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...lawmakers whose faces will be on the evening news. Last week the Capitol was unveiling a major new restoration−the old Senate chamber has been returned to its 19th century splendor, replete with red plush benches and coffered half-dome ceiling−just as it was when it rang with the debates of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun...
...August I had to return home to handle some unfinished business. The day after I arrived, we-were eating breakfast when the doorbell rang. Suddenly a black man entered the room and introduced himself as Ted Patrick. The church had warned us that Patrick kidnaped people, gagged, beat them and tried to "deprogram" them...
...many times, I wondered as the phone rang, had Abe Rosenthal dragged others to the telephone after midnight? Wouldn't he expect his own reporters to show the same tenacity in obtaining a story? But Rosenthal's muffled "hello" and his ensuing crankiness were excusable. He temporarily forgot the many times he had been on the other end of the phone...
After the Nieman dinner--a five-hour session of cocktails, roast beef, wine and more cocktails--Rosenthal headed for bed at the Statler-Hilton Hotel. Just after he fell asleep, the phone rang. I apologized for calling so late an hour...
...military junta had not wasted any time in showing their repressive intentions, and after the bloody coup which overthrew Allende in September of 1973 quickly turned Chile into a murderous police state. The horrified reaction of the world press to the Chilean repression was widespread and still rang loudly in the ears of Videla and his co-conspirators. In addition, a U.S. Senate committee had just published its findings of CIA involvement in the Chilean coup, and the image of a murderous Pinochet aided by CIA support had become prevalent in an uncomfortable U.S. press...