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...first unable to swallow the revised pledge, the New York Times briefly attempted to negotiate a third version. But once the Indian government turned thumbs down, the two Timesmen. on the scene, New Delhi Correspondent William Borders and Eric Pace of the Tehran Bureau, both gave in to the Indian censors. Explained Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "In our opinion, it amounts simply to an acknowledgement of receipt of a written government document and a statement by the correspondent that he will be responsible for whatever he writes." Newsweek magazine too, had refused to accept the original pledge...
Shortly after Hersh's CIA story, White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen called Clifton Daniel, the Times Washington bureau chief, and told him that invitations were being sent for an "informal" lunch with the President. On Jan. 16, seven top Timesmen were ushered into a small dining room in the East Wing for lamb chops with Ford, Nessen, Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld, Economic Adviser Alan Greenspan and Special Consultant Robert Goldwin. The gathering was cordial, though Ford occasionally interjected "Now this is off the record" and "This is not for public." Talk eventually turned to the Rockefeller commission...
...reporting and broadened coverage of the underprivileged. A handsome bachelor-about-town since his divorce from Alice Patterson Albright, whose family of Medills and Pattersons made newspaper history with their Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and the late Washington Times-Herald, the politically liberal Hoge has seen Sun-Timesmen collect four Pulitzer Prizes, while the paper's circulation rose by more than 40,000 under his editorship...
...base renewed his pleas to North Vietnamese officials in Paris almost monthly. Another factor is the Times's undeniable prestige and influence in the U.S. Both Pyongyang and Hanoi obviously felt that they could benefit from some press exposure in the U.S. at this time, and that the Timesmen were likely to give them a favorable shake...
According to the authors of Journey to Tranquility, it was neither the desire for scientific achievement nor hope of economic gain that mainly propelled America's man-on-the-moon program. Instead, this British trio of Sunday Timesmen argues, the program evolved pragmatically from the cold war. The builders and launchers, the technicians and crews of the Apollo missions have always been "soldiers in an age when technology has become warfare by other means. Americans did not go to the moon for mankind. They went for America...