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Gentler Approach. Perhaps perceiving new dangers in a showdown with the impeachment committee, St. Clair seemed to soften his earlier stand. "We are not seeking a confrontation," he told TIME. "It would not be good for the President or the country. I think John Doar and I both believe that adjustments can be made to avoid it. I don't think the committee intends to have a fishing expedition." If this view seemed
Networks-not to mention other news organizations-rarely pillory themselves in public. Don Hewitt, executive producer of 60 Minutes, reports no attempts by CBS executives to soften the intramural slap: "I've not felt any pressure or even heard from anyone at the network, although it's obvious that they knew that we were filming Fanning." (Asked on the show whether CBS was "buying" his opinion, Fanning says: "It just plain isn't true. In the first place, all the networks do it.") Reporter Mike Wallace offers some tart, on-the-air criticism of his network: "Ironically...
Smug Lecture. Tanaka's reply was somewhat evasive; he delivered a smug lecture about Japan's example of hard work and industrial expansion since World War II. He then told the students that in a three-hour meeting with Premier Sanya, he had offered to soften the terms of a $153 million loan and curb overly aggressive and ruthless private Japanese business practices through a new government agency, to be called The Economic Cooperation Ministry. None of this satisfied the students, who left the meeting threatening to "act against every Japanese in Thailand" unless the government acts...
...Gender Dysphoria Program, headed by Psychiatrist Norman Fisk and Plastic Surgeon Donald Laub, applicants for surgery are carefully screened. For those who doctors feel could benefit from an operation, at least a full year of hormonal therapy is prescribed: estrogens and progestins to enlarge the breasts and soften the skin on men, and androgens to deepen the voices and stimulate beards on women...
...sure, Berrigan was harsh with Arab leadership as well ("Their capacity for deception, remarkable even for our world ... their contempt for their own poor"). He also tried to soften his criticism by asserting that as "a priest in resistance against Rome" and as "an American in resistance against Nixon," he was "very like a Jew." Berrigan's remarks, his choice of audience, and his pose as an archetypal Jew infuriated Jewish leaders. Historian Arthur Hertzberg, noting that the Jesuit has never been to Israel, ticked off a number of factual errors made by Berrigan in an angry reply...