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...recent U.S. successes. It is a welcome but hardly transforming step on the road toward peace in the Middle East, and the American role in bringing it about was only important, not decisive. But the occupation of Haiti -- cross fingers, knock on wood -- so far has been a nearly bloodless triumph. The swift deployment of U.S. troops and planes that scared Saddam Hussein into withdrawing the Iraqi forces he had massed along the border with Kuwait seems a "no-brainer" to many foreign- policy experts. Clinton had only to order execution of a plan that sat in Pentagon computers...
...Clinton's defense, Administration officials offered two basic arguments: the great virtue of a bloodless landing in Haiti outweighs the other details of the agreement, and now that U.S. troops are ashore in overwhelming force, they can make the unpalatable details irrelevant. In the view of U.S. officials, after the junta members leave office they will decide to go abroad, no matter what they say now. When Aristide is running the country and foreign troops are everywhere, in this view, the generals will find it unhealthy to remain. Says an American official in Port-au-Prince: "Somebody's going...
...have to feel sorry for the big U.S. television networks. Just as they were gearing up for the big invasion of Haiti, the dynamic trio of Carter, Nunn, and Powell had to fly in and make boring news. Everyone knows that bland, bloodless sound bites don't sell. Just who do these eleventh-hour dei ex machina think they...
According to the leading networks, the language of war is bloodless. "This is the next generation of coverage," Robert Murphy, senior vice president at ABC, told the Times...
...least partly a marketing ploy -- and a crafty one. The people who are presumably most attracted to G-rated newscasts are the parents of small children. They are primarily young adults in their 20s and 30s -- just the age group most prized by advertisers. But news directors defend their bloodless broadcasts on journalistic grounds as well. WCCO has replaced shots of dead bodies with reports that try to "put crime in context," says news director John Lansing. "The 'flashbulb effect' causes people to become disengaged and fearful of their community, of whole neighborhoods and groups of people because...