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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...articles in the popular press--but nuclear power reactors and their support facilities--that can really give Idi Amin a Bomb, something he could probably use right about...
MONTHS AFTER the initial controversy over the use of Nestle products in dining halls, the Committee on House and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) has given a cautious endorsement to official University boycotts mandated by student referendum. A CHUL-Faculty Council committee report presented at last week's CHUL meeting argues that ideally students as individuals should boycott products, but that some products, such as sauce ingredients, are used by the University in a way that makes individual boycotts doomed to failure. If students show by ballot that they find use of some product to be morally repugnant, a boycott...
Television makes little enough use of its power to form public opinion, and not just because it is running all those sitcorns. Television in 1948 won the right to 5 editorialize on the air, but, says Paley, "finally we concluded there was no way the network could give editorial opinions on national or international subjects." Why? Because so many of its independently owned affiliates had different political opinions. Paley speaks of "heated arguments" with Ed Murrow, Eric Sevareid and Howard K. Smith about editorializing, which is why your ordinary local late-night radiogabber is a lot freer with his opinions...
Strangely, when Paley pleads his own 3 inability as a television lord to make "fuller and better use of this magic form of a communications," he does not mention Ed Murrow. They were once close, Paley's one exception to his rule about not socializing with office colleagues. Twenty years ago, in a speech that offended Paley, Murrow proposed a plan similar in some respect to the plan Paley now offers. In a cold war period when Murrow thought the country "in mortal danger," the newsman proposed that each of the 20 or 30 largest corporate advertisers give...
...statement, the Israeli military told Jordan's King Hussein it views "with gravity" the use of his country as a base for terrorist attacks on Israel...