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Again and again, reported Conte, Gorbachev urged America to deal with the world as it exists and not to attempt to reshape the Soviet Union. "If the evil empire exists," he said, "let it exist." He also repeated what he said he had told Mrs. Thatcher during his visit to Britain last December: "I have no hope of turning you into a Marxist," implying that his listeners had no hope of turning him into a non-Marxist...
Back in Washington, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was insisting that talks could not be held without compensation and a formal apology from Moscow. But at the Soviet officers' club in Potsdam, and later at the U.S. military liaison mission house, U.S. and Soviet generals were quietly trying to sort out their differences over last month's slaying of Major Arthur D. Nicholson Jr. by a Soviet soldier. The officer was on duty in East Germany as part of the agreement between Washington and Moscow that each side can maintain military observers in the two Germanys. Out of the four-hour...
...America's Cup in 1977 and won the title Captain Outrageous, Turner showed up at a victory press conference roaring drunk and tugging at a bottle of aquavit. During a conference on arms control in Atlanta early this month, Turner dined with the likes of Jimmy Carter and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. When the conversation began to bore Turner, he produced a tiny TV from his pocket, set the device on the table and proceeded to watch a Braves game...
Viewers were first shown NBC's original 2½-minute profile of Mikhail Gorbachev, based largely on the new Soviet leader's euphoric reception in Britain last December: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher saying she could do business with him; former Defense Minister Denis Healey finding Gorbachev like a "Western intellectual, a poet." Then came Dolan's version: ominous shots of Soviet troops parading and an overlong interview with Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, who believes that so long as there is fighting in Afghanistan, there should be no talking at Geneva. (Secretary of State George Shultz, who in committee...
After Healey's picture was shown, Dolan called him "a longtime apologist for the Soviet Union, who himself was a member of the Communist Party. I think that would have been significant to point out in the story." This nasty McCarthyite innuendo went unchallenged on Today. The "significant" thing that Dolan did not say about Healey is that as Defense Minister from 1964 to 1970 he earned the enmity of the British Left as a wholehearted supporter of the Western alliance. This is a foretaste of what unbalanced journalism might be like...