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CBS still taking heat on Bush service story

DEFENSIVE CROUCH As `experts' bicker about whether key documents could have been produced by a 1970s typewriter, the network continues to stand by its report

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK

The producer asked him to come in and look at the memorandums and say whether he thought that an IBM typewriter could have produced the documents. He said he was initially leery of talking.

"Because quite honestly there's some people out there, they're scary," he said. "You don't agree with them, you offer opinions that don't jibe with theirs and you get a target on your back."

Glennon was in charge of service for 1,000 contracts for IBM typewriters for 15 years, starting in late 1972, around the time the memorandums were produced.

He spent 15 minutes with the CBS documents, he said, and believes that they could have been created using the kind of typewriters he worked with at IBM.

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