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...since the peak of the anti-Viet Nam War movement in the late 1960s have so many reporters felt the urge to stand up and be counted on a national question. And as with Viet Nam, the dilemma is more pressing for reporters who espouse the liberal side of the issue. "To me, the struggle for abortion rights is as important to women as the struggle against slavery," says a Chicago Tribune reporter. "This isn't about whether they're going to build some bridge downtown. This is about my body...
...equally troubling -- and more elusive -- issue is whether journalists can cover stories in which they begin with strong personal convictions. A. Kent MacDougall, a journalism professor at the University of California, Berkeley, marched against the Viet Nam War while working on the staff of the Wall Street Journal. Defending his activities in a 1970 Journal op-ed piece, MacDougall wrote, "A well-trained reporter with pride in his craft won't allow his beliefs to distort his stories, any more than a Republican surgeon will botch an appendectomy on a Democrat...
...They don't like his role in Central America, his proconsular, interventionist, pro-contra role as Ambassador in Honduras. They don't like his Viet Nam background and his national security, intelligence-community background. Nonetheless, it is possible that he'll become the first U.S. ambassador in many years to establish channels of communication with all sectors of the political spectrum, in which case he might even become a good ambassador...
...verbal sparring in France heated up, so did the fighting in Cambodia. Vietnamese artillery units stepped up shelling of rebel positions along the Thai border. Viet Nam's objective: to make it harder for opposition troops to attack the Phnom Penh regime after Hanoi pulls out its forces in September...
While soft-landing scenarios provide reassuring reading, some economists think such forecasts belong on the fiction shelf. If U.S. economic history is any guide, a soft landing is a long shot. That kind of gentle slowdown occurred only once before, in 1967, when the military buildup during the Viet Nam War fueled a demand for capital goods...