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...similar case of schizophrenia seemed to be afflicting the Reagan Administration. At a meeting of the 31-member Organization of American States in Brasilia, Secretary of State George Shultz pooh-poohed the Nicaraguan war hysteria as "self-induced... based on nothing." Said he: "Obviously they're trying to whip up their own population. But I can't imagine what the reason is for doing that." Then Shultz provided a possible answer. The U.S., he said in reference to Nicaragua's Soviet-sponsored arms buildup, was "trying to work in any way we can to cast this aggressive...
Network correspondents then troop triumphantly out on the White House lawn to mouth these comments as if they were repeating inside information instead of the daily Administration line. Washington's print journalists are a frustrated lot. Pooh-bah journalism is dead, and the role of the Washington columnist diminished, both having given way to television's visual immediacy...
...bought a blender, a mixer, a coffeemaker, a toaster, an iron, a shower curtain and living-room curtains from Sears. When they needed to fence in their yard, they got a Sears fence. Now the Fords are planning a family, and they are starting to visit the Winnie-the-Pooh collection of children's clothes...
...further south, where they do things big, more than 12,000 students from the University of Texas and residents of Austin mingled for the 20th annual celebration of Eeyore's birthday Eeyore is the perpetually gloomy donkey that appears in A.A. Milne's "Winnie the Pooh" books...
...pooh-poohs the many tragic terrorist attacks by mentioning them only in passings, and he seems oblivious to the repeated border incidents which the PLO knew would eventually draw the Israelis into Lebanon. Is Timerman so naive, so purblind as to think the PLO hadn't intended to use the Lebanese they had so long terrorized as a spit on which to roust the Israelis in world opinion? It was an option they always knew they...