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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lillian Carter...
...Traveler in the Dark" is "about a brilliant surgeon, whose intelligence is not enough to save him Samuel Carter seems to have it all a beautiful wife, a bright little boy, and a dazzling career but he is a traveler in the dark," Norman said in a statement recently...
...government--the only international voice to speak out in favor of the referendum--will also toe the new South African line. With the advent of the Reagan Administration a pattern of "constructive engagement" with South Africa reversed the legislation of the Carter era. Although the House voted last week to put severe restrictions on future American loans and investments to South Africa, most Americans still cling to the overly pessimistic view of peaceful change in the country...
...former press secretary who was kept similarly in the dark about the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 by President Kennedy: "You can always make a deal with the press when it knows it is dealing with a national security situation." Argues syndicated Columnist Jody Powell, who was President Carter's press secretary: "The Government has not only the right but sometimes the obligation to lie. If I had been asked hours before an invasion if an invasion was about to take place, I would have denied it and tried to make it a convincing...
...Administrations attempt to do this, up to a point. Actually the Reagan White House has been far more intelligent and helpful in its dealings with the press than was customary during the Nixon age of paranoia and the Carter era of petty meanness. Thus the attempt to fight a little war in secret, out of range of reporters and cameramen, is all the more startling and unfortunate...