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...Reagan administration has protested that this document was the product of an overzealous contract worker, a simple mistake. That's the problem. This booklet clearly explains the tactics and intentions of our Nicauraguan mercenaries, something Reagan would do only by accident. The Administration has been supporting a small army that hopes to gain power by assassination and hold it through intimidation, precisely the qualities abhorred in the Sandinista government...
What is most unusual about the booklet is that it surprised anyone at all. Even Walter Mondale missed the point when he called for CIA director William Casey's resignation for advocating un-American mischief. The activities of the CIA in the not so-secret Nicaraguan war have been public knowledge for months...
...lack of press coverage of that region Reagan has been able to play down the real consequences of his policies, making the contras sound like cartoon GI Joes fighting for truth and justice with guns that only kill Commies. The matter-of-fact Macchiavellianism of the CIA's booklet underscores the ugly truth that we are not with the good guys, which is not to imply that we are lighting them, either...
Manuals for smaller, less expensive items can also be frustrating. Instructions for a Pulsar digital quartz watch ($59) go on for 13 pages before telling how to set the time. One Hewlett-Packard financial calculator ($110) comes with an operating booklet that runs to 246 pages of small type. The company supplements that with a 170-page training guide that sells for $15. "People have said we should do something like this for all our manuals," observes Janet Cryer, who wrote the guide...
Many retailers are impressed with the manual for Apple's new Macintosh computer. Designed to be used with tapes and video displays, it guides Macintosh owners gently through a technological thicket. Says Chris Espinosa, 22, an eight-year Apple veteran who supervised the booklet's preparation: "A good manual is not a narrative; it is an outline or report. Nobody ever reads a manual cover to cover-only mutants do that...