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...most serious obstacle to the potential success of the historic compromise. In the face of militant American disapproval and sanctions, menanced by CIA infiltration and influence, Italians understandably fear that their country may become another Chile. Their fears are well supported by the American press, judging from a recent Newsweek cover. America already considers Italy another Vietnam...
...charges levelled at the excerpts are essentially right: the portions printed in Time and Newsweek do amount to a lurid, distorted account of the last days of the Nixon White House. But they don't represent the book very well, either...
Three summers ago, Newsweek let fly with a cover story that set a record for that magazine's newsstand sales, a record not broken until last week...
That issue sold furiously. People were apparently relieved to see a woman spilling out of a bathing suit after weeks of Watergate faces squinting and grimacing under the Newsweek cover logo. In the eleven weeks before the Singles story, Newsweek had printed eight Watergate covers, splashed with pictures of John Dean (twice in a row), Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, McCord, and, three times, a dejected-looking Richard Nixon. After all that, people were desperate to read about swinging singles...
...covers later, Newsweek has shattered the sales record of the Singles issue with a cover featuring . . . three pictures of a dejected-looking Richard Nixon. That cover, which ran last week, was promotion for the first installment of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's "The Final Days," an account of Nixon's activities as he fell from power, if not exactly grace. The second and last installment appears this week, and it is much like the first: compelling, gossip-laden, well-assembled, badly-written (if only Gay Talese could have purchased their notes), and, because the information confirms everything people suspected...