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...something of a shock last week when Anderson took a deep dive into rumination and surfaced aglistening with optimism. Taking a long view of his trade, Anderson raised a rhetorical question about the muckraker's role in a time of widespread corruption and scandal. Might not he further weaken the national spirit by encouraging cynicism and despair...
...this point that the movie begins to weaken. As Ivan rises to brief status as renegade folk-hero, the film loses its credibility. Ivan is more a rip off artist than a Robin Hood, an improbable hero...
...Brezhnev's promotion of Andropov, 59, some Western diplomats saw it as a signal to political ideologues that detente will not be permitted to weaken party strength or orthodoxy. Then again, Brezhnev may simply have felt that it was better, in a major shakeup, to have the top cop inside the tent instead of outside it. The elevation of Romanov, 50, was interpreted as a reward for a dutiful party boss, who becomes a "candidate" member of the Politburo with no voting rights...
...Vice President decried what he termed irresponsible reporting of the Watergate affair by the news media. He said that the publication of "hearsay" has served to damage the reputations of those unjustly accused and to weaken the government's ability to prosecute and convict the guilty...
What if the situation continues to deteriorate, however, and there is nothing Nixon can do to weaken the revolutionary Khmer forces? One cannot rule out the possibility of the rebombardment of North Vietnam. One can see this in the fact that although Western sources and American officials in Cambodia have consistently admitted that the Cambodian forces are dling all their fighting and that at most there are several thousand Vietnamese providing nothing more than advice and heavy weapons support (Christian Science Monitor, April 9, 1973; New York Times, March 28 and April 11, 1973; and so on), the Nixon administration...