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...their roles on Today will be different. McGee insisted on being the sole host. "Frank had trouble working with a woman at first," explained Barbara Walters. Jim has no reservations about being Barbara's cohost, nor has he any plans yet for suggesting format changes. "I seldom get to see the show," he said somewhat sheepishly, "because I'm a late sleeper...
...Another, less likely possibility is the old idea of double enosis-or taksim, in Turkish-under which Greek enclaves would be annexed to Athens and Turkish zones to Ankara. One difficulty is that ownership of land on Cyprus is so intermixed between Greeks and Turks that neighbors who have seldom agreed on anything would be unlikely to agree on which country controlled individual tracts of real estate...
...notion that the President cannot be heard in the roar of negative stories is of course a myth. The Nixon Administration, any Administration, has vast powers of communication. Nixon can and periodically does command network prime time to present his case. He can hold press conferences as often (or seldom) as he likes, schedule speeches before predictably friendly audiences, grant interviews to sympathetic correspondents. Like his predecessors, he can release information selectively...
...their province of "suppressing and dividing" the citizens. Without giving details, they alluded to clashes in which four were killed, many wounded and scores arrested. One poster named Hua Kuo-feng, the Communist Party boss of Hunan and a member of China's Politburo, as the culprit. Seldom in the current campaign have wall posters dared to attack top-level officials by name. Only a few hours after that poster went up, it was ripped down. This sequence of events has led veteran China watchers to conclude that the radicals still have powerful opposition from the moderates...
...feared Tonton Macoute, members of the squad are almost always dressed in sports shirts and wear dark glasses even at night. They are given to cruising Kampala streets in their Peugeots, stopping occasionally to pick up a suspect. The unlucky victim is pushed into the car, driven off and seldom seen again...