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Democratic Candidate Johnie A. Rodebush stressed religious faith and told voters he feels a lump in his throat every time he hears the national anthem. It was not enough. Nonetheless, Rodebush looked like a liberal in Michigan's mostly rural Fourth Congressional District, which had three times elected David Stockman, now the President's program-slashing budget director. In fact, Stockman's own choice, John L. Globensky, his former campaign manager and a similarly obdurate conservative, was rejected by voters in the March 24 primary. The man who beat him, and who last week swamped Rodebush...
...Post usually insists that reporters tell editors the names of sources, but exceptions are made, most notably with Deep Throat, Woodward's key informant on Watergate. In this case, the editors made an exception because Cooke said Jimmy's drug supplier had threatened to kill her if she revealed her sources, even to them. Says Woodward: "You have to build a chain of trust with your reporters. If you attempt to re-report stories, you erect a barrier. I was sympathetic...
Richard Nixon lives quietly on Manhattan's East Side nowadays, H.R. Haldeman works for a low-profile Los Angeles real estate firm, and Deep Throat has long since fallen silent. But as the events of last week emphasized, the ghosts of Watergate still rise into the nation's headlines from time to time. In three widely varied legal actions, prominent figures from that inglorious era were exonerated, embroiled in a new scandal or re-attacked for an old one. Without even petitioning for it, two top former FBI officials won a full and unconditional pardon from President Reagan...
...opening of the film. Kazem Ala told of the tortures he had both witnessed and experienced. At one point, though visibly shaken and upset, he continued o recount horrors he had seen (among them a story about a mother forced to watch while her infant son had his throat cut), explaining that "I have a duty to say this." And in Kazem Ala's confession about his own duty, the directors recognized and fulfilled their own duty as documentarists: to provide not just a dramatic and realistic message for the community, but to help see, as the founder...
When he was producing stories for men's magazines like Male and Stag, Martin Cruz Smith once watched a colleague waltzing down the hall waving a check for six figures and wearing "a grin that met in the back of his throat." Recalls the author: " 'One day,' I thought, 'I'll be doing the same dance as Mario Puzo...