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...Jerusalem, the official investigation of the Beirut massacre continued, and once again the commission of inquiry heard testimony that appeared to contradict the previous statements of Begin and his Defense Minister Ariel Sharon. Lieut. Colonel Ze'ev Zeharin, an aide to Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan, testified that he was "100% sure" Sharon first spoke on Tuesday evening, Sept. 14, two days before the massacre began, about the plan for Lebanese Christian militiamen to enter the Palestinian camps. Sharon had testified that he first broached the subject on the following day. Zeharin also said Eitan had told him that...
...from those interviews he does conduct. Malin says his impressions contradict the widespread feeling that more people are squeezing, that safety cushions are smaller than they were five or 10 years back. He counters suggestions of confusion and concern with tales of the madness affecting his first summer in the director's job--the summer directly following the earliest demonstrations of the turbulent late...
White House officials faced the absolute nadir of the confrontation on October 27, "Black Saturday," as Kennedy's assistant appointments secretary, David Powers, still calls it. The White House had received a combative letter from Khrushchev which seemed to contradict an earlier message indicating a willingness to compromise. That night, the President and Powers, long-time personal friends, shared a late dinner of chicken, in the Oval Office while Kennedy silently weighed his options...
Smilar pattern prevailed on question probing attitudes about the social the atmosphere here Eighty-five percent of the over all sample responded positively when asked, "Are you satisfied with Harvard extra curricula's?" Seventy one percent affirmed that social life at Harvard was satisfactory. These reaction contradict rather negative assessments of these aspects of Harvard was satisfactory. These reactions contradict rather negative assessments of these aspects of Harvard recently published in a New York Times guide to American colleges...
Turner appeared to contradict that hands-off policy in late May when he recorded his first CNN editorial, opposing violence in movies, and had it shown eleven times (plus ten airings on the Superstation). He attacked The Deer Hunter, a Viet Nam War drama, The Warriors, a fictional portrayal of New York City youth gangs, and especially Taxi Driver, the film that allegedly inspired John Hinckley's attempted assassination of President Reagan. Said Turner: "The people responsible for this movie should be just as much on trial as John Hinckley himself ... Write your Congressman and your Senator right away...