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Finally Gueiler, who had been a confidante of Chile's late Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens, caved in to Garcia Meza's demand, appointing Rocha Patino to the army post last week. He obligingly proclaimed that the protesting officers were now ready "to bear with dignity and stoicism whatever sacrifices are demanded by the democratic cause." But Rocha Patifto's statement, cynics noted, was at best a rather lukewarm endorsement of Gueiler's fledgling regime...
...perverse passion that motivates Deborah Davis's Katherine the Great. While other authors have at least waited until their respective targets were safely settled in their graves before knocking them off their pedestals, Davis spares no such restraint in her heedless rush to profit from the "sins" of Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham. Forget the tales about Graham risking the family newspaper to take on the house that Nixon built. From Davis's perspective, Watergate stemmed not from the dictates of journalistic integrity but from the arrogance of a woman piqued by a presidential spurning of her peacepipe...
...blame for Graham's supposed servility on one event, however traumatic, seems risky at best--irresponsible at worst. And Davis cannot produce any convincing evidence that Graham does dance to the Administration's beat. The Washington Post did smugly support Johnson's Vietnam policy on its editorial pages, but so did countless other newspapers. Calling Graham servile because The Post supported LBJ's Vietnam policy is patently absurd. Nor does Davis propound any solid evidence that Graham acutally bends her news coverage toward the pleasures of her "father figure" in the White House...
...questions, if not attacks, every move of its leaders, bears little resemblance to its timid predecessor. The Fourth Estate has mushroomed into an institution powerful enough to engineer a President's downfall. Davis's failure to consider this development on the press's part (not to mention the Post's part) exemplifies her inability to reach beyond the biases and assumptions of conspiratorial politics...
Although they left the record books unopened, the 880 relay team of Forman, Pat Gopaul, Lenny Yajima, and Alida Castillo as well as the one-mile relay squad of Yajima, Clabby, Forman and Newnham, both overwhelmed the struggling UNH batoneers to post victories...