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...gallons of surplus heating oil that he wanted to donate to deserving institutions. Would Murphy help him find recipients? Murphy began drawing up a list of schools and hospitals, though a colleague scoffed that the caller was probably just another of the crackpots who often bother newsmen. "I don't know whether he is or not," replied Murphy. "But he's coming over to my house tonight to talk about it and I guess I'll know then...
Some behavioral scientists accused news organizations of giving undue attention to the kidnapings. Newsmen were hardly unaware of the kidnapers' headline-hunting instincts. Yet it was impossible to deliberately downplay the kidnapings, as was done with street rioting in the '60s with some success. Not only were the abductions compelling news, but also the S.L.A. demanded, on pain of Patricia's death, that its propaganda be printed and broadcast in full (see THE PRESS...
...rumbled in a dusty parade across the last causeway, which is being left intact for the Egyptians. One group of paratroopers dived into the canal and swam across. "That is the way we came, and that is the way we are going back," said a half-naked soldier to newsmen...
...resident newsmen, jealous that they rarely have access to either Inner Mongolia or Premier Chou, have far more to complain about. Their living conditions may be excellent; a modern, eight-room apartment rents for $180 a month, and the wages for a domestic staff of four-interpreter, driver, cook and maid-are only $290 a month. But the Western reporters must labor under conditions alien to their professional standards. The Chinese make serious political analysis and hard-news reporting almost impossible...
...Briton tried to venture out of the city, the militiaman who stopped him warned: "There are strong winds, and tigers may eat you if you go too far." Foreigners are not allowed provincial newspapers, and interviews with knowledgeable Chinese are difficult in the best of times. So the newsmen rely on the People's Daily, Peking's main newspaper, and the English-language report of the Hsinhua agency. When the Tenth Communist Party Congress convened in the Great Hall of the People last August, none of the resident foreign correspondents even knew the session was taking place...