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Last week, however, a clearly outrageous gesture by a Green regional deputy from the state of Hesse had been approved in advance by local party members. At a reception for U.S. commanders in Wiesbaden, Frank Schwalba-Hoth threw a glass of his blood on the chest of Lieut. General Paul S. Williams Jr. to protest the projected deployment of U.S. intermediate-range missiles in West Germany...
Ramstein, West Germany, Aug. 31. Two bombs were detonated in front of U.S. Air Force headquarters, causing extensive damage and injuring 20 people, 18 of them American soldiers. The Red Army Faction, once known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, claimed responsibility for the strike against "imperialism." Next day at Wiesbaden, several cars at an estate for U.S. servicemen were torched...
...have happened in privacy if the press had had its way? The uncomfortable answer, which the press should be willing to face about itself, is no. Had the hostages not been Government employees, had they not been flown out by the Government, sequestered by the Government first in Wiesbaden then at West Point, with the press held at bay by military police, no feeling of ethical restraint or human sympathy would have kept the cameras from zooming in on those first awkward, tense moments of families reunited. At times journalism is a ghoulish trade. A good many voyeurs...
...attitude is: what any might do, the others had better do. Since in a free press any number can demand credentials, around 1,000 reporters and cameramen, mostly American, jostled for position at Wiesbaden. In a speech not long ago, Reuven Frank, ex-president of NBC News, asked...
...type questions-instead of the presumably sharp ones she would have asked. Over on CBS, Morton Dean was curious as to why only 41 of the 52 hostages were present. Dean demanded of the CBS man on the scene whether it was true, as Dean had been told in Wiesbaden but hadn't been able to confirm, that some of the hostages weren't speaking to others. The CBS man said he didn't know. Well, if Morton Dean had not been able to confirm it, why was he now floating such a report over...