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...documentary The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception appeared to accuse retired Army General William Westmoreland of being one of the principal figures behind a "conspiracy at the highest levels of American military intelligence." The alleged aim was to underreport enemy troop strength and create the illusion that the U.S. was winning the Viet Nam War. After the January broadcast, the angered general turned down the network's offer of 15 minutes' rebuttal time and last September slapped CBS with a $120 million libel suit. That suit is generating its own prickly set of constitutional complications...
There was more than a hint of embarrassment, though. The report provided details on eleven "principal flaws" in the preparation and production of the program. Among them: a failure to prove that there was a "conspiracy" to underreport enemy troop strength; failure to identify one of the sources as a "paid consultant"; "an imbalance in presenting the two sides of the issue"; and the "coddling of sympathetic witnesses" when the documentary was filmed. Also included in the report were transcripts of some interviews done for the show that displayed apparent coaching of a source by a CBS journalist...
WASHINGTON--The trip by Secretary at State George P. Shultz to the Middle East reflects a judgment by the Reagan Administration that agreement on a troop withdrawal from Lebanon is the key to progress on an overall Middle East peace...
...much ballyhooed "invasion" - actually a series of hit-and-run raids by guerrillas operating inside Nicaragua. And a stream of reports by American newsmen who have visited contra bases in Honduras has left no doubt that the Administration is assisting them by supplying training, arms, and intelligence on troop movements in Nicaragua's northern provinces gathered by spy plane...
...last week, as were French and Italian members of the 5,200-man multinational force in Beirut, but not by Israelis. Most of the examples of Israeli harassment occurred when Ariel Sharon was still Defense Minister. His apparent motive: to ensure that Israeli rather than American or other foreign troops would guard the Lebanese side of the border once a troop-withdrawal agreement had been signed. Such confrontations have diminished since Sharon's replacement as Defense Minister by Moshe Arens. Many of the events Barrow referred to involved not the Marines of the multinational force but American officers...