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...when the Nation obtained a copy of Ford's manuscript from an undisclosed source and quickly put together a summary of 2,250 words, 300 of which were direct quotations. The chosen quotes featured the ex- President's defense of his pardon of Richard Nixon, and Nation Editor Victor Navasky argued that Ford's own words on the pardon and other subjects were "hot news." The book's publishers, Harper & Row and Reader's Digest, sued, charging that Navasky had violated the copyright laws and stolen former President Ford's right to determine the time and place for first publication...
...comment on his expansive style that he was nicknamed "Supremo" by staffers during World War II, when he served as Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia. To the royal family he was "Dickie" (though Richard was not one of his string of given names, which were Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas). He was the last Viceroy of India, who in 1947 presided over the fade-out of the British raj. He went out of this world at 79 (blown up in 1979 by I.R.A. terrorists while boating in Donegal Bay) as Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma...
...discussions: strategic arms reduction talks (START), which involve intercontinental ballistic missiles; intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF), which focus on European-based nuclear weaponry; and space weapons, dominated by Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also called Star Wars. To the discouragement of U.S. negotiators, Chief Soviet Negotiator Victor Karpov opened with demands that were unchanged from the last set of talks, which ended in late 1983 with Soviet walkouts. These included a proposal for long- range missiles that Washington contends is unresponsive to a U.S. offer to trade off Soviet and American strategic advantages evenly. The U.S. also objects...
...situated in the middle class neighborhood of Saavedra, nine miles from downtown Buenos Aires. Most of the patients were in bed when the blaze broke out, and some apparently were locked inside their rooms. Four young onlookers were credited with rescuing about twelve of the inmates. Criminal Court Judge Victor Pettigiani said that at least two people have been arrested in connection with the disaster...
Ever since [the first collection] was published of course the wily and parsimonious Victor S. Navasky has complained to me that it portrays him as the sort of person who pays columnists only sixty-five dollars a shot when in fact he is going a full one hundred or what I prefer to think of as a century Ironically it was Navasky who insisted that I promise never to reveal that he finally agreed to come across with a C-note for each column it might give the other fellows ideas he said I promised...