Word: reporter
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...information Higgins could give Hizballah was unlikely to harm U.S. security. He did not, for example, know the names of secret agents in the Middle East. No U.S. operations were changed as a result of the kidnaping. "The main danger was to Higgins," says an official familiar with the report. "It was a stupid posting...
...ministry official as saying Iran had refused a Bush message about the hostages sent via a third country. "Since the content had nothing to do with Iran," the news agency quoted the official as saying, "the message was not accepted." Tehran's denials were contradicted by an Israeli intelligence report claiming that Obeid had confessed that Hizballah's terrorist activities were directed by the Iranian embassies in Beirut and Damascus...
...House task force on terrorism chaired by then Vice President Bush recommended limited and well-defined military retaliation in a hostage crisis if all other means failed. "((The panel)) would not approve of wanton destruction of human life . . . in order to show some muscle," said Bush in introducing the report. Armed force would be used only "where it can be surgically done...
Only in this context is it possible to appreciate fully the importance of the publication last week of A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society, a landmark 588-page study by the National Research Council that strives to update reports by the 1968 Kerner commission and Gunnar Myrdal. Edited by black economist Gerald David Jaynes and white sociologist Robin M. Williams Jr., A Common Destiny represents the nation's most definitive report card on race relations in 20 years. And America has flunked...
...theory, it is laudable that A Common Destiny resists the easy summary that leads to TV-style sound bites. But there is also the danger that the report may be unjustly ignored. The enduring value of A Common Destiny can be found in the mountain of evidence it marshals to rebut a series of debilitating myths about the true state of contemporary race relations...