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  1. <text id=90TT2491>
  2. <title>
  3. Sep. 17, 1990: Talking Heads Sweepstakes
  4. </title>
  5. <history>
  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990               
  7. Sep. 17, 1990  The Rotting Of The Big Apple          
  8. </history>
  9. <article>
  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
  11. <hdr>
  12. GRAPEVINE, Page 19
  13. Talking Heads Sweepstakes
  14. </hdr>
  15. <body>
  16. <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Daniel S. Levy
  17. </p>
  18. <p>     Who is winning the battle to be the most interviewed
  19. "outside expert" on the Iraqi crisis? Here is a tally of TV
  20. appearances (on the three morning shows, the weekend gabfests,
  21. MacNeil/Lehrer and Nightline) and of mentions in major print
  22. publications (as tabulated by the Nexis database) during the
  23. month of August.
  24. </p>
  25. <table>
  26.     Expert               TV/Print        Basic Wisdom
  27. Les Aspin                10/275    That the public may not
  28. House Armed Services               support any military action
  29. chairman                           that is not purely
  30.                                    defensive.
  31.  
  32. Sam Nunn                  6/266    That the taking of hostages
  33. Senate Armed Services              "cannot be allowed to
  34. chairman                           dominate our policy."
  35.  
  36. Henry Kissinger           6/170    That America's national
  37. Former Secretary of State          interests require forcing
  38.                                    the Iraqis out of Kuwait and
  39.                                    a long stalemate would be
  40.                                    dangerous.
  41.  
  42. William Crowe             8/65     That the U.S. could "clean
  43. Former JCS chairman                the clocks" of Iraq in
  44.                                    combat, but then warns that
  45.                                    the operation would be
  46.                                    bloody.
  47.  
  48. Judith Kipper             4/58     That the crisis has ushered
  49. Brookings expert                   in a new era of belligerence
  50.                                    over resources like oil.
  51.  
  52. James Schlesinger         2/54     That freeing Kuwait is
  53. Former Defense Secretary           unrealistic. "We should
  54.                                    forget right now about that
  55.                                    particular objective."
  56. </table>
  57.  
  58. </body>
  59. </article>
  60. </text>
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