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...analytical articles, received no individual recognition. Apparently the jurors felt that the Times's courage in printing the material in the face of Government legal pressure was the crucial element. Yet Columnist Jack Anderson (TIME cover, April 3) won the national reporting prize for obtaining other secret material-memoranda concerning secret Administration discussions about the U.S. attitude toward the India-Pakistan War, which favored Pakistan...
...about an unsuccessful conspiracy to murder Nero, but for some unfathomable reason he has chosen to write it entirely as a series of documents, mostly memos between two police officials known only as Tigellinus and Paenus. Even at times of high crisis they stop to send each other long memoranda in a kind of pseudo Latin, using terms like "the fourth night hour." And they consistently refer to Nero as Himself. Do we really need a review...
...papers on Government officials: "If the courts hold that this kind of material can be taken out of Government on this basis and made public, it will bring about major changes in the conduct of Government. My habit was that I did not go around writing a lot of memoranda. I've been in Government long enough to know it is not a good idea to spread papers all over the landscape. People will just find other ways to proceed. It will be a little less convenient and future historians will pay some cost...
...first part would contain a list of options on what to do about Vietnam, and the second would be a list of specific questions on the progress of the war. It was the questions part of the study-the first in what became known as National Security Study Memoranda-which Kissinger said had been designed to reveal the differing points of view. This he proposed to accomplish in an unprecedented way-by putting identical sets of questions to different departments, questions which, in the cases of most agencies, fell clearly outside their range of primary responsibility. The CIA, for example...
...shamed as their underlings, and entire agencies were seen in outright conflict. Further-more, the questions themselves were long and bulky-merely sorting out the answers required a major effort on the part of Kissinger's own staff. And by the time the series of National Security Study Memoranda-on Vietnam and on each of the remaining issues of foreign policy-had been completed, Nixon and Kissinger had already taken the crucial steps in shaping the new Administration's approach to policy. "They had us tied up here for months and months," one State Department official ruminated recently...