Word: interest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most panelists agreed that the truth and the public interest should be the primary considerations in deciding what to publish. But Tarzie Vittachi, a former editor of the Sri Lanka Observer and moderator of the forum, said he believed no reporting can be totally absent of value judgments because of differences in cultural backgrounds...
...alone, it might discard us. Before then, the Soviet Union might be driven into a genuine relaxation of tensions with us?if it has not first sought to break out of its isolation by a military assault on China. But whatever China's long-term policy, our medium-term interest was to cooperate, and to support its security against foreign pressures...
...documents, of course, were in no way damaging to the Nixon presidency. Indeed, there was some sentiment among White House political operatives to exploit them as an illustration of the machinations of our predecessors and the difficulties we inherited. But such an attitude seemed to me against the public interest: our system of government would surely lose all trust if each President used the process of declassification to smear his predecessors...
...Imperial City, as withdrawn and mysterious even as the emperors he disdained. Nobody ever had a scheduled appointment; one was admitted to a presence, not invited to a governmental authority. I saw Mao five times. On each occasion I was summoned suddenly. On one visit Mao expressed interest in meeting my wife Nancy. The fact that she was shopping presented no obstacle to our hosts. She was hustled out of a shop by a protocol officer who seemed to know exactly where she was and brought...
...center stage: the brilliant foreign affairs analyst who never shrank from controversy, the peripatetic statesman who was forever soaring off to distant capitals on secret missions that, when revealed, sent seismic shocks through chancelleries around the world. Even out of power, he remains the subject of intense interest: heads of state seek his counsel, his support on issues is solicited, he is deferred to?even feared?as if he still strode the corridors of the White House and State Department. During his eight years as Richard Nixon's Assistant for National Security Affairs and as Secretary of State to Nixon...