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Nixon prefers to steer the conversation toward foreign, rather than domestic, policy, and his office reflects his passion for international affairs. His work space is decorated with photographs from his travels abroad and gifts bestowed by world leaders on him and his family after he left office. Since then, Stacks has interviewed Nixon two times, Talbott four. With each encounter, they have discovered a man in close touch with the political scene. "He sees the world as a kind of interlocking device," says Stacks. "He is fully back on his game." At 77, Nixon is also in good health...
Even among the most sophisticated players, manipulation can be a dirty word. Take the case of William DeJohn and Jay Winsten. As officials of Harvard University's Center for Health Communication, they recommended mass-media campaigns to steer youths away from drug abuse. But they ran into trouble when the New York Times described their two-year study -- which advocated staged news events and the distribution of video press releases to be aired on TV news programs -- as "the manipulation of print and broadcast news." A TV network executive contacted by the reporter denounced the scheme, and center director Winsten...
Bulger got things rolling by saying the event would steer clear of difficult issues facing the state. Commenting on Attorney General James Shannon's recent admission that he smoked marijuana while in college, Bulger said, "Today it's going to look like pot smokers on parade. But I tell you this promises to be a genuine grassroots campaign...
Soviet Muslim leaders hope to steer growing Islamic consciousness in the direction of tolerance, to allay Russian suspicions of Islam and to preserve a coherent structure of religious authority and order in the country. But they may be racing against time. Demographics are having their own influence on Soviet Islam. Though the Muslim nationalities make up just 19.2% of the Soviet population, they accounted for half the total population increase of the past decade. They are still growing at five times the rate of the remaining population...
...nine, Garber read in the evening Star about an airplane demonstration. He mooched 50 cents from his father and hopped the Washington trolley to Arlington National Cemetery. When he stepped down, he heard a strange sound, looked up and saw Orville Wright steer his Military Flyer above him with Lieut. Frank Lahm, one of the first military pilots, at his side. Garber ran up the hill to Fort Myer, where President William Howard Taft was witnessing the birth of American air power. Years later, Garber, by then a friend of the Wright brothers, acquired both their original plane...