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...Amin Dada, Uganda's self-appointed President for Life, addressing a crowd of supporters and newsmen: "I wanted to assure you that whatever has been said about violations of so-called human rights doesn't exist here. Since you came, how many people have you found dead...
...directive also reaffirms the list of dos and don'ts for American agents that was signed two years ago by President Ford. It sets no limits on a CIA practice that attracted heavy criticism during recent congressional hearings: the use of newsmen, students or clergymen as agents. Though the general policy is not to use them, the White House asserts that it did not want specifically to single out any groups for exclusion. But agents cannot interview people in the U.S. without identifying themselves as spooks. Nor can the CIA, using a seemingly innocuous business firm as cover overseas...
Burns, accompanied by Miller, returned to the Federal Reserve Building on Constitution Avenue. There, Burns hastily assembled a meeting of top staffers to break the news. Miller was then ushered in to be introduced. At 5 p.m., Carter went before newsmen to announce the switch, with both Miller and Burns present. Burns asserted: "Mr. President, you have chosen wisely and well," then returned to Florida without once passing through his office...
...about 1977's choice. Indeed, the world's press watched as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat helicoptered to the Pyramids on the edge of the desert and joined Photographer David Hume Kennerly to pose for the formal portrait that opens TIME's story. Close to 1,000 newsmen who were camped at the nearby Mena House Hotel to cover the peace talks watched our Man of the Year come and go. "After Sadat's journey to Jerusalem in November, our choice was all but inevitable," says World Editor John Elson, who oversaw the Man of the Year...
...critic and confidant to the powerful. "The whole spectrum of reporting today is so violently anti-Establishment that anyone who attempts to set the facts out becomes an apologist," he complains. Madigan also likes to give his colleagues a taste of the same medicine they administer to city hall. "Newsmen tear everyone else apart, but they can't stand criticism themselves," says Madigan, who mails transcripts of his broadcasts to leading Chicago journalists. "I want to rub their noses in it." In a mere 12½ minutes a week, he certainly does that...