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Well, forget it. The Christian Broadcasting Network means to wash all that away in a tide of righteousness. According to a CBN promotion tape, Scott Davidson, quondam hero of CBN's flagship soap opera, Another Life, is not only a media analyst and anchorman of the "7 O'Clock News," he is "unique in the newsroom. Once he was a cynic, like his colleagues a man who was spiritually empty. That's changed. Faith has given Scott the strength to go beyond reporting. Now he gets involved...
...Germany. In his acceptance speech, the Crocodile showed plenty of the old snap. He called Americans "too arrogant" about smaller nations, demanded more freedom for the CIA and lamented the end of the draft as "one of the great casualties of the Viet Nam War." He also chided his quondam Soviet hosts as barbaric "Bolsheviks" determined to subjugate the sturdy people of Afghanistan...
...anti-Nader article for Esquire, but was dissuaded from publishing it by then New Republic Owner Gilbert Harrison, a Nader man. Nader has not talked to Sanford since. He is not likely to do so soon, especially given some of the less than cosmic questions raised by his quondam collaborator...
...soon becomes clear that Mitchell is not about to shoulder the blame and is, in fact, as adept at shifting it as are his quondam colleagues...
...friend of Padilla's who now lives in France, insists that the poet's "selfcriticism could have been signed in only one way: under torture." That is unproven, but one thing is beyond dispute. Padilla's evidently forced recantation only further estranged Castro from his quondam admirers. "The pit between Cuba's leaders and the non-Communist European or Latin American Left is being dug deeper," wrote Marcel Niedergang, a longtime friend and supporter of Castro, in France's Le Monde. For his part, Fidel turned his big-bore verbal artillery against the intellectuals...