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Such concessions have cost Begin some support among right-wing Israelis. Last week one of his closest friends and aides, Shmuel Katz, resigned, fearing the negotiations were leading to a "sellout of Israel's basic interests." The outspoken and often abrasive Katz, who has been serving as Begin's information adviser, was also miffed because Begin had not supported him for a Cabinet appointment. Said he: "I no longer have a common language with the Prime Minister...
Chancellor, when he becomes a commentator, aspires to be outspoken-to present a brief as a lawyer would and end "by making a good point." He recalls the bolder broadcasts of Elmer Davis and Edward R. Murrow, and wonders why radio seems to permit freer comment than television. But were the old ones really bolder? Salant doubts it. Murrow, he says, insisted on a fairness and objectivity clause in his contract; he departed only once from this self-imposed standard, when he persuaded CBS's top brass to let him make his famous televised attack on Senator Joseph McCarthy...
Oxford University denied Lewis a professorship because his popular writings were deemed unseemly-as, indeed, was his outspoken Christianity. (He moved to a chair at Cambridge late in his career.) But Lewis has survived Oxford's judgment handsomely. Sales of Lewis' works in Britain and the U.S. have increased sixfold since his death, and this year readers in both countries will take home more than 2 million Lewis volumes. Says Lady Priscilla Collins, one of Lewis' publishers in Britain: "The trend...
DIED. William C. Sullivan, 65, former No. 3 man at the FBI who became an outspoken critic of Director J. Edgar Hoover; of a gunshot wound received while deer hunting near his home in Sugar Hill, N.H. As head of the domestic intelligence division for a decade, Sullivan was involved in many abuses including "black bag" operating and illegal wiretapping of National Security Council phones that were later revealed by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Though long a loyal lieutenant of Hoover's in his obsessive war against Communism, Sullivan later criticized Hoover's extremist views and retired...
...week's end both sides were moving to cool it. Carter at his press conference went out of his way to praise Burns as an "able, outspoken and independent man" and agree with him that business profits should be going up faster. Federal Reserve officials, on their part, stressed that an increase last week in the discount rate?the interest rate on federal loans to banks?from 5%% to 6%, was not intended to defy the White House. The increase had been decided on before the Schultze statement was posted on the pressroom wall; it was only half as large...