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...last week to plug her upcoming book, Assata: An Autobiography (Lawrence Hill & Co.; $18.95). Chesimard, 40, was once dubbed by police the "mother hen" of the Black Liberation Army, a radical sect that staged bank robberies in the New York area. In Havana, she told the Long Island newspaper Newsday that the Castro government supports her and her 13- year-old daughter Kakuya while Chesimard studies for a master's degree in social science...
Backstage at the White House, there was some gratification derived from the fact that the American people had at last been able to witness the arrogance of electronic journalism. "The network correspondents quite often think they are more important than the President," says a Reagan aide. When Newsday's veteran White House hand, Saul Friedman, upbraided Wallace for his performance, the NBC man told him to lay off, since they were both in the same business. "Oh, no, we're not," shot back Friedman. That is the point. Do the highly charged careers of these television stars require them, even...
...known charismatic writer, told the Washington Post that Bakker "was very surprised that this gal was able to perform the way that she did . . . He described her as very professional for 21 years of age . . . She knew all the tricks of the trade." Hahn indignantly told Long Island's Newsday, "That was not my style, honest. I think it's a ridiculous statement...
...rebels, but there is little reporting on exactly how the contras are faring in the field. Even after thousands of newly armed rebels began streaming into Nicaragua in December for what contra and U.S. officials describe as a make- or-break offensive, reporters have had no better luck. Says Newsday Correspondent Jim Mulvaney: "We are not really covering this...
...least that's how the Associated Press reported the story. Since it was New Year's Day and the budget story demanded lots of attention, many papers which ordinarily would have used their own reporters to cover the story--the Globe and Newsday, for instance--instead ran AP's version of it. The AP story made it seem that the Reagan Administration was doing something beneficial for college students not born with a silver fountain-pen in their breastpocket...