Word: opinionating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Director William Casey misled McFarlane about reports that Israel had been secretly selling arms to Iran since 1981. Had he known about the sales, McFarlane says, he would have changed his opinion about the U.S. approach to Iran. The Administration proceeded with the Iran initiative despite warnings from Secretary of State George Shultz that using Israel as an intermediary "could seriously skew our own perception and analysis of the Iranian scene...
...idealize what is happening, and I know from my own experience that there remains much for which we will have to fight. But Soviet writers know how to fight for glasnost, for the right to one's own opinion. We do not take - it as a gift. Glasnost is us. We fought for it for many years past. The words of writers have been listened to in this country in the past, and they are heeded now more than ever...
...bureau. The project was put on hold temporarily (only to make budget revisions, Stoddard now says), but shooting went ahead last March. Soviet officials have since expressed interest in buying the show for telecast in their country. "It would be useful if Soviet TV viewers were shown how public opinion in the U.S.A. is formed," says Leonid Kravchenko, deputy chairman of Gosteleradio, the Soviet agency in charge of radio...
Their first confrontation was less conclusive than it appeared, though in Murray's opinion Conner went too far in his gracious references to luck. "I'm not a great believer in luck in sailing," he said. "The shifting winds favored the boat in front, but Dennis made the most of his opportunities to get there. We got to where we thought we wanted to be on the start; we thought wrong. What Dennis left us was pretty much zilch...
Taubes acknowledges Rubbia's brilliance. But he argues that the physicist's distinguished career has been marred by manipulation, bullying and corner cutting. Taubes told TIME that in his opinion Rubbia "has made more mistakes than any major physicist of his era. He has a history of distorting and exaggerating his experimental results." Says Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow, a Harvard colleague of Rubbia's: "The book is a fair picture. I would make it required reading for anyone who wants to go into this field...