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...however, loudly if extravagantly proclaim their objective to be precisely the overthrow of Nicaragua's increasingly repressive government. To that end, they have launched a much ballyhooed "invasion" - actually a series of hit-and-run raids by guerrillas operating inside Nicaragua. And a stream of reports by American newsmen who have visited contra bases in Honduras has left no doubt that the Administration is assisting them by supplying training, arms, and intelligence on troop movements in Nicaragua's northern provinces gathered by spy plane...
...your article "When 'News' Is Almost a Crime," you were critical of the newsmen who filmed a man setting himself on fire. You are right. Why, then, did you print a picture of the man committing the act? You put yourself in the same boat as the erring newsmen...
Despite the ample declarations of concern, the war in Nicaragua remains for the most part invisible. Newsmen who descended upon the country last week could find little evidence of fighting. The major sign of military activity in Managua was the predawn jogging of groups of Nicaraguan army soldiers near the city's Intercontinental Hotel. In the town of San Fernando, nearly 159 miles from the capital, the only sign of combat was a cornfield still ablaze as a result of fighting the day before. Said a U.S. diplomat in Washington: "They have clearly got a fighting situation on their...
...should be with those who suffer." That was the answer Pope John Paul II gave last week when newsmen aboard his Alitalia DC-10 jet asked him to explain the purpose of his visit to Central America. The remark may have seemed self-evident, but nothing so eloquently expressed why the 62-year-old Pontiff, who had already survived one close brush with death and a second attempt on his life last spring in Portugal, should feel compelled to risk his personal safety and the authority of his office to go on a pilgrimage to the most politically explosive strip...
Indeed, only 15 hours before the commission released its findings last week, Reagan had taken the unusual step of criticizing Israel for stalling in the negotiations over a withdrawal from Lebanon. "Israel is delaying unnecessarily," the President told a group of television newsmen. "For them not to leave now puts them technically in the position of an occupying force...