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...others, the switch pointed to dismaying presidential fuzziness, if not outright deceit, about a vital matter of foreign policy. Scoffed one Senator: "The President can't remember which version is true and which is the cover story." The lawmaker added that Reagan's memory has noticeably deteriorated; just before his prostate surgery in January, he approved a major intelligence "finding," but two weeks later could not remember...
Caught in a crossfire of deceit, red tape, censorship and logistics, truth is usually an early casualty in any war. Guerrilla conflicts are especially difficult to cover, since there are no front lines and battles are usually fleeting. Nonetheless, the secrecy surrounding the contras is both excessive and ill conceived. After all, the Reagan Administration has made the rebel effort a centerpiece of its foreign policy. Congress, which approved $100 million in military aid last summer, is likely to debate the issue of further help later this month. Without extensive and independent reporting about whether the contras are making progress...
...newly published book may further tarnish the image of the loftily motivated scientist. Nobel Dreams: Power, Deceit and the Ultimate Experiment (Random House) provides a rare inside look at particle physics, a field increasingly dependent on huge and expensive machines -- and on scientists who are as adept at fund raising and politicking as they are at probing the subatomic world. Author Gary Taubes provides that view while chronicling the research that won Italian Physicist Carlo Rubbia a share of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the W and Z particles, which transmit the so- called weak nuclear force...
...seemed guilty, at the very least, of high incompetence. At the center of the storm was a little-known National Security Council staff member, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, whose mysterious doings, and the questions they raised, threatened to enmesh many higher officials in a growing web of intrigue and deceit. At stake was nothing less than the viability of President Reagan's final two years in office...
...Watergate scandal escalated only because of Nixon's cover-up. His demise was the result, not of an "error" by his henchmen, but of his willful deceit, his lying to the American people...