Word: stahl
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Like the incoming Bush Cabinet, the new White House press corps has many familiar faces. Lesley Stahl, who covered Reagan's first term for CBS News, is returning. So are veteran Reagan watchers for ABC, NBC, CNN, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe. Yet White House reporters old and new take up their posts at a time when the beat, though still one of journalism's most prestigious, has lost some of its luster after eight years of obsessive news management by the Reagan Administration. "Like the peso, it's been devalued," admits...
...Spiegel, which is publishing the document this week, released its text last weekend. It reads in full: "Very urgent. Lieutenant Kurt Waldheim of General Stahl's staff requests that 4,224 prisoners from Kozara, consisting mainly of women and children and about 15% of old men, be sent on the way: 3,514 to Grubisino Polje and 730 to Zemun." Both were transit camps, channeling people to labor or concentration camps in Germany and Norway. There was no explanation of why the total (4,224) differed from the sum of the two separate figures...
Reagan succeeded in maintaining a personal, impenetrable "SDI shield" by emphasizing the nation's booming economy and relatively peaceful condition while capitalizing on his television image Stahl said...
Also, the information the press has received from the present administration "really reflects upon the character and style of the man at the top, even down to the press briefings," Stahl said, looking back on her eight years of White House reporting...
With new problems plaguing the administration, Stahl said she expects to see a change in the public's perception of television reports...