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...certain countries. There have been multinational corporations that have abandoned their installations and left Portugal. this is an absolute contradiction to the assurances made by the Portuguese government and the Revolutionary Council. We fulfill our obligations. We respect foreign investment. Our press [which frequently attacks capitalism] has a certain sensationalist aspect. But where else in the world does this not occur-and even worse...
Culter said it is an effort to present a view "other than the sensationalist one seen in the six o'clock news...
...Nixon administration and its supporters may consider foreign policy to be its saving grace: the bright spot that diverts attention from a Watergate-laden home front. This may be true of Kissinger's sensationalist exploits in the Middle East, but the foreign conduct that the American people do not see makes it clear that the Nixon administration and American policy-makers since World War II are guilty of the most shameful and treacherous of crimes against the people of their own country and people throughout the world...
THERE IS ALSO no justification for the press's coverage of the SLA--biased, sexist, sensationalist, and superficial. The Boston Globe has devoted three days of features this week to a popular psychology-type diagnosis of Patricia Hearst's emotional development. In The Globe, she is described as dependent and weak-willed. The Los Angeles Times last February called her self-reliant and "a classic beauty." References to the sexual mores of the SLA women abound. Even Vin McLellan, a Boston Phoenix writer who has thoroughly reported the background of Donald DeFreeze, belittles the SLA for misspellings in their documents...
Further persistence by those students who have protested embarrasses themselves more than Professor Kiely, and The Crimson's sensationalist coverage of this matter degrades the paper as well as Kiely and his students. Professor Robert Kiely is one of the most concerned and interested men, one of the finest teachers and administrators, in Harvard University, and I hope other students who have known him through this or other courses will support him against the insulting allegations passed in the last three days. Lewis E. Cobbs'75 Quincy House