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...fairness will not be sacrificed if that thesis is tested. And we did test it. When CBS News went into research for The Uncounted Enemy: A Viet Nam Deception, we talked with over 100 different sources. Many of them substantiated the charges of "cooking the books" by Military Assistance Command intelligence officers in Viet Nam during 1967 and 1968. Some did not. Both sides of that research were taken into account during the reporting, filming and assembling of the documentary...
...Brezhnev in November 1982 was mostly the product of wishful thinking, possibly aided by deliberate Kremlin disinformation. He does, however, have a reputation as the best-informed and most sophisticated Soviet leader since Lenin. Western diplomats who visited him in Moscow early in his tenure were impressed by his command of facts and sardonic humor. But French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, who met Andropov last February, found him "extraordinarily devoid of the passion and human warmth" that Russians often display...
...from what top Kremlin officials may say in public, the question remains: What are the Soviets really thinking? Though no definitive answer is possible, some U.S. experts believe that key Soviet military strategists consider a nuclear war "winnable." "What is most disturbing about what we observe from the Soviet command . . . system," Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Perle testified before a House committee, "is that it looks to us like one that proceeds from the belief that nuclear war could be fought...
Throughout the year, John Paul continued to command television screens and front pages in a conscious effort to gain maximum publicity for his message of peace in the world. Everywhere he went, the Pope preached on the mounting dangers of the buildup of atomic weapons; he sent written appeals to Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov and President Ronald Reagan to keep the arms-limitation talks alive. The Pope also achieved a long-sought goal: an agreement, which will soon be announced, to exchange diplomatic representatives with Washington...
...since the heyday of Birgit Nilsson, now 67 and retired from the opera stage, has there been a singer who dominated the German roles and triumphed in dramatic Italian parts as well. What set Nilsson apart was not only the breadth of her rep ertoire but her vocal command. That famed voice, instantly identifiable, was a cross between a celestial trumpet and lighthouse beacon: blazing, soaring, shining, glowing...