Word: newsweek
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...week's targets were Héctor Julio Flores Larin, a P.C.N. representative in the Constituent Assembly, and Tito Adalberto Rosa, a campaign coordinator for the ultraconservative Salvadoran Authentic Institutional Party. Another victim of the civil war last week was Gamma/Liaison Photographer John Hoagland, 36, on assignment for Newsweek, who was killed during a clash between guerrillas and government forces about 20 miles from the capital of San Salvador...
DIED. John Hoagland, 36, photographer for the Gamma-Liaison agency on assignment for Newsweek; of a gunshot wound suffered during a skirmish between government and guerrilla forces; near Suchitoto, El Salvador. Hoagland, a Central American specialist who had just been reassigned after a month's stint in Lebanon, was noted for his military knowledge and striking action photographs. He is the tenth foreign journalist killed in El Salvador in the past four years...
...remember, of course, Casper W. Weinberger '38 and George Shultz. They first made it big in the halcyon days of the Nixon White House Cap was "Cap the Knife," Nixon's "chief executor of sacred cows," in Newsweek's words. A fiscal conservative, but a Rockefeller liberal, they said, a man who took the surgeon's knife to the vast bureaucracy at the Federal Trade Commission, then the Office of Management and Budget, and finally the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. "He's no ideologue," said one liberal congressman when Weinberger was named Defense Secretary three years...
...Haig as Secretary of State Shultz was the giant of domestic policy in the Nixon Administration--"a careful listener, a former academic who has become, in the estimate of his friends in government and business, a master manager with an uncanny knack for getting the best of people," said Newsweek. His resume was as impressive if not more so than Weinbergers': Secretary of Labor, head of the Office of Management Budget, and Secretary of the Treasury, where he negotiated a trade agreement with the Russians, making influential friends in European capitals along...
This policy has been vividly illustrated in the case of Drane Mathews, as reported in a recent Newsweek article. A student at the University of Maine at Orono, Matthews previously served in the Army where she earned a Good Conduct Medal, a certificate of achievement, and the Distinguished Soldier's Award. She returned to school and joined ROTC in order to gain the skills necessary for further advancement in the Army. Her career was ended, however, when she asked permission to attend the local gay students group. In justifying its expulsion of Matthews, the military maintained that she could...