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...difficult to follow. Perhaps Metzeer and his Bible will spark a trend throughout the publishing world. and it Reader's Digest editors judge 10 percent of Christ's words superfluous, they will; no doubt find mortal writers whose works could profit by a but of careful pruning Imagine the memorandum now making the round at Reader's Digest...
...Saturday, Oct. 20,1 went to Camp David. There I received a "supersensitive" memorandum from Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher. He reported, "We have now learned the Shah's illness is malignant lymphoma compounded by a possible internal blockage that has resulted in severe jaundice. The lymphoma responded satisfactorily when chemotherapy was started several months ago, but recently the chemotherapy has been less effective. The Shah has not had tests necessary to establish proper diagnosis and further chemotherapeutic approaches. Dr. Benjamin Kean of the Cornell Medical School, who last saw the Shah yesterday, has advised us that these...
...MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT...
...history. News Division President Van Gordon Sauter launched an internal investigation to re-examine every step in the assembly of the documentary. To that task he assigned Burton Benjamin, a senior executive producer. After receiving Benjamin's report, Sauter last week wrote and released an eight-page memorandum, remarkable enough for being made public and unique for its candid admissions of error. Sauter said, "CBS News stands by this broadcast." But he then conceded that the news division had committed five substantial violations of CBS'S journalistic ground rules, plus other lapses and debatable "judgment calls," some...
...research and help shape the piece, yet who also appeared on air as a principal witness for the conspiracy theory. Crile and Adams had teamed to publish a story in Harper's magazine in 1975 along similar lines. Their CBS documentary, as Sauter's memorandum in effect conceded, let every "judgment call" go against Westmoreland. Whether by accident or design, admitted Sauter, "in two cases, journalistic oversight resulted in material relating to one set of events being connected to another [unrelated] set of events." Moreover, in violation of net work guidelines, the show's creators were guilty...