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...Newsweek's own pages by Columnist Milton Friedman for giving a "most misleading impression." The following week's cover billed the "final days" of Leonid Brezhnev, and based the story on an unconfirmed report of a stroke supposedly suffered by the Soviet President. Said an upset Newsweek staffer recently: "The guy's still alive and planning to go to summit meetings, but weeks ago we buried him." Newsweek's June 7 cover called attention to a significant school of contemporary painting, realism. But the illustration, by distinguished Artist William Bailey, was a portrait of a half...
...then came the worst bit," said one royal staffer. Prince Philip, who prides himself on his skill with the reins, had volunteered to drive the First Lady in a carriage. According to the British, one of her aides naively objected: "She couldn't possibly do that. People might say she was trying to be queen." Prince Philip's offer was eventually accepted. The British briskly refused an American request to allow photographs of Mrs. Reagan with the Queen in Her Majesty's private quarters. "No, that is not the way we do it," a royal aide starchily...
...Kissinger was obsessed with undermining the influence of Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Secretary of State William Rogers by denigrating them behind their backs and excluding them from major policy matters. "Cutting out Mel Laird is what we did for a living," says former Kissinger Staffer Laurence Lynn. Hersh says that Laird was bypassed in the decision to bomb Cambodia...
PERHAPS, PROBABLY. But considering the difficulty this moderate piece of legislation has had, a more liberal bill, as one McKinney staffer says, "is just not going to happen." The Amerasian Immigration Act appears the best practical hope for these children...
...demise of the Star signaled the failure of two widely noted experiments by its editor since 1978, Stephen Isaacs, 44, a longtime Washington Post staffer. Isaacs' "newsroom democracy" relied on committees of editorial employees to examine everything from working conditions to the basic personality of the paper. With nudging from Isaacs, the committees then decided that the Star should drop its emphasis on hard news in favor of a magazine-style format, with lots of light, pictorial features and long interpretive reports on issues such as the labor movement in the auto industry. To critics who wanted more traditional...