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REAGANISM faced down the Democrats again last week, when House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) was forced to recant the last of the positions he took in a revealing interview with columnist James Reston. In that interview, O'Neill let loose on Reagan, damning his work habits, his politics, his understanding of issues, and even his wife, whom O'Neill quipped "would become Queen of Beverly Hills" if the President were to leave office. He also called the recent U.S. invasion of Grenada unjustified. He criticized the administration's attack on the Caribbean island, saying the invasion...
That was New York Times Columnist Russell Baker's fantasy version of the state of conflict between U.S. military authorities and the press last week. But for many of the 400-odd American reporters and photographers trying to get a firsthand look at the invasion of Grenada, it was hardly a fantasy...
...Paris Bureau Chief Pierre Salinger, a former press secretary who was kept similarly in the dark about the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 by President Kennedy: "You can always make a deal with the press when it knows it is dealing with a national security situation." Argues syndicated Columnist Jody Powell, who was President Carter's press secretary: "The Government has not only the right but sometimes the obligation to lie. If I had been asked hours before an invasion if an invasion was about to take place, I would have denied it and tried to make...
...film's air date. Ground Zero will mail out 100,000 viewing guides. The Center for Defense Information is considering producing a 60-sec. commercial, narrated by Paul Newman, offering "a nuclear war-prevention kit." "I plan to send in for one of those kits," writes Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., "and if Mr. Newman doesn't send me an MX missile, I'm going to report him to the Postal Service people for fraud...
...center of the American conservative movement with the publication of his critique of alma mater, God and Man at Yale. His accomplishments would make the most energetic resume suffer blanche: editor and founder of his own conservative magazine (Reagan's announced favorite), television talk show host, syndicated newspaper columnist, lecture circuit fixture at $4,000 a fix, United Nations delegate under Nixon, and guru to conservatives everywhere...