Word: kuralt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tuesday, December 20 CBS REPORTS: HARVEST OF MERCY (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Charles Kuralt and Winston Burdett report on this year's famine in India and the massive rescue effort, headed by the U.S., that has saved an estimated 70 million Indians from starvation...
Tuesday, November 15 CBS REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Charles Kuralt reports on "The State of the Unions," reviewing the history of American unionism and discussing present-day problems-from the fight to organize a grape workers' union in California to the U.A.W.'s complex operations at Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn, Mich., plant...
...doubts because he had seen "dozens of lawyers" among the rebels, "marching in their robes of office." Were U.S. troops neutral, as U.S. policy ordered? Film clips showed U.S. officials professing neutrality and U.S. troops apparently favoring junta forces at checkpoints. The marines, said Kuralt, "never got the word." To prove it, he showed a CBS reporter interviewing a marine. "Who are the enemy here?" "It's the rebels and civilians who have got ammunition and guns...
...discussion at the end of the program, three CBS newsmen appeared on camera to sum up. Was the U.S. justified in breaking "the rules of international conduct?" asked Kuralt. Johnson's decision, answered Reporter Bert Quint, brought back "the whole specter of Yankee imperialism in Latin America. It was a decision that is making a lot of Latin Americans hate us." Then Kuralt and Quint turned for guidance to Eric Sevareid, CBS National Correspondent. And like a fatherly professor reproving wayward journalism students, Sevareid offered some corrections: "The specter of American gunboat diplomacy, I would suggest, is a much...
Agony of Power. But didn't contradictory policies "damage" the U.S. in Latin America, pleaded Kuralt. Of course they did, said Sevareid. But "I would only suggest that crises are not laid out in advance, and you're not given a form book to go by. I don't think it's possible to throw in a great force in a tiny place and handle it with exactitude, with regard to all the niceties. It is part of what's called the agony of being a great power with great responsibility...