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...time (there were 14,000 at the four-day Democratic Convention last month) in the history of reporting. By far the most influential are the 3,500 members of ABC's army, who produce two separate reports: the broadcast seen by Americans and tailored to them, and a neutral pictorial record of every event, about 1,300 hours in all, to be excerpted for broadcasts in the rest of the world...
...that are of particular interest to Americans. In all, 140 countries, territories and protectorates will be rooting for their favorite athletes, and ABC cameras must record every sweaty moment: a total of 1,300 hours. For the events being broadcast to Americans, the network must have parallel coverage, one neutral view for the world feed and one with red-white-and-blue lenses that will concentrate on such home-grown stars as Carl Lewis, Mary Decker and Greg Louganis...
Costa Rica too has resisted U.S. attempts to turn it into a stronger military buffer against Nicaragua. Last week, in a show of independence from Washington, President Luis Alberto Monge announced that he had obtained $154 million in loans from Western European nations. The neutral Costa Rican government also ousted a contra spokesman by canceling his tourist visa...
...schools and hospitals instead of arsenals. The country now boasts the highest per capita income in Central America ($1,520) as well as the lowest illiteracy rate (under 10%). "The last thing this country needs is an army," maintains José ("Don Pepe") Figueres Ferrer, the first President of neutral Costa Rica...
Finally, perhaps the deepest cause of moral confusion is the state of language itself, language that has been bleached of its moral distinctions, turned neutral, value-free, "nonjudgmental." When that happens, moral discourse becomes difficult, moral distinctions impossible and moral debate incomprehensible. If abortion is simply "termination of pregnancy," the moral equivalent of, say, removing a tumor, how to account for a movement of serious people dedicated to its abolition? If homosexuality is merely a "sexual preference"-if a lover's sex is as much a matter of taste as, say, hair color (or having it butter-side...