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When Lieut. Colonel Oliver North sat down at his computer terminal to compose memos to his superiors at the National Security Council, he made a common assumption. He thought his electronic missives -- relaying confidential details of the ill-fated Iran-contra deal -- were more secure than messages sent by post or by telephone. The magnitude of that error now confronts him in bookstore windows around the country. For not only have hundreds of those potentially incriminating messages been recovered by federal investigators but they also are available to all, in published copies of the Tower commission report...
...recent intellectual purges have been relatively mild when compared with past excesses. Liu Binyan, a leading journalist who was stripped of Communist Party membership in January for questioning its authority, remains a vice-chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association. Liu has further confounded the hard-liners by retaining his post as a reporter for the People's Daily, the official Communist Party paper. Astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, dismissed as a university vice president in January, was promptly reassigned to a research job. Such moves have helped reassure China watchers that there is no second Cultural Revolution in the making...
...itself again. His aides had succeeded as no Administration had before in managing and staging the news so that Reagan would be seen in the most favorable light where it counted most, on nightly television. In a forthcoming book, Behind the Front Page, David S. Broder of the Washington Post describes how CBS Correspondent Lesley Stahl once put together a tough, critical piece illustrating White House hype, full of flags, balloons and children. She expected to be chided for it; instead, a White House aide said he loved it and asked, "Haven't you figured it out yet? The public...
...Retired Army Major General John Singlaub, a fund raiser for the contras, threw some light on the origin of the idea of diverting Iranian arms-sales profits to the Nicaraguan rebels. In an interview with the Washington Post, Singlaub said he had suggested to two countries -- identified by the paper as Taiwan and South Korea -- that they pay a markup for weapons they were buying (such as torpedoes that Taiwan was purchasing from Israel) so that the extra funds could be diverted to Singlaub's contra-supply network. Further, said Singlaub, he had told North about this scheme in early...
...home often. Yet a full-time career in Japan would be too limiting for a conductor mentioned as a potential successor to Karajan in Berlin. Although there have long been predictions of his imminent departure from Boston, Ozawa speaks confidently of his future with the orchestra (his only permanent post). He is, he says, content...