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...Danny Schecter, news director of WBCN radio and Nieman Fellow, said last night that "angry disruptive activity" on the part of Americans is needed to influence United States policy towards South Africa...
...thing U.S. foreign policy makers don't want is a repeat of the Vietnam anti-war movement," Schecter said. Addressing a group of about 35 at Adams House, the "news dissecter" added, "People in this room have more power than they know to influence policy...
...minute speech, Schecter said there are frequent distortions in American reporting on South Africa, and outlined the history and approach of American government policy in the region...
Bonnie Angelo, covering the White House, found the Carter people in their new quarters "as amiable and open as they were in Plains." She was also struck by "the overnight transformation of colleague into source." TIME's Jerrold Schecter has moved from his diplomatic beat to the newly created Administration post of Associate Press Secretary for the National Security Council...
Meanwhile, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who succeeded Schecter, was already bulldogging Vice President Fritz Mondale on an Air Force Two tour of allied capitals. Talbott has served in Moscow and Eastern Europe, and also covered Henry Kissinger's visit to Peking in 1975. Mondale's on-the-record briefing took place in the same mid-fuselage lounge in which Kissinger used to dispense background information attributable only to "a senior U.S. official." Comparing the experienced diplomat's style with that of the new Vice President, Correspondent Talbott headed his file: "An Old Plane Under New Management...