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When the USIA's director Charles Wick, a buddy of Reagan's, got to Geneva, the Los Angeles Times's talented Washington bureau chief Jack Nelson asked him why U.S. Government spokesmen were just arriving when the Soviets had been putting out propaganda for days. Answered Wick: "You were here, Jack, that's all we need." Indeed, Nelson and his thousands of other colleagues in the free press were dispelling hogwash on all sides the moment they arrived in the old city...
...press restrictions have, however, created another side effect. With reporters mostly barred from entering the townships to cover the unrest, many have poured their energies into chasing down rumors. Word had it last week that Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed African National Congress who has been serving a life sentence since 1964, might soon be released and deported to Lusaka, Zambia, where the A.N.C. has its headquarters. The reports were fueled largely by the fact that the 67-year-old Mandela, who underwent prostate surgery four weeks ago, had not yet been returned from a hospital...
...this is hard work, I feel guilty," joked Congressman Bill Nelson, 43, who is training at Houston before blasting off on the space shuttle in three weeks. "In addition to learning how to use the toilet, I have another purpose. I want to understand how NASA works and how it's been successful," said the Florida Democrat, who by no coincidence is chairman of the Space Science and Applications subcommittee. His special assignment during the five-day flight will be to grow crystals in space for cancer research. But first he will have to learn to be a bit more...
WORD OF HONOR by Nelson DeMille Warner; 518 pages...
...evidence, Tyson is hauled before a court-martial on charges of mass murder. Is he guilty? Will a military tribunal be more vindictive than civilian justice? Can any circumstances mitigate an atrocity? Does a 17-year-old incident still have the power to shock? Indeed it does, and Nelson DeMille, who served as a lieutenant in Viet Nam, knows exactly how to employ his surge within us"), but the military scenes have the gunmetal ring of authenticity. This is The Caine Mutiny of the '80s, a long, over-the-shoulder look at a time that grows larger as it recedes...