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...minute lead over all competitors, of the bombing attacks that killed almost 300 U.S. and French troops in Beirut last October. Yet Reuters does not hurry stories onto the wire before they are confirmed. New York Times Assistant Managing Editor Craig Whitney praises Reuters for reliability and restraint: "It is low key, cautious, thorough and not sensational." Says Jerusalem Post Editor Ari Rath: "With Reuters, you rarely have to ask, 'Do you have it from another source as well...
...Wall Street Journal and a jazzy upstart, USA Today. While the expansion of TV newscasts cut into papers' influence, the print reporter's education, status, wages-and expertise-reached new heights. Although a post-Watergate arrogance infected some journalists, many others learned to operate with sensitivity and restraint. If print journalists were villains in an Oscar-nominated movie, Absence of Malice, they were the heroes in an Emmy-winning TV series that ran five seasons, Lou Grant...
There has been widespread endorsement of "no-first-use", "non-use" and the analogous concept of nuclear free zones, most particularly by the non-nuclear nations. India's Indira Gandhi and Canada's Pierre Trudcau have made impassioned pleas for declarations of restraint by the nuclear powers. Pope John Paul II has echoed these sentiments...
...Begin and said, in so many words, that I hoped there was no ambiguity on the extent of our concern about possible future Israeli military actions in Lebanon. The President and I wanted to make it very clear that we sincerely hoped that Israel would continue to exercise complete restraint and refrain from any action that would further damage the understanding underlying the cessation of hostilities. Israeli military actions, regardless of size, could have consequences none of us could foresee...
Begin's reply testified to the depth of his feelings: "You advise us to exercise complete restraint and refrain from any action . . . Mr. Secretary, my dear friend, the man has not been born who will ever obtain from me consent to let Jews be killed by a bloodthirsty enemy and allow those who are responsible for the shedding of this blood to enjoy immunity." Reading these phrases, I understood that the U.S. would probably not be able to stop Israel from attacking...