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...turned out, Speakes simply had not been told the truth by Administration officials. Afterward he complained bitterly to senior White House aides in an interoffice memorandum. If he had known the facts, says Speakes, he could have kept the secret without telling an outright lie. "I could say, I'm sorry, I can't answer that question,' " he explains. "Or, 'I'll check on that.' " Says ABC Paris Bureau Chief Pierre Salinger, a former press secretary who was kept similarly in the dark about the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 by President Kennedy...
Artistically, First Affair isn't worth the time of day--the acting is horrid, the plot sappy, the filming glossy if not outright sleazy, Enough said. But beneath the veneer of Hollywood melodrama lies the perfect admissions office cover girl--Melissa Sue Anderson as Toby King. Putting aside for the moment the fact that King has an affair with her Expos teacher's husband, takes a bus home to Nebraska in the middle of the term, comes down with mono and skips numerous classes without having to drop out of school. King and her application to Harvard would have thrilled...
...titled On the Jews and Their Lies (1543) went so far as to advocate that their synagogues, schools and homes should be destroyed and their prayer books and Talmudic volumes taken away. Jews were to be relieved of their savings and put to work as agricultural laborers or expelled outright...
...stable, efficient, economic system, that some real attempts at liberalization have come. And cutting off economic and military aid to the regime itself would get the message across that we will have nothing to do with a racist state. And yet maintaining non-governmental ties would avoid the outright isolation that breeds paranoia among whites...
...with speculation that the Soviets might station submarines with nuclear missiles off the U.S. coasts and break off the INF talks. Still, key White House officials, perhaps wishfully, saw Andropov's speech more as an attempt to frighten European populations about the planned U.S. deployment than as an outright rejection of the Reagan proposals. Despite the Soviets' latest psychological offensive, however, the prevailing view among Western Europe's leaders was that the debate over missiles in Europe has run its course and that deployment will proceed...