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...casualties of the Viet Nam War sometimes seems to be the English language. Thus the South Vietnamese invasion into Laos has evoked some zealously euphemistic official prose. Although no newsmen were allowed to accompany the operation, it was clear that Saigon's troops were not only killing thousands of North Vietnamese soldiers but also taking devastating casualties themselves, and in some instances retreating in bloody disorder (see THE WORLD). Pentagon analysts called it "a rearguard action under medium pressure," and some Saigon briefers spoke of it as "redeployment"-a word that suggests the shuffling of papers from IN basket...
...Labor Statistics may no longer brief the press regarding monthly figures on inflation and unemployment. The decision, Hodgson said, was made in consultation with the White House "to avoid awkwardness to the professional staff that might result from policy questions." There is more than a suspicion among Washington newsmen that the "awkwardness" has arisen simply because the BLS professionals have in the past explained some disconcerting economic truths that conflicted with official optimism on the economy. The Laotian invasion may yet turn out to be as satisfactory as the Pentagon sees it, and the recession (which the Administration long refused...
Perhaps it was the atmosphere of the Ali-Frazier championship fight that prompted an excess of macho in Washington. The news trickled out that during the annual Gridiron Club dinner, an evening of ritual satire offered by the capital's newsmen, House Democratic Whip Hale Boggs, 57, was decked with one punch in a Statler-Hilton men's room by Indiana Republican (and former Congressman) Edward Mitchell, 60, supposedly because he objected to the abusive cracks that Boggs was making about the Nixon Administration...
...party workers beat drums, danced in the streets and showered her with marigolds, Mrs. Gandhi appeared on the lawn of her modest bungalow in New Delhi gowned in a gay red and yellow sari. "I am not the least surprised," she told newsmen, though many observers had feared that her decision to hold elections a full year ahead of schedule was a dangerous gamble. Those who predicted her defeat, she suggested, might "eat crow." In truth, the victory was far beyond the expectations of even her most optimistic advisers. Nobody expected Indira to be defeated, but some figured that...
...gist of the report was in the papers, and rumors soon followed that the Prime Minister himself was responsible for the leak. Borten, who had successfully headed Norway's four-party nonsocialist governing coalition since 1965, after 30 years of Labor Party rule, vigorously denied the story. But newsmen knew that he and Haugestad had met on the plane, and the rumors persisted. Finally, in a midnight declaration, Borten admitted that he had shown the report to Haugestad. "I have been guilty of an indiscretion," he confessed. Last week, after a series of emergency Cabinet meetings, Borten handed...