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When the USIA's director Charles Wick, a buddy of Reagan's, got to Geneva, the Los Angeles Times's talented Washington bureau chief Jack Nelson asked him why U.S. Government spokesmen were just arriving when the Soviets had been putting out propaganda for days. Answered Wick: "You were here, Jack, that's all we need." Indeed, Nelson and his thousands of other colleagues in the free press were dispelling hogwash on all sides the moment they arrived in the old city...
Question: What do 3,614 journalists do in a picturesque Swiss city when a couple of bigwig visitors declare a news blackout? Answer: They pester government spokesmen about whether Ronald Reagan was secretly recording his talks with Mikhail Gorbachev (no) and how Nancy Reagan coped with the cold (long underwear). In this summit of images, the quintessential picture of the press may have been the pack that gathered around the President as he walked into a reception held by the Swiss government. "Have you agreed on anything?" they shouted. "Can't say," Reagan replied puckishly, throwing up his hands...
Only a few days earlier, Soviet spokesmen were talking as though there would be no "later on." They seemed to be predicting dire consequences, perhaps even a breaking off of arms negotiations, if the U.S. failed to give ground on SDI. Arbatov and other Soviets were portraying the summit as perhaps a last chance for an offense-defense compromise, an agreement for deep cuts in missiles in return for a curtailment of Star Wars. That there is now talk of long roads ahead, despite the fact that neither side budged on SDI, is in itself significant, since deadlines have...
University and FAS spokesmen declined to comment on Shleifer’s request and on whether Shleifer has been internally disciplined, saying that the case is ongoing. Shleifer did not return repeated requests for comment...
...told, not a bad year's work for Robinson, TransAfrica and its spin-off Free South Africa Movement. Working out of a basement office in southeast Washington, Robinson has evolved into a black leader to be reckoned with. South African spokesmen predictably deny his effectiveness. Says Embassy Press Attaché Pieter Swanepoel: "The activities have had no impact on government decision-making policy. How could they, when they are taking place so far away from where those policies are formed?" But U.S. Senators and Representatives who voted for sanctions against apartheid enthusiastically acknowledge that Robinson's cool, calm competence helped rally...