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...based magazine had reprinted in 1981, a few months before it folded, a speech by its owner, Sir James Goldsmith, in which he accused the left-leaning Spiegel of having been manipulated by the KGB while researching a series of 1962 articles that challenged the integrity of Franz Josef Strauss, then West Germany's Defense Minister. In last week's exchange of statements in court, reprinted in full-page advertisements in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Goldsmith emphasized that he had not meant to imply that Spiegel had knowingly cooperated with the KGB. Spiegel...
...years urging Western journalists to study disinformation techniques. To prepare a defense for the Spiegel trial, he solicited testimony from students of Soviet actions in West Germany, Britain and the U.S., including a Czech defector, General Jan Sejna, whose public remarks were the basis for the assertions about Strauss and Spiegel. Among other potential witnesses: a Soviet bloc defector who was involved in efforts to defame Strauss, and George town University Professor Roy Godson, author of a recent book on Soviet disinformation. Goldsmith said last week that he will publish a book, to be written by British journalists, based...
Nonetheless, he also focuses on the next two weeks as the period during which Mondale must win back enough disaffected Democrats to produce some perceptible improvement in his national-poll standings. Says Strauss: "They have to come back through the door...
...concede that time is running short to start a Silky Sullivan finish. "We think we're seeing movement that won't show up for a while in the national polls," says one. "But you need ice water in your veins for the next couple of weeks." Robert Strauss, the Democrats' Mr. Fixit, who heads a council of party elders advising Mondale, insists, "It's the seventh-inning stretch, not the top of the ninth...
Each of the central characters in the play is the product of a blighted past. Take, for example, Niles Harris (Guy Strauss), the renouned art history professor who ends his heralded teaching career by announcing to his class that he knows nothing about art. Or Father William Doherty (Leonard Corman), the kind, elderly parishoner who is torn between molding his foster son (Mark Rogers) into a badly-needed Indian physician and allowing him to pursue a lucrative and prestigious position in cancer research. Or Marion Clay (Maryann Bergonzi), the widow of a wealthy artist who divides her time between lamenting...