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...networks and to the BBC. G.O.P. messengers were immediately ordered to retrieve the scripts. The BBC people refused to yield theirs. "Extraordinary," commented Charles Wheeler, BBC'S chief American correspondent, as he examined the document. "How do you Americans say it? Really a screw-up." Republican Committee Staffer Kit Wisdom tried to grab the pages from Wheeler, then from Christopher Drake, a radio correspondent. "Naughty, naughty," Drake admonished her, clutching the document to his narrow chest. "Naughty, naughty, naughty." Half an hour later, Wheeler beamed his message to Europe: "Here is the script for today, complete with pauses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stop the War | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

...President in his own campaign is a curious one. It is almost as if he were not needed -or wanted. The less campaigning he does, think some Republicans, the better. "We blew it in 1960 and 1970, and we almost blew it in 1968," says a White House staffer. "If we can keep Nixon on the job and off the road, we'll be better off. But I'm not sure we can do it. Nixon loves to campaign, though he's a lousy campaigner." For the moment, however, the President plans to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN : The Coronation of King Richard | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

...intelligence squad grew out of a team of so-called "plumbers," originally recruited by the Administration to investigate leaks to the media. They included G. Gordon Liddy, a former White House staffer and then attorney for the C.R.P.'s finance committee; Robert Mardian, a former assistant U.S. Attorney General and an official for the C.R.P., and E. Howard Hunt, a former White House consultant. The lead man in the Watergate caper was Bernard Barker, an ex-CIA agent. Federal investigators learned that $114,000 from the C.R.P. had found its way into Barker's Miami bank account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Watergate Issue | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

...response to such charges, a State Department spokesman last week accused the North Vietnamese of a "monstrous lie campaign," and a White House staffer described the Swedish journalists involved in the controversy as "the conscious tools of Hanoi." The dikes are not being "targeted," Administration officials repeated, though they admitted as before that a few bombs have dropped on dikes near military targets. Some reconnaissance photographs, for instance, showed roads atop dikes that were filled with supply convoys; others showed a stretch of dike with three 37-mm. antiaircraft gun emplacements on it. The State Department at first denied Swedish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH VIET NAM: Thin Line of Distinction | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...Real Paper's fight for ads is hampered by "BAD intimidation" according to Chuck Fager. Dick Reitman, another staffer, said at last night's meeting that BAD had been calling Phoenix advertisers since last Wednesday, telling them that "they had no alternative but to sign with...

Author: By Barbara A. Slavin, | Title: Phoenix Rises from Ashes; Staff Issues the Real Paper | 8/1/1972 | See Source »

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