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...into West Beirut to provoke us into some land of sanction and thus to discredit our peace plan inside Israel. But of course we don't believe that." The slaughter in the Beirut camps could, however, thwart Begin's stalling strategy and force him to pay more heed to the proposals...
...candidates, of course, always try to find and define what matters, but the voters do not always pay heed: on the morning after, national trends are often difficult to discern in mid-term elections. There is a certain wisdom in House Speaker Tip O'Neill's maxim that "all politics is local." Yet across the country this fall, the campaign cacophony of pointing with pride and viewing with alarm will largely focus on where the action has been the past two years: the state of the economy and the remarkable shift in domestic policy inaugurated by Reagan...
What should our ambitious TV executives do? For starters, the channel 7 brass could heed the advice of Walter Cronkite, who in his 20 years as anchor of the CBS Evening News came to symbolize integrity in reporting as well as high ratings. In 1976, at a CBS affiliates conference, Cronkite laid out his plans for building a successful local news operation...
...STATION should heed these lessons, it's channel 7. Viewer rejection of the channel, even with the popular John Henning (who's now anchoring channel four, by the way) suggests not so much a rejection of Henning as the news operation itself. Perhaps the viewers simply didn't feel channel 7 was doing a credible job of reporting the news. Perhaps instead of bringing in high-priced anchor talent, a handful of skilled reporters could have been hired to improving much more of the news operation...
...nevertheless fought a valiant fight against huge obstacles. A practical man with formidable experience in world affairs, he was up against a President and a White House staff with no similar background. Reagan and such influential Cabinet officials as Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, moreover, were ideologues who tended to heed rather than carefully consider the likely result of their actions. Without the wholehearted backing of a strong President who had a clear vision of America's global role, Haig's attempt to forge a consistent policy was doomed...