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...result of Watergate could be a clearer understanding in the country as well as in Washington of the role of a free press in a free society (see PRESS). There will be "adversary" elements in the relationship between the press and any President, but the Nixon Administration has been paranoiac on the subject. Until the past fortnight, the White House was treating journalistic pursuit of the Watergate story as though it were malicious or downright unpatriotic. In his April 30 speech, belatedly but generously, the President actually praised the press for its work in exposing Watergate. Ron Ziegler picked...
...book, to be published in June, is Horst von Maltitiz's scholarly The Evolution of Hitler's Germany (McGraw-Hill; $12.50), which examines the whole narcissistic era of German history bracketed by the Napoleonic Wars and the end of World War II. The epoch was one of paranoiac suspicion, which turned Germany inward toward its own bravado traditions and Ubermensch philosophy...
...recent visit to China. "The Chinese system," he admitted, "is achieving a much greater degree of practical success than most Americans, and certainly I, had supposed." Coming from an old China hand, a staunch defender of Chiang Kaishek, a relentless past critic of Mao Tse-tung's "disordered, paranoiac government," Alsop's new tone-both in print and on the rostrum-comes across as a marked mellowing. But he is still the master of the ominous prediction; he asserted that the Soviets will decide within three years whether or not to go to war with China...
...That poor Houston ticket clerk never had a chance," Dallas Psychiatrist David Hubbard said last week. "He defied the first rule in dealing with a paranoiac-never crowd him or move at him suddenly-and got an instant, deadly education...
...contrast to their earlier, almost paranoiac secrecy, the Soviets now talk more freely about their space program. At one interview, the chief scientists of Russia's recent Mars and Venus probes...