Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This was the year of the Core. You've all heard of it, but you probably don't understand it. Don't worry--you're not alone. After the nation's press got through trumpeting the Core as a major educational revolution, it's a wonder anyone could figure...
...step backward, a mess, enough to make one nauseous." So said Shahpour Bakhtiar, the Shah's last Prime Minister, at a 90-minute press conference in Paris, where he emerged from a half-year of hiding to denounce the revolutionary government that toppled him in February after barely more than a month in office. Bakhtiar, who is on the regime's wanted list of former officials charged with high crimes, accused Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini of lacking "a master idea" for Iran and predicted that the waste and corruption under the Islamic government "will surpass" anything seen...
...large group of editors, Wriston has criticized the press because "it often remains silent, or sometimes greets with approval the steady infringement of any right that does not involve free speech. One of the great unreported stories of the past 30 years is the steady erosion of individual rights that is turning us into a different kind of country. If we put a floor under wages and a ceiling over prices, a free man cannot long stand erect. Someone has to make it clear that the collision course between Government price and wage controls and personal liberty is inevitable because...
...more of it that the Republic could become a totally different kind of society. For Wriston is quite right when he argues that economic freedom is essential to all freedom. As he puts it, "To think that the bell does not toll for academic freedom or freedom of the press if economic freedom is shackled is a dangerous illusion...
Such misses undermine one of Chandler's goals: to make the rest of the country take California, and the Times, seriously. The Eastern press ignored a frontpage Times story on June 29 revealing that former HEW Secretary Joseph Califano had been reprimanded by Vice President Mondale at the request of Carter. A month later Califano's departure came as too much of a surprise to much of Washington. "Had the story got East Coast play," says Times Washington Bureau Chief Jack Nelson, "it would undoubtedly have had more impact." Chandler's growing presence in the Greater...