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When CBS Attorney David Boies presented the network's case, the initiative shifted dramatically. A succession of current and former Central Intelligence Agency officers stated that estimates of enemy troops had been tainted by politics. Producer Crile offered an impressive point-by-point explication of the evidence for each assertion in the program. In the most dramatic moment, Westmoreland's former intelligence chief and close friend, retired Major General Joseph McChristian, testified that his boss had "improperly" held back a cable about high troop estimates because it would cause a "political bombshell" in Washington...
Barrett's midterm report on the Reagan Administration has already prompted news coverage of unknown or underreported events. A Reagan "mole" obtained President Carter's point-by-point strategy for the candidates' televised debate. Aide Richard Darman spirited away copies of constitutional documents to keep the Cabinet from weighing Reagan's fitness to hold office after he was shot. White House Chief of Staff James Baker, then manager of George Bush's presidential campaign, announced Bush's withdrawal from the California primary without consulting the candidate. But the book offers more than...
...statement was by no means a surprise. As he noted, wryly and accurately, "We do not believe that Washington counted on any other reaction on our part." But unwilling to let the Soviets monopolize European attention even for 24 hours, the U.S. State Department began composing a point-by-point rebuttal as telex machines were still chattering out the transcript of Gromyko's press conference. Spokesman Alan Romberg handed out the official American response at midday Saturday, in time for it to share evening TV news programs in Western Europe with tapes of the Soviet Foreign Minister...
Specifically, the WEAL brief contained a point-by-point rebuttal to the school's recent affirmative action "progress report," which had stressed the appointments of women and minorities in several non-tenured positions...
...nationwide women's group yesterday released a point-by-point rebuttal to a recent "progress report" on affirmative action issued by the Kennedy School of Government, arguing that the school has made only illusory progress in hiring faculty and improving its search processes...