Word: posts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last winter when the U.S. embassy in Tehran was seized by anti-Shah Iranians and the American Ambassador in Afghanistan was killed by terrorists, Defense Secretary Harold Brown was touring the West Bank of the Jordan River. His helicopter landed at an Israeli army post, and Brown went to a phone to talk with his deputy secretary in Washington. As soon as Brown finished his conversation, someone asked him if he intended to cut his trip short and return immediately to the Pentagon. "No," he said flatly. "Charles Duncan is there." Last week that trusted deputy was named...
Yesterday counselors tried to acquaint the foreign students with their surroundings by taking them to banks, the post office, the swimming pool, restaurants and supply stores, and showing them how to use the transportation system, the libraries and the phones...
Marley was once shot and wounded for his political activity in Jamaica. Consequently, at this concert everyone was checked by a metal detector on entering the stadium. Fifty security men surrounded Marley as they escorted him to and from his post-performance press conference. When Marley is on stage, there is unity, but when he is offstage there is fear. When he starts playing, he is bigger than life, when he stops he is again vulnerable, and those around him seem to know this. There is a customary search before many rock concerts, but at Marley's the search...
When journalists try to catch Kennedy off base on specific issues, notes Esquire National Editor Richard Reeves, he "can be creatively incoherent." Elaborates David Broder, the Washington Post's national political columnist...
...cottage industry employing 17 reporters. He is seen five times a week on ABC's Good Morning America his columm appears in 942 papers.. He can thus afford to laugh at the fact in the nation's captital 30 years ago, an editor of the Washington Post ordered pearson's columm banished to the comic pages, " where it belongs." Several years ago, the post offered to put Anderson's columm on its more prestigous Op-Ed page, but Anderson, who figures that the comic page is better read, declined...