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...Hall of First Ladies on the ground level of the White House, and Reagan seems aware that he is exactly five minutes behind schedule. He leaves the elevator that has brought him from breakfast with his wife in the family quarters, bids a smiling "Hi, hi" to Secret Service agents and strides so quickly down the red carpet that the entourage must scurry to keep up. Reagan is not a morning person. He wakens at an unpresidential 7:30 or 7:45 (vs. 6 a.m. for Jimmy Carter). Today's 8 o'clock call from the White House...
...Organization, for which experts say there is abundant evidence, the Soviets have indirectly helped terrorist organizations through surrogates such as Libya and Cuba. But Dyess said Haig actually was using the word terrorism rather loosely to include Soviet support of "national liberation movements" and propaganda advocating "armed struggle," as hi El Salvador and Namibia. All of this can be broadly defined as terrorism, Dyess claimed, be cause it "creates a climate in which terrorism flourishes." Despite Dyess's attempt to soften Haig's accusation, it set off a sharp debate. Said Georgetown University Professor Walter Laqueur, an expert...
...viscerally trusts, likes, relies on; the Vice President, however, got on the ticket mainly because he represented constituencies different from the President's own. The best that the Vice President can realistically expect, therefore, is to serve his chief-as Mondale did Carter-hi the capacity of senior adviser without portfolio...
...than he has had in the immediate past. As the senior Cabinet officer, the Secretary of State is considered first among equals in various councils and committees. But that arrangement still leaves too much room for bureaucratic and personal rivalries; it also too often puts the Secretary of State hi the position of representing his own department's sometimes parochial interests against those of Defense, Treasury or Commerce. One solution would be for the Secretary of State to wear a second hat, analogous to the CIA director's additional title of Director of Central Intelligence, which charges...
...area-studies programs in high schools and colleges. However far removed this is sue may seem from the crisis of the mo ment in the Persian Gulf or Eastern Europe, the ability of the U.S. to deal with those regions ten or 20 years from now will depend hi part on the vigor of Arabic and Slavic studies around the country. A presidential commission correctly concluded hi 1979 that "American incompetence in foreign languages is nothing short of scandal ous and it is becoming worse." One so bering example: when a Soviet soldier hi Afghanistan briefly sought asylum...