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...York Times, Columnist James Reston reported that some of Lance's Georgia colleagues were "privately and sadly...conceding that he is embarrassing the President and will probably have to go." In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal concluded that the major issue is not the questions the Lance affair raises about Banker Bert but the questions it raises about Jimmy Carter. Said the paper of the President: "The central question is not so much 'Is he honest?' as 'Does he know what he's doing...
...Times's foreign reporting remains unrivaled among newspapers. Timesman Sydney Schanberg's files from Cambodia won a Pulitzer in 1976, and James Markham's dispatches last year from war-torn Beirut should have. But the Washington bureau, the fief of Arthur Krock in the 1940s and '50s, then James Reston in the '50s and '60s, was overshadowed during Watergate by the Washington Post, now its chief rival on the national scene. The New York paper has recovered somewhat, beating the Post to major Washington scoops about CIA domestic spying and drug experimentation on unwitting civilians. The Post has been giving...
...never been a budget. One of Sulzberger's first, and gutsiest, moves was to shut down the hemorrhaging West Coast edition. More important, he started diversifying the Times by buying Cowles Communications, with its lucrative magazines (Family Circle, Golf Digest) and small newspapers. Diversification, according to Columnist James Reston, has been Sulzberger's shrewdest move to date. "With more of the company's earnings coming from outside the paper," says Reston, "Punch could confront the unions with the fact that we could take a strike if necessary...
...James Reston, L.H.D., columnist...
...long been at work on his memoirs, minutely scouring his presidential records with the aid of his personal research staff. Frost assembled his own research group, which amassed an imposing quantity of material. He hired Robert Zelnick, 36, a Washington journalist and lawyer, to head the team. James Reston Jr., 36, co-author with Frank Mankiewicz of Perfectly Clear: Nixon from Whittier to Watergate and son of the New York Times editor, was assigned to concentrate on Watergate, and Washington Freelance Writer Phil Stanford to focus on abuses of power. John Birt, 32, a London TV news executive, produced...