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...this week's cover story, Shaw once again watched Brezhnev go to work and then followed him, along with ten other newsmen, for a 3-hr. 20-min. interview, the first ever between the 66-year-old Soviet leader and American reporters. Shaw also analyzed the diplomatic, political and economic climate in Moscow on the eve of the second U.S. -Soviet summit in less than 13 months...
That is the only time she has given way. She not only responds briskly to newsmen's queries and questions from her audiences but also launches cool counterattacks at times. On one occasion she observed: "How can you know everything that's going on in an Administration, go to China, go to the Soviet Union, control inflation, control riots -there have been no major riots while my father has been in office-and do all the other things?" Another time she observed: "I think the press is getting its due credit for bringing this whole murky thing...
Kelley admits that his department has used such surveillance methods as observing protest demonstrations, recording the automobile licenses of people who attend activist meetings, and maintaining dossiers on militants -whether or not they were suspected of crimes. On occasion, his men have posed as newsmen to obtain demonstrators' names; but he said it was done without his approval, and he ordered the practice stopped. He wins good marks from Arthur A. Benson II, a local lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, for being "amenable to suggestions and not irritated by criticism...
...midweek the President's three top economic advisers, Treasury Secretary George Shultz, Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Herbert Stein and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, rushed home from an international bankers' meeting in Paris. Nixon's new domestic policy chief, Melvin Laird, told newsmen that he would recommend tighter economic controls...
Phillips, who had been posted with his regiment to West Germany, returned to Britain for the announcement. When he and his honey-blonde fiancée entertained newsmen at Buckingham Palace, the straight-backed cavalry officer confessed that he was "petrified" when he asked Prince Philip's permission for the marriage. Anne, who said the wedding would be some time in November, showed off her engagement ring. "It's pretty simple," she said. "A sapphire in the middle and a diamond on each side." After his car's faulty battery had been repaired by mechanics at Buckingham...