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Defense Expert Bruce Blair's study of the hypersensitive command, control and communications system that would be involved in a nuclear war was a success. Too much of a success. As soon as Pentagon officials read the report, which had been commissioned by Congress's Office of Technology Assessment, they upgraded it to a supersecret clearance level known as siop-esi (Single Integrated Operation Plan--Extremely Sensitive Information). Only the President and a few top Defense officials are now permitted to see the paper. The classification is so restricted that even Author Blair, who is cleared for top-secret material...
...study examined "nuclear decapitation," or the possibility that a surprise Soviet missile strike could wipe out the U.S. strategic-command system and prevent the President from ordering a retaliatory attack. Said one senior U.S. military officer: "This is the single most dangerous document I have ever seen." The Pentagon dispatched an official with a top security clearance to round up copies and destroy them in a high-security incinerator in the offices of the Joint Chiefs...
...been lobbies. But never before have they been so numerous or quite so brazen. What used to be, back in the days of Bobby Baker, a somewhat shady and disreputable trade has burst into the open with a determined show of respectability. Tempted by the staggering fees lobbyists can command, lawmakers and their aides are quitting in droves to cash in on their connections. For many, public service has become a mere internship for a lucrative career as a hired gun for special interests...
...Challenger disaster, the speedy transfer permitted Graham to bring in a new and wholly untarnished leader for the shuttle program. He is Rear Admiral Richard Truly, 48, who had spent 14 years as a NASA astronaut and whose last duty before leaving the agency in 1983 was to command a flight of the Challenger. Departing from his post as head of the Naval Space Command, Truly vowed last week to "find the cause and fix it," and get NASA "back in business...
Jerusalem Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, who covered Shcharansky's joyful arrival at Ben Gurion Airport, was struck by his subject's aplomb and good humor. "With his command of the situation," says Flamini, "it seemed clear that Shcharansky was going to remain a newsmaker." Associate Editor Patricia Blake, who has written dozens of stories on Soviet dissidents and their struggle for human rights, including cover stories on Nobel Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov and Shcharansky himself, was pressed into service. Blake flew from New York to Jerusalem, where she succeeded in gaining one of the first exclusive interviews with Shcharansky. "I placed...