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...White House chief of staff; for CIA director, George Bush, the chief of the U.S. liaison office in Peking. Senator Henry Jackson, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, charged that Ford was surrounding himself with "yes men and lackeys." The switches further increased the record number of high-level Administration changes since 1969, a churning of Government that not only reflects bad management but also has upset planning and subverted morale in many departments...
...interview yesterday, Dean Rosovsky bemoaned the passing of the Committee on Educational Policy (CEP), a high-level Faculty group that was supplanted five years ago by the Faculty Council...
...separate investigation of the CIA by the House Intelligence Committee was stalled in mid-September when President Ford objected to its release of material that he deemed vital to national security. Since then, the White House has refused all requests for more documents or more high-level witnesses from the Administration. In turn, Committee Chairman Otis Pike of New York threatened last week to ask the House to cite Administration officials for contempt of Congress...
...former Under Secretary of State Murphy's Commission on the Organization of the Government for Conduct of Foreign Policy. The report concluded: "Covert action cannot be abandoned, but it should be employed only where clearly essential to vital U.S. purposes and then only after a careful process of high-level review." The CIA is still the most appropriate Government agency to carry out that difficult, often unpleasant but inevitable mission...
Last week in efforts to smooth out the roller coaster and placate critics. President Ford moved to regulate future U.S.-Russian grain deals. He dispatched a high-level negotiating team to Moscow to try to work out stable, long-term grain purchase agreements; the group is headed by Charles Robinson, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. To allow time for the negotiations, Ford also extended for a month, until Oct. 15, the moratorium imposed last month on additional grain sales by Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz...