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...daughter, Princess Norodom Botum Bopha, are among those held. From Peking, Sihanouk last week lamented the arrests in a cable to TIME Correspondent Robert Anson. Anson, who was captured by the Communists and held captive for 21 days, had sought Sihanouk's help in locating other missing newsmen. Said the prince in a noncommital reply: "I understand the anguish and pain of mothers, wives and children. I myself am confronted with unhappy family problems; for example, my aged, ill mother is kept prisoner by the regime of Lon Nol, which has just arrested and unjustly imprisoned...
...Nixon has already begun rejiggering his offense for the drive to his own re-election two years hence. He has yet to announce any formal changes in the first-team lineup, but his lieutenants are gesturing frantically from the bench. At a breakfast meeting with some 15 newsmen last week, one important Nixon aide let it be known that as many as three Cabinet officers will soon be pulled out for good. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who has served as a liberal goad to Nixon-notably on the welfare reform bill, one of the Administration's few major...
House functions, ladies' luncheons?and shoots off for appreciative newsmen, telling it as Martha thinks it is. Her telephonic voice has become equally familiar to editors. She calls them in the small hours of the morning with pungent advice, such as her 2 a.m. blast to the Arkansas Gazette: "I want you to crucify Ful-bright?and that's that." She has been known to use the blue wall phone in the privacy of the bathroom "so that John won't know," enabling detractors to insinuate that she sometimes takes a drink or two too many. Martha's friends, however...
...startled, therefore, when an opposition member said in the Knesset last week that he had heard about the Hussein-Allon talks and demanded to know why Israel's parliament had not been briefed on them. His question was erased from parliamentary records, and censors refused to let newsmen report...
...same in 1970. From him, we can expect increased attacks on the media, more attempts at Administration-imposed censorship, and tighter government secrecy. The next invasion of Cambodia, for example, will most likely not be announced on television, but rather carried out as a clandestine mission with newsmen barred from observation...