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...cancel the second segment of an Evening News report on Watergate, the result of White House pressure. The report finally ran but at about half its planned length. Yet CBS has since aired excellent public-affairs programs and has just returned the highly regarded 60 Minutes to regular prune time...
Whether Correia Jesuino will get a chance to prune Lisbon's press, or impose a censorship plan, is another question. The seven state-owned dailies are believed to be losing both readers and revenues, while Jorno Novo has been gaining circulation, from an initial 40,000 last spring to some 100,000. Raul Rego, whose República was seized by its Communist printers, plans to launch a new Socialist paper next month, aptly named O Luta (The Struggle). By then, however, there may well be a new Premier, and many Portuguese journalists hope that covering the news will...
...Gandhi insisted that the abrupt suppression of political dissent was "not a personal matter. It is not important whether I remain Prime Minister or not. However, the institution of the Prune Minister is important." Despite the argument, many Western critics felt that the imperious Mrs. Gandhi-rather like Richard Nixon during the Watergate crisis-had come to identify her own survival in office with the office itself. As the president of her ruling Congress...
...party politics. Throughout the two-month campaign, Wilson was virtually isolated from the power base that supported him through twelve years as party chief. Most of the major trade-union leaders, the party's national executive committee and more than half of the Labor M.P.s publicly opposed the Prune Minister on the issue. Wilson and such fellow Labor pro-Europeans as Home Secretary Roy Jenkins and Education Minister Reginald Prentice were forced into an informal coalition with Conservative and Liberal Party leaders, who almost unanimously supported the pro-Market cause...
Instead of sending Christmas cards this year, quite a number of the world's leaders are saying their greetings in person. Last week, in an extraordinary burst of summitry, it seemed as if any President or Prune Minister worth a Gallup poll was either visiting someplace else or playing host to a foreign visitor-with everybody packing bags for still more trips to come...