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...EASY for Americans to get last in the details of the re-called nuclear debut government statements on the issue usually feature enough factual distortions and demagoguery to leave the populace hopelessly confused. Among students have, comprehension of the arms race is often who make like tough-minded, sophisticated arms control negotiators-to-be. It is a tribute to the propaganda powers of the Reagan Administration that it has, with little or no effort, convinced some of the Beat and the Brightest to accept and regurgitate the overtopping series of lies at the core of American nuclear weapons policy...
...Unidentified Flying Idea is pleased that your reporter enjoyed our symposium on Marijuana and Health. However, in your artiste [March 21],you made several omission and factual errors...
...critics of the President's so-called "Darth Vader" speech misinterpreted its real function. They have focused solely on the text of the speech to prove that Reagan has not changed his positions on the social issues "as if a president, outside of a great national crisis or clear factual evidence, would be likely to do a public about face and antagonize a large portion of his constituency. What they have failed to note is that in reality. Reagan has done little to further these causes. Not even the symbolic value of having a president who supports prayer in public...
...report on Argentina also contains serious distortions and factual errors. It is not true, for example, that since the ascension of General Bigone to the presidency. "The press has been less inhibited in 1982 than at any time since the early 1970's." In fact, the press was far more free and represented a wider spectrum of political opinion after the national elections of 1973. The Argentine government continued to harass journalists in 1982, and during the Falkland-Malvinas crisis, three British correspondents were incarcerated on "espionage" charges...
...claim that the Phalangists bear "sole responsibility" for the Beirut massacres. Mr. Marks appears to have utterly missed the thrust of my argument when he quotes the inquiry report to support the above proposition. To reiterate the argument for his and others benefit: the factual findings of the commission of inquiry clearly substantiate that the Israelis provided extensive logistical support to the Phalangists. Reading the full record, one is left with the distinct impression that the Israeli military all but pulled the triggers, and swings the axes, which caused the deaths of over 1000 Palestinian and Lebunese civilians...