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...policy of systematic deception. There is no better illustration of this than Chief of Staff Donald Regan '40's candid comments in a recent New York Times interview. "Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follows a parade down Main Street cleaning up," he said. "We took Reykjavik and turned what was really a sour situation into something that turned out really well...I don't say we'll be able to do it [with Iran]. But here we go again, we're trying...
...pair of shadowy figures slipped into a whaling station north of Reykjavik, Iceland, and set about systematically destroying its computers with sledgehammers and dousing factory records with acid. Before dawn, in Reykjavik harbor, the saboteurs opened the sea cocks of two of the nation's four whaling ships. Little more than half an hour later, the vessels sank...
...former CIA personnel supplying aid to the contras fighting in Nicaragua, the campaign of "disinformation" against Libya proposed by the National Security Council, and Reagan's befuddled and dubious accounts of what he proposed during his dangerously fanciful discussions of total nuclear disarmament with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik...
...really know what the Pentagon censors want removed. The sections they want to classify may have nothing to do with, say, the feasibility of the program or the desirability of testing outside the laboratory during the next decade--the very issue that provided the President with an excuse at Reykjavik for weaseling out of the most sweeping arms limitation proposal ever considered by the two superpowers. But we do wonder why the Reagan Administration would want to suppress information that could answer crucial questions about SDI. We worry when the government limits public knowledge and discussion about decisions that involve...
Most of the Washington press corps has long since grown resigned, fatalistic or cautious about its situation. But not Boston-based New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis, who began an angry column: "Ronald Reagan has never been more breathtaking as a politician than in the weeks since Reykjavik. He has pictured failure as success, black as white, incompetence as standing up to the Russians. And according to the polls, Americans love the performance...