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Lest the consumer and our dealers be led astray, may I correct the statement in your story "Max Troubles for Betamax" [Jan. 16] that indicates Toshiba has abandoned Beta? On the contrary, Beta is still being sold by Toshiba in both the U.S. and Japan. With the advent of Beta hi-fi and Beta movies, Toshiba's business in this videotape system is booming...
Israel's role in funneling U.S. arms to embargoed states did not begin with South Africa. In 1979, Israel declared 11 of its American-made Huey helicopters to be obsolete, then claimed they "went astray" while en route to Singapore. The helicopters eventually turned up in the hands of the Rhodesian army, which was trying unsuccessfully to maintain white control over what is now the African country of Zimbabwe...
...thought soft. Everyone carried the Munich model around in his head. One talked in laconic codes, a masculine shorthand; one did not, like Adlai Stevenson, deliver fluty soliloquies about the morality of an act. After the Bay of Pigs, Bowles wrote: "The Cuban fiasco demonstrates how far astray a man as brilliant and well-intentioned as President Kennedy can go who lacks a basic moral reference point...
...Reagan response to the airline tragedy first went astray two weeks later on September 16 when the State Department told the Soviet Embassy that Foreign Minister Gromyko could not arrive in the United States on an Aeroflot plane and would have to land at a military airport. Gromyko promptly cancelled his annual address to the General Assembly's opening session and attacked the United States for violating its treaty obligations with the United Nations in an attempt to humiliate unjustly the Soviet Union. Score I for the Soviet propaganda machine, 0 for the Reagan effort...
...soup pot with a wooden spoon. The members of his audience, who ranged from stock-market dabblers to professionals from Merrill Lynch and Dean Witter, wore buttons proclaiming slogans like THINK FOR YOURSELF. Said Fraser: "Contrary opinion teaches us to be thoughtful nonconformists, keeping us from being led astray by popular opinion...