Word: factualism
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...midst of this whole struggle against ROTC, Harvard expansion, the war," he says, "the CRR was trying to decide which individuals merited a suspension, which a 'suspended suspension.' We saw these hearings as an attempt to get bogged down on the particulars of whether an account was factual or not," he explains. "The CRR was not only seen then as repressive, but as an attempt to change the focus...
...very frank, factual discussion of the basic differences we have. We laid them right on the table without equivocation." Thus did Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois describe his extraordinary meeting last week with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow. The conference lasted two hours and 40 minutes, more than an hour longer than scheduled. It marked the first time since July 1979, when Brezhnev met with Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, that the Soviet leader has talked in person and at length with a high-level U.S. official. From all appearances, it was a major effort...
...editor once omitted one of my foot notes," he recalls. "It explained that a certain type of gun - a scraper - was only made in a test model. I got thousands of letters from frontier buffs and gun people." L'Amour's factual asides have been treated with greater respect ever since...
...warmongering required a strong personal response, unlike Carter's charges of racism against the Republican, which the Governor's aides correctly assumed would backfire. Said Senior Adviser James Baker:, "They'll keep trying to hype this war issue unless someone calls them on it for factual accuracy and demagoguery." Reagan's aides also hope that the shrillness of Carter's statements will detract from one of his strongest attributes-his image of decency and fairness...
...half-crazed Soviet spy master who spells out his Plan is pure fiction, the creation of Journalists Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss in their new novel The Spike. The plan itself, according to U.S. intelligence experts, is all too factual. "Disinformation" refers mostly to covert falsification tactics used by the Soviet Union to further its propaganda aims. Examples of disinformation-a forged U.S. Army field manual, bogus vice-presidential statements critical of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat-occasionally surface in the Western press...