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...aggressively erudite Boston, a television reporter Last week asked all the candidates for a U.S. Senate seat a series of factual questions, most of them on defense and foreign affairs. None of the ten knew all the answers. One candidate for the Democratic nomination got every question wrong. The quiz might have been suitable for a Secretary of State, contended Holyoke Community College President Da vid Bartley, but not for a Senate candidate...
Amnesty International (AI)'s newly released book, Torture in the Eighties, does not demean the constant American struggle over civil rights interpretation. But it does provide a healthy measure of perspective for American citizens--as a chilling, factual account of brutal practices little known in the industrial West. And while the action of such groups as Al, the United Nations, and other international organizations brings many cases of torture to light, the book still leaves one with "an underlying sense of pessimism about the prevention of such acts as the South Korean incident excerpted above...
...When asked, Reagan said he had never left the country and was talking about a Holocaust film he had seen at the time. Being caught in misstatements, which can be so devastating to other Presidents, seems not to hurt Reagan at all, as if the public had accepted his factual carelessness long...
...anchorman, which enables him to go over the heads of Washington journalists. Print pundits seem to matter to the White House principally because they influence broadcasters. But Reagan dislikes press conferences and has held only one this year. He can be bothered in two ways. Unglamorous print journalists ask factual questions that can expose his ignorance. As for TV types, their questions aim for a flustered on-camera response from Reagan. Andrea Mitchell, NBC: "Can you say to those parents, now that you've withdrawn the Marines to the ships, why more than 260 young men died there?" Bill...
...claimed to have "conclusive documentation of the factual assertions made in the broadcast," which it too introduced in court. Subordinate officials of the CIA and the Pentagon asserted that they had indeed lowered pre-Tet estimates of enemy strength, under explicit or implied orders from Westmoreland's command team. Retired Army Major General Joseph McChristian suggested that Westmoreland may have sidetracked a cable about troop strength after saying it could be a "political bombshell." Said McChristian: "Although I usually sent my reports directly to Washington, General Westmoreland told me to leave it with him. I do not know what...