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...failed to mention the participation of a sizable veterans' group (larger by far than the corps of cadets at West Point) or the 16 of us leading this contingent who have served in Viet Nam. I find this omission more damaging to "objective reporting" than the unofficial press censorship in Viet Nam, although I do thank you for stating that the peace demonstration "was as peaceful as its pacifist philosophy and about as damaging to the U.S. image throughout the world as a blow from the daffodils the marchers carried." This was the intention of the demonstration...
...Singh's death was Svetlana permitted to bring his ashes to his birthplace. There she made her decision to defect. "My husband has died in Moscow, and his death exactly made me absolutely intolerant to the things to which I was rather tolerant before," said Svetlana. "I can mention also the courts, the trial of [Underground Writers] Sinyavsky and Daniel, which produced a horrible impression on all the intellectuals in Russia and on me also, and I can say that I lost the hopes which I had before that we are going to become liberal somehow...
Vietnam Summer is Alperovitz's brainchild: a fact he will rarely acknowledge in private and never in public. But when King, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the controversial managing editor of Ramparts, Robert Scheer, got together for a press conference, the New York Times did not mention the 29-year-old peace organizer. Even if he did start the whole thing...
...mention Reagan as a presidential possibility. But the first 100 days of his administration show confusion, ineptness, destructive programs, and a disregard for the welfare of the people. He and his advisers, wealthy reactionaries, have placed the dollar above human rights, offered nothing creative or constructive. If good looks, a nice smile and a mouthful of beautiful teeth are the requisites for the presidency, he has all the qualifications...
Among other things, this book is recommended for Wall Street board rooms. It must be the first ironical chronicle of those times that does not even mention such grim facts as G.M. at 8 and Anaconda...