Word: wars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME staff member since 1972, White has specialized in stories about the developing nations of the Third World since studying that subject as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard two years ago. After writing about the civil war in Rhodesia and the revolutions in Iran and Nicaragua, he found Mexico's relative political stability "a refreshing change." The roots of revolution, he says, have long been there- "high levels of unemployment, explosive population growth and a harshly inequitable distribution of wealth. Yet there hasn't been a revolution in Mexico since 1917. It's hard to figure...
...curious that my friend Henri Cartier-Bresson should assail my friend Ansel Adams [Sept. 3] for "doing pictures of rocks" instead of being socially committed while "the world is falling to pieces." Except for a couple of chilling end-of-the-war shots of Nazi collaborators being interrogated in his homeland, and poignant images of quilted Chinese peasants playing mah-jongg during the fall/liberation of Nationalist Peking, not a single Cartier-Bresson photograph comes to mind about any of the world's miseries covered by other, often less gifted but more involved photographers...
...producing a national labor movement with the muscle to back up its demands. Yet he remained more practical than ideological, a champion of "the American way of life"-thrift, sobriety, patriotism and perseverance. Meany remained an unrepentant hawk; he had battled Communist labor unions in Western Europe after World War II, and he supported the Viet Nam War...
...American commandos raided an installation 20 miles from Hanoi-the Son Tay prison-thought to house 60 American prisoners of war. The raid was heroically executed but was based on an egregious failure of intelligence: the prison had been closed at least three months earlier...
Brian and I met frequently afterward, always without publicity. In early 1971 Brian suggested that I meet with a group of his friends to discuss the war and the problems of our society. I invited them to the White House. The friends turned out to be a nun and two laymen who had been named as unindicted coconspirators in an alleged plot to kidnap me. When the press later learned of the meeting from my visitors, I was admonished by the Secret Service and the Attorney General...