Word: controller
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...Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations all tried to keep that race under control by means of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). Reagan says he supports the SALT process, but he opposes as "unequal" the SALT II treaty now on the Senate shelf. He says he would "send it back to the Soviets so fast they'll think we've got a new postal service." He would then try to negotiate with the Soviets a "real reduction in nuclear arms...
Unlike Nixon and Carter, Reagan, if elected, will almost certainly not declare himself his own Secretary of State. Says Adviser Fred Iklé, a former director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency: "He delegates well, like Eisenhower." Inside betting for Secretary of State now runs to William Casey, a former Undersecretary of State for economic affairs who took John Sears' place as campaign director this year, and George Shultz, a former Treasury Secretary. Other possibilities: Senator Paul Laxalt, campaign chairman, and former Nixon Aides Alexander Haig and Donald Rumsfeld. Sears urged Reagan to keep open the option...
...administration of a professional "city manager," responsible to the city council. The plan also called for a new system of voting designed to insure that minorities within the city would have a voice. "We knew it was a plan by Harvard and the lace curtain ethnics to get control," Vellucci says. "It was under the disguise of clean and honest government, but we knew what the real plot was." And so in the 1938 campaign, embattled opponents of Plan E termed it the work of "Harvard communists," and the city council voted to symbolically "secede" from Harvard should...
...Lyons went the old horsetrading era of city politics. There are still powerful neighborhood politicians in the city--Vellucci, for example. But from the Plan E forces grew a strong coalition--the Cambridge Civic Association--that has provided a heavy counterweight. For the last decade, progressives have excercised tentative control over the city council; they currently own five of the seven school committee seats. Their support comes now not just from the Brattle St. Wealthy, but from city tenants and young people interested in rent control and social issues...
...this national angst? The commonplace explanations--that at home Americans have given up on their government's ability to make life better for them, and abroad they see their nation humiliated in a world they can no longer control--just aren't enough. Political cynicism in America goes back at least as far as Ben Franklin, and American international omnipotence was always more the offspring of wishful thinking than of cold reality...