Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think I have ever before agreed with Howard K. Smith to the extent that I felt the need to write about it. But I am so moved by his feeling about the American press. Sitting out back here gives me a perspective I didn't have when I was in the midst of it. I am convinced that the metropolitan editors and byliners are snobs, fearful that if they don't join the prevailing intellectual line they will be considered "mere reporters." What happened to the guys who used to stick pins into pomposity...
...Essentially Evil." Under a stringent new Law and Order Maintenance Act that makes even the possession of terrorist weapons a capital offense, the number of Africans awaiting execution in Rhodesia has risen to 115 since se cession (v. only twelve before). Prime Minister Ian Smith's white minority regime, unsure of its authority and fearful of casting itself in the role of judicial murderer, had refrained from carrying out the sentences. Then, two weeks ago, Rhodesia's high court ruled that the noose could be used, since the Smith regime was a de facto government. British Prime Minister...
...executions caused a wave of revulsion. In the British Parliament, Smith and his government were condemned as "traitors" and "gangsters," and demands were made that they be punished. Prime Minister Wilson bitterly assailed the Rhodesian leaders as "essentially evil," and in Rome Pope Paul VI deplored their indifference to "reasons of humanity." At the United Nations, the U.S., which had just denied Smith a visitor's visa, called the executions an "outrageous act." Black African nations unleashed an oratorical storm, calling on Britain and the U.N. Security Council to use force if necessary to prevent more executions...
...even bother to propose more economic sanctions. Those already used by Britain and the United Nations have proved ineffective in either throttling Rhodesia's economy or getting Rhodesia's whites to move gradually to black rule. By increasingly copying South Africa's tough apartheid methods, Smith's ruling Rhodesian Front stifles most political opposition and restricts most Africans to their tribal reserves and townships. Last week's defiance of Britain will certainly embolden the right-wingers in Smith's government to press the regime to declare Rhodesia a republic and thus make final...
...Viet Nam footage he screened on his CBS newscast one night last week was particularly poignant for Walter Cronkite. It showed a mortar bar rage at the Khe Sanh airstrip that wounded both the co-producer of his show, Russ Bensley, and CBS Cameraman John Smith. Neither Smith nor Bensley, who was filling in for an injured CBS sound man at the time, was seriously hurt. But three days later, after evacuation to Danang, Producer Bensley was wounded again during a rocket attack. His colon was ruptured and his spleen had to be removed. "The irony of it," said...