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...weeks ago the campaign reached an unusual pitch in Moscow. At a government-sponsored press conference in Friendship House, a panel of prominent Jews appeared before foreign newsmen to explain an anti-Zionist statement that had been signed by 52 of them, including Bolshoi Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. Their statement declared that Zionism "expressed the chauvinist views and racist ravings of the Jewish bourgeoisie...
...concern and criticism over the U.S. role in Laos. Last week, amid congressional warnings that the nation might be slipping into another Viet Nam situation, the Administration decided to strip a good deal of the secrecy from its operation in Laos. At Richard Nixon's Key Biscayne hideaway, newsmen were handed a six-page, 3,000-word presidential statement that spelled out in detail for the first time the extent of America's involvement in the divided Southeast Asian country. The key points made in the statement and in a briefing by a White House official after...
Named after Godfrey Sperling Jr., news manager of the Washington bureau of the Christian Science Monitor, "Breakfast with Godfrey" has become a Washington institution. Since 1966, when he invited his old friend Charles Percy to lunch with a few fellow newsmen, Sperling has organized 121 breakfasts, including three last week. Invariably, they are held at 8:15 in the President's Room at the National Press Club. Only 20 reporters-the number that fits the table-are invited. Invariably, the guest finds that he is the main course as the newsmen grill him for 75 minutes...
...newsmen, finding no openings around the breakfast table, have set up their own group in opposition. "We were really getting clobbered," recalls Jack Germond, Washington bureau chief for the Gannett newspapers. "So in self-defense we set up 'Political Writers for a Democratic Society.' We've had about eight or nine dinners, with people like Finch, Rogers Morton, Muskie...
...film up to then have prepared for the increasing abstraction and breaking-up that dominate the ending. Superficially connected by dramatic relationships, the shots are actually as distinct from each other as the five-minute montage of locations that ends Eclipse. In the airport footage, each group (police, newsmen, airport workers) is given its own turf and its own shot-the camerawork never connects them, and the soundtrack stresses their diverse functions and attitudes. Cross-cutting between Daria's final drive to Phoenix and Mark's return to L. A. stresses spatial differences and dissimilarity of direction and movement, widening...