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...colliding efforts to investigate the mess at EPA produced an elephants' ballet. The confusion hit a pinnacle at midweek, when President Reagan spoke so nebulously at his press conference that the New York Times and other news organizations prematurely reported that he had decided to give Congress the disputed documents. They culled that impression from the President's statement that he would "never invoke Executive privilege to cover up wrongdoing." White House Spokesman Larry Speakes spent most of Thursday explaining that the President had really meant to reassert his claim of Executive privilege. Indeed, at the White House...
...Iranian offensive, the fourth launched by Tehran since last July, was apparently aimed at the Iraqi city of Al Amarah. Seizure of the town would enable Iran to intercept supply and troop movements between Baghdad, the capital, and the southern port city of Basra. By midweek, Tehran Radio was claiming that advancing forces had "liberated" 120 sq. mi. of Iranian territory from Iraqi forces since the attack began. An Iraqi military spokesman was contending that the attackers did not gain "one inch of Iraqi territory...
...storm started in the Gulf of Alaska and lumbered southward toward California, gaining force and intensity. By the time it punched into the coast of the nation's most populous state at midweek, it carried driving rains, 15-ft. waves and 50-m.p.h. winds. The raging surf and rain washed away beaches and chunks of highways, sent mud cascading down hillsides and shattered piers and houses. During one eleven-hour stretch, Los Angeles got two inches of rain. "We usually don't get two inches of rain in a month," said National Weather Service Specialist Frankie Shaw...
Nonetheless, the Reagan Administration by midweek concluded that the melodious mood music might just prove soothing enough to produce an unwarranted euphoria in the nation and world. Accordingly, Washington moved to damp it down. At a Thursday news conference held for that purpose, Secretary of State Shultz asserted that "signals are fine" and the U.S. appreciated the "great courtesy" that Andropov had shown toward himself and Bush, but "the thing we are really looking for . . . is the substance of change in behavior." As Shultz noted, no sooner had Brezhnev been laid to rest than "it was as though someone threw...
...Lebanese Forces were unchallenged as the dominant military group in East Beirut, while the fledgling Lebanese army had taken over the security of Muslim West Beirut. But Gemayel was anxious to exert the authority of the central government over East as well as West Beirut. And so, at midweek, he sent the Lebanese army into the eastern sector of the city along with elements of the multinational force...