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Coffey denies that his relationships color how Calendar is edited; instead, he points to the hard-nosed pieces he has published detailing the behind-the- scenes negotiations that went into the Matsushita buyout of MCA and Sony's * purchase of Columbia Pictures. Coffey boosters contend that Calendar's emphasis on profiles and reviews simply makes the section more competitive with the highbrow arts and culture section of the New York Times, which began circulating its national edition in Los Angeles...
White House officials rejected the charges. "The only pressure for the U.S. to intervene is coming from columnists and commentators," said a senior presidential aide. He and other Bush advisers contend that the American public overwhelmingly wants U.S. troops to be brought home as rapidly as possible. Another White House official adds that "our coalition partners," both European and Arab, "don't want us getting involved in Iraq's internal affairs" either. If the U.S. were to choose sides, it would be exceeding the U.N. mandates under which it fought the war, and with little support abroad or at home...
...what? A number of experts contend that the U.S. knows next to nothing about those who are fighting, what they want and whether they might be able to run part or all of the country. "There are no real groups competing for power," says a U.S. analyst. "The Baathists have destroyed them all." . Bush's advisers fear that if some loose combination of rebels won, they would not be able to exercise effective control over the institutions dominated by Saddam's fellow Sunni Muslims -- the army, the security police and the Baath party -- that have kept Iraq together. The country...
Some Israeli military planners contend that the Golan and West Bank have become more, not less, essential to security. Without early-warning devices there, they assert, warheads could hit Israel before the civilian population could be warned to head for shelter. Even so, some military men speculate that if Israel kept its early-warning devices and troops in numbers sufficient to thwart a surprise Syrian attack, it could withdraw partially, keeping only a slice of territory running 15.5 miles east from the pre-1967 border...
This new thinking is not found everywhere, to be sure, but in many places professors contend it is becoming dominant. While American universities and colleges have always been centers for the critical examination of Western assumptions and beliefs, the examination has taken a harsh and strident turn. At times it amounts to a mirror-image reversal of basic assumptions held by the nation's majority...