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Some European officials are openly concerned about the quality of advice that Reagan receives from the men around him. They fear that the President's most hawkish advisers, notably Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and White House Counsellor Edwin Meese, may look upon the Polish crisis as a chance to loosen the Soviet grasp on Eastern Europe. Such a policy, in turn, might force Moscow to crack down even harder. Others claim to hear too many voices coming from the Administration. Says a peeved British diplomat: "No sooner does one U.S. official announce an attitude than within 24 hours another...
...preparation for his June-July vacation period, President Reagan announces he will take the month of May off "to practice." Citing "security reasons," Reagan advisers say the chief executive will spend the vacation in Tripoli. "All their gunmen are fomenting troubles overseas," Edwin Meese says...
...recommendation of a special Pentagon manpower commission and revised statistics showing that registration would save six weeks during mobilization. White House officials vigorously denied that the reversal had anything to do with events in Poland, even though some government officials said that Poland was an important consideration. Presidential counselor Edwin Meese III, who made the draft registration announcement for Reagan, said the extension will not result in an immediate prosecution of non-registrants and does not indicate an imminent peacetime draft, which, Meese said, Reagan continues to oppose. A Crimson poll of 172 Harvard students conducted last weekend showed that...
...even their names. He lied with such boldness that he distracted a nation and shot it full of distrust. Few regret it more than journalists. By offering the print of page-one articles and the air-time of lead stories, American news media fed McCarthy the publicity he needed. Edwin R. Bayley focuses on that process in his new book, McCarthy and the Press. In a world seemingly vulnerable to media-made images, he offers the comforting notion that today's news reporters are better prepared to combat demagogy...
...DIED. Edwin H. Knopf, 82, actor, screenwriter, director and producer of more than 20 films; in Brentwood, Calif. Knopf's best known movie, the musical Lili (1953), was nominated for six Academy Awards. Edwin's brother Alfred, 89, founded the Knopf publishing firm...