Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kremlin's much vaunted missile force, which Reagan cites as proof of Soviet superiority, is far less diversified and mobile than America's. In a few years the most threatening of the Soviet rockets will themselves be threatened by the latest U.S. warheads. Some of those are already deployed on Minuteman intercontinental missiles, and others are destined for the Trident II submarine-launched missile and the MX. Even if the MX is defeated by political opposition, the Minuteman and the Trident II programs could still expose the Soviet Union to a mirror image of the "window of vulnerability...
...doubts about Amin from the start. Our investigations showed him to be a smooth-talking fascist who was secretly pro-Western (he had been educated in the United States) and had links with the Americans. We also suspected that he had links with the CIA, but we had no proof. In short, the KGB was pointing to a danger that Amin-if he could ride the tiger of Muslim insurgency and come out on top as the leader of an Islamic Afghanistan-not only would turn to the West but would also expel the Soviet Union-lock, stock and barrel...
...consider a shareholder resolution asking the company to set up a special review committee to investigate the company's activities in overseas markets. While the ACSR and the Corporation abstained on the resolution, committee members were angered by the firm's adamant contention that "no conclusive clinical or medical proof of any cause and effect relationship between cigarette smoking and disease has been discovered...
...story a few days later, it deleted mention of the incident. But ze'ev Chafets, director of Israel's Government Press Office, began to make noise. He accused the media of partiality in its coverage of the Middle East and singled out the abduction of the reporters as proof the media could not be unbiased. And Chafets revealed that the correspondents involved worked for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek and the Associated Press...
Relating the kidnapping story and its subsequent cover-up in no way constitutes an attempt to tarnish the reporting done by the journalist involved after their nightmare. Nowhere does proof exist showing that Kifner, Randal, Farrell and the others were biased in their coverage of the Middle East. But Americans has the right know about the incidental the abducted journalist reported from Lebanon at one time or another this summer during the Israelli Invasion. No one can say whether their news stories--consciously orsub-consciously--reflected the danger they knew they were...