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...part, Grandmaison blamed his ouster on his colleagues' preference for the electronic media at the expense of an essential, if costly, grass-roots organization. Says he: "A lot of it had to do with my inability to persuade Bill White to make the necessary investment to build a field campaign." The two men began feuding in earnest last month, when White decided to close the California staff office and cut back funds in Wisconsin...
...resolution also condemns Iraqi bombing of civilian targets in Iran. Yet the Iranians, who are angry at France for selling Iraq five Super Etendard fighter-bombers as well as Exocet air-to-surface missiles, were not impressed. Tehran still insists that the price of peace with Iraq is the ouster of the man who started the war, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein...
Democrats last week introduced a "sense of the Senate" resolution, to be taken up next week, demanding Watt's ouster. Republican Senators met for their regular weekly lunch and concluded that they, too, wanted Watt out. It had been thought that dismissing Watt would anger Western conservatives, an important constituency for Reagan. But at the lunch, one Western Senator after another reported that the Interior Secretary had lost his popularity among their constituents, and that appeared to decide the matter. Said one Republican later: "He's gone...
...widely read of West Germany's four major pictorial magazines and the only one with serious, if erratic, journalistic ambitions. Stern was thrust into international notoriety in April as the publisher and purveyor of forged diaries purportedly written by Adolf Hitler. The diaries fiasco, which led to the ouster of two top editors, has cost the magazine about 10% of its circulation, an estimated $3.8 million in circulation and advertising income, and much of its credibility among fellow reporters...
...global village," with newscasters focusing on diverse stories as they viewed the world from different places. Arledge's decentralized vision was taken up, in part, by CBS News under Sauter, who downplayed Washington and Government in favor of more geographically varied news. In Mudd's view, his ouster by NBC also reflects "an anti-Washington bias." But NBC News President Frank insists he moved Mudd mainly because the show "looked like two decks of cards being riffled together." Sums up Frank: "The two-anchor program was not coherent...