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...half-crouch, squeezed off shots from his .357 magnum. There were screams. Onlookers scattered. The car slued into a line of coffins, knocking one over, and finally rolled to a halt, after coming within ten feet of French Defense Minister Charles Hernu. The incident last week climaxed an otherwise solemn military funeral at the Toulouse-Francazal airbase for the nine French paratroopers killed in Chad. The grieving brother of one of the dead soldiers had tried to run down the Minister...
Even so tethered a watchdog was too fierce for the New York Times, a worthy paper much given to solemn defenses of its own probity. To submit to inside-the-craft judgments, the Times said, "would encourage an atmosphere of regulation. We will not furnish information or explanations to the council." That powerful opposition effectively doomed the council from the start. Richard Salant, then president of CBS News, criticized the Times for being "so goddam hard-nosed. I take the position that everyone has the right to look over my shoulder except the Government." But, Salant added, many...
After Reagan's election, Allen telephoned me. He expected to be Reagan's adviser for national security affairs?a job he had also expected to have under President Nixon in 1969, only to be beaten out by a more solemn man, Henry Kissinger. Allen said I was a candidate for a Cabinet post. The first position mentioned was that of Secretary of Defense. I pointed out that military men are prohibited for a ten-year period after leaving active duty from becoming Secretary of Defense. General of the Army George Marshall's appointment in 1950 required a special...
made it its policy from the start to stay away from solemn discussions of the great issues and problems of the day, on the grounds that such discussions had no place in its humorous pages...
...Soviet bureaucracy and the mendacity and corruption that invade everyday life. In The Compromise the author comically contrasts the news stories written by a Soviet journalist with what actually occurred. For example, a published report on the funeral of a high Communist Party official ("Above the open grave the solemn words of leave-taking were pronounced") is followed by an account of public consternation at the obsequies after it is discovered that a morgue attendant has put the wrong body in the open coffin...