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...newsmen are all here. The CBS man with the video tape machine clamped to his shoulder is moving all around and blocking everybody's vision. I see him at all the demos. He looks like he's doing a new step trying to get himself interested in a dance routine with which he is already too familiar...
...watch me," Trudeau snapped back at newsmen who cornered him on Ottawa's Parliament Hill. "There are a lot of bleeding hearts who don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go on and bleed. But it is more important to keep law and order in the society than to be worried about weak-kneed people...
...ordered all services to begin the "zero draft" campaign immediately; Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland vowed that "unnecessary irritants and unattractive features of Army life" will be eliminated as quickly as possible; and Laird's top manpower assistant, Roger T. Kelley, spent 90 minutes briefing newsmen on the program...
...Western newsmen have summed up Jordan's civil war as a confrontation between "fed" and "Bed"-that is, between the Palestinian fedayeen and the Bedouins, who make up the largest segment (250,000) of the other Jordanians. To a certain extent this is true, for the Bedouins remain the backbone of Hussein's 56,000-man army. Yet increasing numbers of "Beds" are joining the "feds." Arabs estimate that up to 15% of the guerrillas are non-Palestinians. No fewer than 2,500 members of the Beni Sakhr, Jordan's most powerful Bedouin tribe, have joined Arafat...
...National Guardsmen last May, the incident stayed on the front pages of newspapers for weeks. Even today, five months later, the aftermath of the confrontation still makes news. But when students at the predominantly black South Carolina State College in Orangeburg clashed with police on Feb. 8, 1968, newsmen covered the event sparsely, inaccurately, or not at all. Though three students were killed in Orangeburg and 27 others were wounded, the tragedy was effectively ignored by most of the world...