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Rather later spent six years as a correspondent on 60 Minutes; his pugnacious style fitted well in the show that invented confrontation journalism. But Rather's sights were set higher. As retirement approached for Evening News veteran Anchorman Walter Cronkite, Rather and Roger Mudd emerged as the two chief contenders to replace him. Though close to the same age, the pair seemed to represent different eras of TV journalism. Mudd was cerebral and low-key, the well-connected Washington insider. Rather was the brash, high-profile network terrier -- and an undeniable star. Sometimes too much the star. For one well...
Ailes has been coaching Bush since 1985, teaching him to slow his speech and keep his voice from rising to a reedy whine. At Ailes' urging, Bush painfully learned what not to do by watching hours of his awkward TV appearances. Ailes spent a week priming Bush for his announcement speech and was with Bush before the Rather interview, which Ailes had insisted be live, and suggested the cool counterpunch about Rather's walkout. "If a reporter is bullying you, the viewers at home may start to root for you," Ailes advises in his book You Are the Message...
...alleged evidence was unveiled last week by Yugoslav Historian Dusan Plenca, 63, who has spent more than 40 years studying the World War II campaigns in his country and has published seven books on the subject. Says he: "As far as I am concerned, Kurt Waldheim's role on Mount Kozara has been proved." Plenca has turned over his Waldheim documents to Yugoslav Journalist Danko Vasovic, who plans to publish them in the spring. But Vasovic apparently could not wait to spread the news. Last week he sold the publication rights for the controversial telegram and other materials...
...commission has received little help from Plenca, who refused to share the document with the panel. Plenca questions the panel's methods, declaring, "They spent two hours a day for two days in the archives in Belgrade. How can that be compared to my investigations of 40 years?" True enough. But unless impartial experts are permitted to examine the telegram and other evidence thoroughly, his charges against Waldheim will remain clouded...
...participation. Ortega then flew to Rome, where he had a 30-minute private audience with Pope John Paul II. It was the first meeting between the two men since the Pontiff's tense visit to Nicaragua in 1983, and the welcome was decidedly chilly. Speaking in Spanish, the Pope spent much of the time lecturing Ortega on the right of Nicaraguans to live under a "real democracy." Joked Ortega afterward: "It was certainly colder today in Rome than in Nicaragua...