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...victory earned the lights the first-ever Winant Cup, the award that will go to the winner of the annual Radcliffe Penn light weight showdown...
...looks as if the next time the U.S. invades some place like Grenada, there will be reporters and photographers along. A panel of military officers and former journalists, headed by retired Army Major General Winant Sidle, has been wrestling with the issue. All the participants seem to recognize that the Reagan Administration's two-day news blackout during the invasion last October was not healthy for the military, the press or the country...
Nonetheless, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have asked Winant Sidle, a former public affairs officer at the Pentagon, to help develop guidelines for press access to future military actions. Contrary to some public suspicions, secrecy is not the problem; the press has always been willing to respect agreed-upon security strictures. Nor are logistics necessarily an obstacle; a small group of reporters can act as a "pool" for the rest of the press. Although Sidle has not completed his proposals, his main worry seems to be that the press is too negative. Says he: "They are always looking for somebody...
...shouts of "Go, baby, go!" echoed across the base at White Sands, N. Mex., as the sleek dark-green Pershing II missile shot up, up and away last Friday in its first successful test firing. "I can tell you there was a sigh of relief back here," said Winant Sidle, a spokesman for manufacturer Martin Marietta. David Harris of the Army Missile Command, who had watched three previous tests go awry, wept as the missile disappeared in a corkscrew of smoke and headed downrange for 66 nautical miles over a desert dotted with sagebrush and yucca. "Congress told...
...student committee will be formed early this fall, and the Faculty committee has not yet met. So far, Counter has asked author Alex Haley, conductor Seiji Ozawa, and United Nations treasurer Rivington Winant to serve as associates...