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...crisp wind whipped the flags on the South Lawn of the White House, President Reagan welcomed De la Madrid with the U.S. prescription for regional peace. "Responsible governments of this hemisphere cannot afford to close their eyes to what is happening or be lulled by unrealistic optimism," Reagan said, implying that Mexico was naively ignoring the Communist threat in Central America. De la Madrid responded by warning of "the risk of a generalized war." He called on all parties to "apply the principles and rules of international law established by the countries of the American continent: self-determination, nonintervention, equality...
...recruiter, and he has done very well. In fact, the Pentagon brass have made it official that he is exemplary, perhaps the best among their 4,797 Regular Army proselytizers: a few weeks ago, in a ceremony at his Eastgate Plaza office on a sunny day as crisp as cold soda, Recruiter of the Year Pat Yasenak had a Meritorious Service Medal pinned to his chest...
...early photographs were influenced by the soft-focus pictorial tradition in which the image was retouched to make it more painterly. In 1930 he met Paul Strand, whose style was crisp, straight, unfussed. Recalled Adams: "I came home thinking, 'Now photography exists!' " Adams' new direction was fixed and his success launched by the dean of American photography, Alfred Stieglitz, who in 1936 gave him his first show in New York City...
...newspapers: by publishing the Pentagon papers and exposing the Watergate scandal, they had recaptured the role as journalism's leader, which TV had assumed during the Viet Nam War. They had shown a new zeal for investigating local corruption. And they had begun to adopt technologies to achieve crisp graphics and photos; a growing number were using color...
...investigative reports led to the cancellation of a $1 million road-and-bridge project that would have benefited only the developer of a proposed housing tract, and to the conviction of a county commissioner for accepting a bribe in the form of services from prostitutes. News-Press editors provide crisp color and clear maps and charts and give play to national and foreign stories of import, whether or not they are of obvious interest to readers...