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...other Lebanon developments, six people were reported killed in a new outburst of fighting between Shiite Moslem militiamen and Palestinian guerrillas yesterday around a Beirut refugee camp...
More remarkable than the outburst was the fact that after a few days of bewilderment, politicians and the press simply dropped the matter. To this day, the French parliament and public remain blithely in the dark about it. Imagine William Casey going on television to proclaim that the CIA was being dangerously subverted in the Iran arms deal -- and having the U.S. press and public let it go at that...
...chief political correspondent, who severely chided Kinsley but not Bradlee. Broder linked Kinsley with Patrick J. Buchanan, the irascible White House director of communications, as two juveniles playing mock war games, while the "grownups recognize this disaster for what it is, a calamity for the nation." So stuffy an outburst is rare for Broder, but it illustrates an attitude common this time in press coverage. Print all the facts you can find (often in numbing detail), but mute the rhetoric. It is as if journalists, as well as opposition politicians, want to avoid appearing guilty of "breaking another President," knowing...
What is confusing about his latest outburst is that The Crimson articles indicate, if anything, that the level of drug use at Harvard falls below that at other campuses. Confusing, but not surprising. Spokesmen for the Reagan Administration would have us believe that drugs are the cause of all that is wrong in America and are quick to raise it as a red herring to draw attention away from other problems...
...several vacancies that may not be easy to fill. "The machinery to resolve those disputes has been wiped out," contends Ronald Goldstock, head of the New York State organized-crime task force. But if Mob rivalries are allowed to fester, he notes, the result could be a new outburst of gangland violence...