Word: argument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intricate, with religious, legal, family, political, economic, humanistic and military considerations so delicately mixed. We seek to dissuade some leaders from doing certain things, to persuade others to act, a ritual as old as civilization but raised now to the speed of electronic signals and extended to every argument that can be reached by TV cameras...
...final interview of a long, exhausting day of campaigning by Senator Edward Kennedy. Reporter Rollin Post of KRON-TV in San Francisco was trying to draw him out on Iran without much success. For a parting shot, Post asked Kennedy what his reaction was to Ronald Reagan's argument that the Shah should be allowed to stay in the U.S. because he had been a loyal friend. Kennedy answered with an emotional attack on the Shah, who, he claimed, "ran one of the most violent regimes in the history of mankind." How can we justify taking in the Shah...
...interventionist argument crumbles at the touch of logic. What if that quick-strike force had been at our disposal last month--would it have helped President Carter find a way to get the embassy hostage out alive? Would it have cowed the religious fanatics who provoked the crisis? Would it have accomplished anything except to make America look foolish for having spent billions...
...good at deciding who could have said what, particularly when anonymity operates by understood code names: a "senior State Department official aboard the Secretary's plane" used to mean Henry Kissinger, and now means Cyrus Vance. A diplomat or bureaucrat can privately get across his side of an argument, or an explanation of policy, while publicly stating his position in Saran Wrapped platitudes. Not wanting to be used, reporters constantly labor to get off-the-record statements put back on the record but must often settle for not-for-at-tribution...
...asked to step down because the programs he introduced did not lead to the earnings gains many people had hoped for. Zenith, however, said that his decision to leave had been entirely his own." To make plain where the reporter's suspicions really lie, the Times caps the argument with this curious sentence: " 'Mr. Nevin's record is not unblemished,' commented one Wall Street analyst...