Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history? If they have misled public opinion or the government by inaccurate information or wrong conclusions, do we know of any cases of public recognition and rectification of such mistakes by the same journalist or the same newspaper? No, it does not happen, because it would damage sales. A nation may be the victim of such a mistake, but the journalist always gets away with it. One may safely assume that he will start writing the opposity with renewed self-assurance...
...rectified, they will stay on in the readers' memory. How many hasty, immature, superficial and misleading judgments are expressed every day, confusing readers, without any verification. The press can both simulate public opinion and miseducate it. Thus we may see terrorists heroized, or secret matters. pertaining to one's nation's defense, publicly revealed, or we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under the slogan: "everyone is entitled to know everything". But this is a false slogan, characteristic of a false era: people also have the right not to know, and it is a much...
...outside world as a reversion to the terror and bestiality of the African past, came to be viewed as a war of independence. Kenyatta himself, who had been denounced by a British colonial governor as "a leader to darkness and death," became as the ruler of his new nation a symbol of reconciliation without rancor. As a special mark of respect, the British government announced that Prince Charles would represent Queen Elizabeth II at Kenyatta's funeral this week...
That kind of broad diplomatic wooing of the U.S. has suddenly come into fashion in Viet Nam. The nation is embroiled in a fratricidal war, now more than two years old, with the neighboring?and ultrafanatical?Communist regime in Cambodia, and drifting at the same time into hostilities with another former friend, the People's Republic of China. The pro-American trend in Hanoi is all the more notable given the starchy posture of the victorious Vietnamese regime following the fall of Saigon in April 1975. For more than three years the government, headed by Premier Pham Van Dong...
Remember Watergate? John Ehrlichman does, probably somewhat differently from you and me. The former Nixon aide says that the effect of Watergate on the nation is "like pretty girls . . . not entirely good and not entirely bad." Anyone interested in more such pearls from Ehrlichman can tune in on his new 2½-min., five-day-a-week radio commentary, The View from Here, airing Oct. 2 on more than 900 stations. In a promo record, he comments on the upcoming Begin-Sadat meeting at Camp David. Noting that there is only one kitchen that serves guests at the presidential retreat...