Word: bureaucrats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former lawyer and top-level bureaucrat, Ehrlichman writes surprisingly well in The Whole Truth. His Dean-like character, walking into a televised Senate hearing, "had no awareness of moving the parts of his body. He rolled on wheels, pulled by a string." Ehrlichman dwells too much on describing the furnishings of the capital's most notable drawing rooms, apparently in search of credentials as a serious novelist. Yet he knows Washington intimately enough to lure the reader along, even into that "double bed" above the Attorney General's office, which had been "the historic scene of demanding...
...over by a formidable middle-aged woman named Anna. She is headmistress of a progressive day school, and Mary Ann and Lolly, the girls, are her students. The other adults are Mary Ann's mother Honey, a fortyish Southern belle, and her father Bill, a stuffy but decent bureaucrat who runs a Government poverty program. They are soon joined by Lolly's parents, Celia, a pretty, distracted woman in her 20s, and Dan, an easy-riding adman in his late 40s. Dan and Honey turn out to be habitual flirts, and though neither is truly interested...
...political operatives have been tortured and killed by rebellious villagers, MiGs have been sent in on retaliatory bombing raids. But after dark, the mujahidin rule the rebel areas. "Our men bring their guns down from the mountains after the sun sets," says Abdur Rahim, a former government bureaucrat who now coordinates rebel activities out of Peshawar, a provincial capital in the northwest. "The war is like a good love af fair. All the action happens at night...
...antibureaucratic behavior would not be tolerated, the officials ordered him transferred to Philadelphia. Said he: "There's no question in my mind that this is a punitive action." Last week, rather than move, he resigned, observing correctly: "I guess I've got no future as a Government bureaucrat...
...Stansfield Turner. The CIA director looked better to Carter in Navy whites than he does in charge of U.S. intelligence. Carter is now said to agree with critics that his Annapolis classmate is too much of a lightweight and military bureaucrat for the job. Carter gives higher marks to Turner's deputy, Frank Carlucci. But because of the frequent turnover of CIA directors-five in six years -the President is reluctant to make a change...