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...spent $8 million to undermine Chilean President Salvador Allende's Marxist government. Last week threatened to bring even worse opprobrium. On Capitol Hill, the heads of four different committees and subcommittees announced parallel investigations of the CIA to begin when Congress reconvenes. From his vacation retreat in Vail, Colo., Gerald Ford ordered up a report by CIA Director William E. Colby that was flown to him by courier plane. The cause of the furor was a story in the New York Times charging that for about 20 years the CIA had illegally spied on many American citizens within...
...after day last week, the President was out on the slopes high above the winter resort of Vail, Colo. For the most strenuously physical man to occupy the White House since Teddy Roosevelt, the exercise was pure tonic. The setting, however, was slightly incongruous. Vail is an elegant winter resort, the place where John Lindsay, Jackie Onassis, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford and numerous Kennedys come to play. Carved out of a wilderness twelve years ago, Vail is a high-priced retreat where the après-ski attractions include continental restaurants, 28 heated pools and smart boutiques for snow bunnies...
...have unquestionably increased recently, some editors wonder whether the quality of public debate has improved much. A few are downright begrudging. "You give space to some of these jerks just because it establishes your credibility," says John G. Craig Jr., executive editor of the Wilmington papers. Cleveland's Vail is somewhat milder: "It's not right to allow everyone to say anything he wants. It becomes an imposition on our readers...
...President will have to find another form of exercise. Says Ford: "The Oval Office seems very confining. I'd have to go to Burning Tree for golf, or to Camp David. I won't have a Key Biscayne or a San Clemente, but we will go to Vail [Colorado] to ski over the holidays...
...battalions of reporters and photographers is effectively walled off from normal human experience. "Sure," Broder concedes, "some reporters must be present in case of a sudden development or untoward incident. But it doesn't require 60 of the best journalists in America to stand on the slopes at Vail when Mr. Ford goes skiing, in order to keep the American people informed about the work of the President...