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Memoirs of a President Once again an all too familiar tale of bloodshed and tragedy in the Middle East dominates the world's news. In Lebanon, foreign soldiers troop the streets of Beirut in hopes of keeping that country's feuding factions from one another's throats. In Israel, a nation shaken by the question of its culpability, by omission or commission, for the massacre of Palestinians in Beirut, Prime Minister Menachem Begin faces the greatest challenge yet to his five-year rule. Against this backdrop, TIME begins excerpting on the following pages the memoirs of an American President...
...mass murders. Two days after the scope of what had happened was fully understood, Reagan took to national television to restate his determination to get the Israelis out of Lebanon, and announced he was sending the U.S. Marines back to Beirut, along with French and Italian troop contingents, to try for the second time in five weeks to maintain the peace there...
...Secretary of Defense MacNamara eluded angry demonstrators during his visit to Harvard.) Although the food tunnels are also closed, students are occasionally granted access to them for various food-related errands. Tunnels under the Houses have lost all intrigue because of unlimited access--whole audiences have been known to troop through the caverns of Dunster, for example...
...suit is the latest upshot of a controversial Jan. 23 documentary titled The Uncounted Enemy: A Viet Nam Deception. The 90-min. program charged that Westmoreland, while commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, joined in "a conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence" to misrepresent enemy troop strength during the year leading up to the January 1968 Tet offensive. In July, CBS News President Van Gordon Sauter, responding to criticism, admitted that the documentary, produced by George Crile, had violated some of CBS'S journalistic ground rules, and that the claim of conspiracy was "inappropriate...
...cold-blooded attack on a military band and a troop of men riding beautiful horses on parade in London [Aug. 2] will help to liberate Ulster is a puzzle. Bombs and bullets are not the solution to this intractable problem. The Protestants of Northern Ireland are not likely to surrender their lives to the tender mercies...