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...NATION: Quarrel over Quotas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

During wartime, some people seem to think reporters should put their journalistic duties behind an obligation to support their country, to get "on the team." That is a dubious suggestion at best. No responsible journalist would quarrel with the proposition that certain information -- sensitive intelligence data, secret battle plans -- cannot be published or broadcast without posing a grave risk to American troops. Yet within those security limitations, the press's job is to find out what is actually going on (not just what officials say is going on), no matter whose cause it might or might not advance. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Just Whose Side Are They On? | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...combination of democracy and television may make fighting a war nearly impossible. Seeing war's horrors will turn people against it. There may be something in this. But if so, so be it. If you are worried that dictatorships therefore have an unfair advantage in world - affairs, your quarrel is with democracy, not with journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Trusting Ourselves with the News | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...quarrel is entwined in Catalonian politics. A symbol of the Catholic right, the church was sacked by anarchists in 1936, during Spain's civil war. Gaudi's drawings and plaster models went up in flames, but molds and photographs survived. Architect Jordi Bonet, who supervises the construction budget, says the opponents are "people who don't want a church as the emblem of our city." Moreover, Subirachs has publicly scorned the abstract artists favored by city hall in its Olympic building binge -- and the disdain is mutual. Says poet Joan Brossa: "Gaudi was avant-garde, but Subirachs is retro-garde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heresy Or Homage in Barcelona? | 1/28/1991 | See Source »

...think that the next session of the Communist Party Congress, scheduled for April, will bring change. We know that there are deep divisions, and if the younger reform faction fails -- I don't believe it will -- then there would be an open party quarrel. Most of the army commanders and most of the province leaders are with the reform faction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NGUYEN VAN THIEU: An Echo from America's Last Big War | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

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