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Only the indefatigable Joseph Kraft, though he lacks Lippmann's magisterial authority, sometimes approaches the master's command of foreign and domestic topics. In fact, in an overreported town like Washington, the best reporting generally comes from those who are specialists in defense, diplomacy or Congress, rather than those who focus on the big picture. Jack Anderson, who minds Drew Pearson's store, still deals successfully in the tattletales of disgruntled bureaucrats. But he no longer has an exclusive franchise, ever since the archtattler of them all, Deep Throat, told his tales elsewhere. Among the newcomers...
BERLINGUER AND THE PROFESSOR has been translated into American not merely because it involves our secretary of state, but because it is designed for American intellectual "liberals" of the sort that have been following Italian politics with Joseph Kraft in The New York Times. The book caters to those who can laugh sarcastically at a description of Kissinger "seeing red" when he hears from the CIA that the communists are gaining in popularity, but who fear the reality of the communists' growing power. It caters to those who themselves have the stereotyped "Italian" view of politics: no illusions...
...acting in the old capitalist tradition of clearing out the competition by price-cutting. The targets are tariffs set in "conferences"-international shipping agreements -that cover nearly all commodities on the world's trade routes. A conference member, for example, must charge $52.75 per ton for carrying kraft wrapping paper from the U.S.'s West Coast to the Far East. The Soviet price: $38. Russian ships will haul coffee or sisal from Kenya to Europe for half of the conference rate, machine tools from West Germany to Canada at a 45% reduction, or indeed any product at whatever...
...Jenny Marre as Liz are outstanding, delivering their lines with precise comic timing. Altman skillfully portrays the long-suffering secretary who manages Garry's business affairs while Marre captures the combination of grace, warmth, and level-headedness that makes Liz a perfect complement to Garry's irresponsibility. Philip Kraft turns in a hilarious character bit as Roland Maule, affecting nervous and eccentric mannerisms that convincingly delineate his madness. But Susan Schwartz is miscast as the seductive and elegantly attractive Joanna; she is just too abrasive and overtly aggressive. Joanna's seduction of Garry in the second act becomes an attack...
...Satisfied and vindicated" was the way Political Columnist Joseph Kraft described himself last week. After years of protesting illegal wiretaps on his Georgetown home, Kraft was finally given assurances from Attorney General Edward Levi that his FBI files would be destroyed, and that such taps "would not be authorized" any longer by the Justice Department. Kraft had first learned of the bugs back in 1973; after gaining access to his FBI dossier recently, he learned even more. During a trip to Paris by the journalist back in 1969, FBI agents arranged for a bug in his room at the George...