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Among the first foreign newsmen to enter the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila after September's massacre was TIME Correspondent Roberto Suro. Last week, after the Israeli commission published its findings, Suro paid a return visit. His report...
...taxes. He denied stoutly that he was doing any such thing and, in fact, seemed to be largely unaware of the economic and political stakes. Nettled by charges in the press that his Administration was "in disarray" and losing its direction, Reagan charged at his Friday meeting with newsmen that the disarray was in the minds of reporters who were printing tentative budget proposals as hard-and-fast decisions. He added, "I do not believe that, philosophically, I have changed...
Such invective now confronts the Reagan Administration, which came to power brandishing exceptionally strong economic convictions. The Reagan program consisted of four parts, which newsmen quickly dubbed Reaganomics. These consisted of supply-side tax cuts, reductions in federal spending, moves toward deregulation, and a monetarist tight-money policy to curb inflation. Reaganomics did cut inflation sharply, lowering the annual rate of increase in the Consumer Price Index from 12.4% in 1980 to a current level of less than...
Like other Western newsmen, French broadcasters have given prominent coverage to the Italian government's charges. In response, an aide to Soviet Ambassador to France Stepan Chervonenko sent a letter to all major French news organizations demanding "fair" treatment of the U.S.S.R. and accusing the French of making "our country the object of the most shameless defamation." The French press wasted no time in responding. Replied the conservative Paris daily Le Quotidien: "One can easily imagine the scandal that would ensue if a U.S. ambassador in France dared to send an insulting letter to all the newspapers, radio...
...attempt by the press to cover up the intimidation of several influential reporters is more shocking than the intimidation itself. Lebanon, after all, has not exactly been hospitable to journalists; in the past decade alone, more than a dozen newsmen have been assassinated there while doing their jobs. In the face of incessant threats, some members of the media in the Middle East have chosen to flee. Others carried on, reporting to the world the dangers they were facing. But in the case of the five American correspondents, it was business as usual. The story was almost never told...