Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...televised interviews with David Frost that he might have saved his presidency if he had just had the heart to fire earlier his two closest aides, Haldeman and Domestic Adviser John Ehrlichman. Haldeman vowed then and there to turn his pro-Nixon memoirs into a stinging expose of "the truth" about Watergate. As it spilled out last week in an avalanche of leaks, The Ends of Power, roughly written by Freelancer Joseph DiMona, proved far from the definitive answer to Watergate's many remaining mysteries...
...released from Lompoc prison as early as this summer, is currently insulated from the storm his book is stirring. It certainly is not, as he concedes, the full story of Watergate, and is far from the final one. Despite the claim that his aim was finally to "tell the truth" about the scandal, his book is too self-protective for that...
...situation, a U.S. diplomat points out that "not all the results are in yet on the Soviet gamble on the Horn." For one thing, the Ethiopian regime's loyalty to Moscow has yet to be deeply tested. Mengistu is a nationalist above all, and there may be some truth in his claim that he turned to Moscow partly because the U.S. would not sell him weapons. In any case, the Soviets can hardly escape the many reminders of how quickly allegiances can change on the Horn. The Ethiopian soldiers still wear American-supplied uniforms; their weapons, ammunition and even...
...highest form of truth in newspapers is the "blatant opinion" of the editorial page because it does not pretend to be an absolute truth, just a version of the truth, he said...
There are three levels of truth in newspapers, the lowest being advertising, DeJean said. The second level is the front page and it is not much better because it is so easy to manipulate the news, he said...