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Even among a prominent handful of President Reagan's normally unswerving conservative proponents, the confusion created by the Administration's actions last week was cause for an unraveling of previous support. One of the conservative standard-bearers who lashed out at the White House was Columnist George Will. He argued that the decision to redeploy the Marines, however it was put into effect, amounted to a "use of military assets as incompetent as the Iranian rescue mission or the Bay of Pigs." Calling the shift of U.S. troops a "retreat," Will charged that...
Ronald McRae, a former investigative reporter for Columnist Jack Anderson, tells of this type of clandestine assignation and of other operations between the Pentagon and the so-called psychic community in his book Mind Wars, to be published this spring. It is one of several forthcoming works, written by both skeptics and believers, on the military's forays into parapsychology, the quasi-science that studies the interaction of mind and matter. According to McRae, who is skeptical of psychic claims, the Department of Defense has spent $6 million annually in recent years to research such phenomena as extrasensory perception...
...about sports and politics attracts. Both are sudden-death games. Congressman Jack Kemp, the former Bills quarterback who now calls signals for the advocates of the gold standard, rates this Super Bowl just below the invasion of Grenada and above another House budget fight. He would not miss it. Columnist Carl Rowan says he might kill if he were denied a ticket. He is going in Owner Jack Kent Cooke's jetted and pampered entourage. ''Everybody has a little aggression in them," insists Rowan. "We can all get emotionally involved...
Much of the criticism of press bias comes from the organized and vocal right, but Fritz Mondale has grounds for complaint too. The press rap against him is that he is not exciting enough. At the end of the year, Columnist David Broder of the Washington Post, reviewing some of his own errors and misjudgments, concluded, "But no one, I hope, will deny me my one moment of brilliance." As long ago as January 1983, "I wrote, 'Mondale has the capacity to make the Democratic marathon dull.' Boy, did he ever!" Broder is a fair-minded reporter...
...Stockbroker Billy Bob Harris, 44, who is "a regular celebrity groupie," says Writer Edwin ("Bud") Shrake, a former Dallas sports columnist. Harris is friendly with Don Meredith, former Dallas Cowboy quarterback, ABC Monday Night Football commentator and TV pitchman; former Cowboy and Denver Bronco Quarterback Craig Morton, his onetime roommate; and country-and-western Singer Kenny Rogers. The broker's parties are known for "wall-to-wall girls, champagne, hot tubs and more girls," says Shrake. They were vividly portrayed in fictionalized form in the movie North Dallas Forty. Harris, who gave stock reports on Dallas TV, announced...