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...Administration surely cannot forget the anger it provoked when it tried to blow the Salvadoran conflict way out of proportion, attempting to stir up a paranoic fear that Russians and their Cuban emissaries were making trouble in our back-yard. The more than $100 million in aid and 49 military advisers it dispatched then aroused indignation from foreign leaders and countless Americans, all reproaching the team of Reagan, Hang and Kirkpatrick for ignoring the all-too-apparent brutality of the Salvadoran armed militia...
Though the library announced in 1973 that Kennedy had taped conversations without the knowledge of participants, the release of a 29-page log identifying the officials and the discussion topics has created a new stir...
...picture division since 1979, is a sharp-eyed budget watcher in an era when studios spend $10 million on average per film and must earn back nearly three times that much just to break even. Columbia's recent big moneymakers include Kramer vs. Kramer, The Blue Lagoon and Stir Crazy. Among the TV hits it distributes are Hart to Hart, Fantasy Island and Barney Miller. Says Roy Furman, a leading film industry analyst: "Under Price, Columbia has had a greater percentage of hits on less cost per picture than any other studio...
...perfect because the events of last winter and spring proved that our immorality in Latin America can stir the indignation of the U.S. public. On May 3, 1981, 100,000 Americans rallied outside the Pentagon to protest our involvement in El Salvador; it took years before one-tenth that number bothered to cry out against the war in Indochina. The combination of fairly aggressive media coverage, the involvement of the Catholic church, and the degeneracy of the Salvadoran status quo was enough to focus attention for a few months on the nation, and enough to check our government's action...
...season's first snowfall seemed to stir creativity around the campus...