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...familiar position on the podium of the State Department pressroom, Bernard Kalb announced to stunned reporters that he chose to "dissent from the reported disinformation program." Said Kalb, a former correspondent for NBC and CBS: "You face a choice, as an American, as a spokesman, as a journalist, whether to allow oneself to be absorbed in the ranks of silence, whether to vanish into unopposed acquiescence or to enter a modest dissent." He added, "Faith in the word of America is the pulse beat of our democracy...
...dissenting from Secretary Shultz," insisted Kalb. "To me, he is a monument of credibility, integrity, courage, strength." Shultz was equally gracious about his departing press secretary, saying, "I am sorry to see Bernie Kalb go. I admire him as a fine journalist, respect him as a colleague and adviser, and value him as a friend." In Kalb's nearly two years at the State Department, he had grown close to Shultz, nudging him into appearing on television more frequently to play up his role as advocate for the Administration's foreign policy...
...Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization alleged that Syria was behind new threats in France. Among those advocating attacks last week was the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, which demanded the release of several militants jailed in France. More chilling, the group's communiqué suggested that French Journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann, who is one of eight French citizens being held hostage in Lebanon, should be executed as a "Zionist spy" to protest a visit to Paris last week by Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres...
Kauffmann's abductors, the extremist Shi'ite Islamic Jihad, had different ideas. Apparently hoping to capitalize on the U.S.-Soviet deal that resulted in the release of American Journalist Nicholas Daniloff, the Iranian-backed group on Oct. 3 released a videotape of two of the six remaining American hostages, Terry Anderson and David Jacobsen. Both men charged that the Reagan Administration was not pursuing their release as vigorously as it had sought Daniloff s. Three days later the kidnapers released a videotape of three French hostages...
...feels that everybody should love him," says Salisbury. Asserts a former employee who incurred Rosenthal's wrath: "He demands absolute, complete loyalty, and when he doesn't get it, there's trouble." Yet even this reporter tempers his criticism with praise: "Abe Rosenthal is an extraordinary journalist. He asks the best questions I've ever heard...