Word: reporters
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...hypothesis assumes that a demand for the rockets was created by the current rebel offensive. Another is that both Ortega and Castro are rushing to help the F.M.L.N. before Gorbachev pressures them to cut off the rebels as part of his larger rapprochement with Washington. Foreign diplomats, confirming a report in the French daily Le Monde, said that a Soviet emissary told Sandinista and Cuban officials in Managua last week to stop arming the F.M.L.N. Salvadoran diplomats closed their Managua embassy on Wednesday and left the country in protest over the SA-7 shipments. But they stressed that relations were...
...legislation of some sort would come about." The British press, which lacks the protection of a constitutional right to free expression, is already being constrained by a law, passed in May, that sharply restricts what it can print on national-security matters. And a government-appointed group is to report next year on what additional measures are needed to protect the British public's right to privacy...
...year is 1991, and the scene is the beginning of a "crisis game" depicting what might happen in a superpower confrontation. Conceived, produced and anchored by Nightline's Ted Koppel, the one-hour program, The Koppel Report: The Blue X Conspiracy, will be broadcast by ABC on Thursday (Dec. 7) at 10 p.m. (EST). It is the first time that such a televised exercise has featured actual U.S. and Soviet foreign policy and military officials playing the roles of government figures. "I've played simulations against 'red' teams all my professional life," says retired Army Chief of Staff Edward Meyer...
...leaders must expect the unexpected and not always believe what they hear. The Soviet side is distressed as Washington gets mired in the constitutional procedures for authorizing the next in line -- the Speaker of the House -- to act as President. Later, the American team is incensed by an intelligence report, which proves to be erroneous, that the Afghan army has fired Soviet missiles armed with chemical warheads into mujahedin refugee camps in Pakistan...
...more carefully wrought than the quick-buck transactions that are currently coming to grief. Says J. Ira Harris, a Chicago-based senior partner of Lazard Freres: "These are only midterm grades. The real grades arrive when you have an old-fashioned recession and see who survives." When that report card is in, more raiders are likely to flunk the game they touted so highly: survival of the fittest...