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...strike by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists aroused the ire of many colleagues. (Huntley argued that AFTRA is a union of "singers, actors, jugglers, announcers, entertainers and comedians, whose problems have no relation to ours.") The Nixon White House regarded him as a special thorn, and internal memorandums depicted him as a paradigm of the influential journalists who badgered the Administration. Further criticism followed his decision-after retiring from the program-to lend his anchor man's cachet to airline commercials. As board chairman and promoter of Big Sky, a planned $20 million Montana resort area...
...Giant Thorn. Solzhenitsyn's final and intolerable challenge came when he authorized publication in Paris of the first two parts of The Gulag Archipelago...
...exiling Solzhenitsyn, the Kremlin ridded itself of a giant thorn. And yet, as TIME Correspondent John Shaw cabled from Moscow last week, "in the last analysis, the deportation was an act of weakness and desperation?an admission that the Soviet system holds no answer in law or fact or argument to meet Solzhenitsyn's challenge. Unable to answer his charges, incompetent to silence him, afraid to imprison him and incapable of tolerating his opinions, the Soviet state had no other option but to declare him a non-person...
Mindszenty had, in fact, become something of a thorn for the Vatican. Both in Vienna and on visits abroad, he took every opportunity to assail Hungary's Communist government, obdurately remaining a stumbling block in the Vatican's policy of Ostpolitik-an attempt to improve relations with the Communist countries of Eastern Europe and normalize church activities there. Mindszenty's forced retirement was clearly seen as a way of speeding up the policy in Hungary, where the church has won concessions with painful slowness. Simultaneously with the Mindszenty announcement, the Vatican made public four new episcopal appointments...
...defeat of the financing plan for presidential elections is yet another thorn to prick the moral indignation of millions of Americans. The nation now has cause to wonder why the Senate should shy away from a bill that would eliminate illegal corporate contributions, political extortions, and the type of rank criminality that stemmed from a $60 million campaign fund in 1972. The congressional record stands at 0-1 on attempts made to ensure against future Watergates...