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...Editors of the counterculture's bible were not answering the phones in their Bay Area homes. Uniformed guards were posted at the biweekly's St. Louis printing plant. Randolph Hearst ordered a reporter at his San Francisco Examiner to find out whether the magazine's rumored scoop had anything to do with his daughter Patty. Rolling Stone Founder and Publisher Jann Wenner, 29, told the reporter no and branded the talk as empty gossip...
...Bell Tolls. Earlier in Abyssinia, Evelyn Waugh witnessed Mussolini's campaign against Haile Selassie's antiquated army. Waugh too was no shakes as a journalist-filing his copy in Latin did not ingratiate him with his editors-but he returned from Africa to disguise his experiences in Scoop, still the best satire on journalism ever written...
...Herald. The Times Herald held off publishing its discovery for almost two months to give the FBI a chance to determine its accuracy. The story ran last week, under Johnson's by line, after FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley issued a statement to the Times Herald confirming its scoop. "FBI inquiries to date," declared Kelley, "establish that the note contained no references to President Kennedy or in any way would have forewarned of the subsequent assassination." Kelley added that the bureau's investigations "tend to corroborate that shortly after the assassination, the note in question was destroyed...
...subservience to the "scoop" mentality has caused us to lose our sense of perspective. We need to get it back...
Udall split with Lyndon Johnson on Viet Nam as early as 1967, but foreign policy is not his strong point. Favoring detente in principle, Udall argues, along with Scoop Jackson, that the policy must be a "two-way street." He is hawkish on the side of Israel, which he visited last week. He urged Israel to sign the interim agreement with Egypt "even if signing it is as risky as rejecting it." He has strongly opposed the proposed sale of antiaircraft missiles to Jordan. In place of what he calls "complex, exotic, often unreliable new hardware," he would prefer...