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...flown on a bombing run in Viet Nam and been wounded by gunfire in Mexico. She boldly interrogated Lieut. General Nguyen Van Thieu about the corruption of his regime, and she lured Secretary of State Henry Kissinger into describing himself as a lone gunslinger on a horse. She is Oriana Fallaci, 45, world-roving and world-renowned practitioner of the clawing interview. A small and frenetic figure in slacks and a faded maroon corduroy jacket, she swept into her Rome office from an Athens flight one recent morning, dumped her suitcases on the floor, answered a number of telephone calls...
Until recently, independence had been an issue for only a few malcontents. Now and then somebody would scrawl the initials F.L.A.-for Frentede Libertação Açoriana, the Azorian Liberation Front-across a road...
Ford's office is inundated by requests for appearances anywhere and everywhere. Congressmen plead and threaten for audiences. And in the mail the other day came a dispatch from Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist who has performed verbal lobotomies on many of the world's great men, the newswoman who warmly coaxed Henry Kissinger into describing himself as a kind of diplomatic Lone Ranger. Oriana Fallaci has found a place in her crowded schedule to request an interview with Jerry Ford...
...ended and his diplomacy is in ruins." An aide to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee accused Kissinger of fishing for sympathetic support: "He's playing the aggrieved party again, moping around, looking hurt and betrayed and talking about Greek tragedy." Recalling Kissinger's description of himself to Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, the aide added, "So the cowboy in the white hat and on the white horse has become the Greek tragic hero cursed by the gods...
...well-publicized dates with such Hollywood lovelies as Mario Thomas and Samantha Eggar to establish Kissinger as a "secret swinger." When Kissinger's role is less engaging, newsmen tend to look the other way. The press scarcely dwelt on Kissinger's embarrassing 1973 interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, in which he saw himself as a "cowboy-alone astride his horse." There was little journalistic wincing, either, over Kissinger's extravagant remark at Salzburg that he hoped his diplomatic efforts would mean that "perhaps some mothers can rest more at ease"-a thought that would have brought...