyptian Political Committee, which he had broken off last month. Worried U.S. officials delayed Sadat's departure from Camp David by an hour, while they argued that such an announcement would bring to a halt whatever peace momentum remained...
...chose to stay away in droves. The election, which was for municipal offices, was the setting for a grim confrontation between President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, 52, and an odd but increasingly potent anti-Somoza coupling of radical guerrillas of the Sandinista movement and conservative Nicaraguan businessmen. Together the groups intend to bring Somoza down and end 42 years of dictatorial Somoza family rule...