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...editor, "publication would have had some negative results." Shortly afterward, TIME learned about the story, but at Colby's personally telephoned request, decided not to run it because of the CIA's claim that it was a legitimate project involving national security. The Washington Post, NBC, ABC, Newsweek and the Washington Star all got wind of the project. In each case, after a call or visit from Colby there was a decision not to go ahead. Last week, however, Jack Anderson, claiming that...
Apparently, the news organizations that agreed to delay the story--which included Time, Newsweek, CBS and NBC--took Colby's word that the operation was important. There is no evidence that any organization tried carefully to establish, on its own, exactly why the CIA needed to recover the codes and warheads from a 17-year-old sub that sank seven years ago. Most of them apparently took the Colby briefings on the importance of the whole affair at face value. Jack Anderson found some experienced naval sources who scoffed at the intelligence value of the sub, which is one reason...
...Something Completely Different. Monty Python finally reached respectability this week, with a two-page spread in Newsweek. Apparently a second Monty Python movie, called Monty Python and the Holy Grail, is showing in Los Angeles, but if you're not going to LA for spring break you'll have to settle for this superb, incredibly funny film. Channel 2 has started showing Monty Python TV episodes and they've been phenomenally successful in the ratings, outdrawing even "Upstairs, Downstairs," so it looks like Dennis Moore and Mr. Verity and the Man From The Cat Detector Van will be around...
...domestic politics. Since the Chinese Revolution, American presidents have assumed that their "mandate" includes an obligation to shore up capitalism everywhere we can. Each has assumed that he must be as tough as "the enemy." But buried in the cover story on Cambodia in the latest Newsweek is a revealing reference to "the White House's puzzling failure to marshall witnesses for Congressional testimony or to lobby key congressman for their support." If the president can't be that tough, he must at least appear that way. Ford apparently does not care for Lon Nol or for the Cambodian people...
...asking the President for a favor-an appointment with Moley. The Brain Trust that he organized shaped Roosevelt's historic policies, but finding himself opposed to massive expansion of federal authority, Moley left the Administration in September 1933 and later broke with the Democratic Party. As author and Newsweek columnist, Moley backed Republicans Willkie, Goldwater and Nixon for President...