Word: offing
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The report did not discuss White House-State Department relationships under President Nixon. But Nixon's conviction that foreign policy is his forte and the strong influence of Henry Kissinger, the President's national security adviser, are unlikely to improve State's standing in the Washington power...
Dedicated Masochists. TIME Correspondent William Mader, who has observed American diplomats in Washington and overseas, sums up: "In a sense, to be an American diplomat, one has to be a dedicated masochist. The department has more than its fair share of truly able, even brilliant people. But in far too...
There is considerable doubt that the latest report will have any better results than similar if less probing studies in the past. Bureaucracies tend to perpetuate themselves and are rarely amenable to drastic change, even from within. Asked one career diplomat: "Have you ever seen a bureaucracy cutting itself to...
IT was not exactly an intimate rap session, as nearly 600 seamen, submariners and officers jammed a base theater at Pearl Harbor last week. But the pert WAVE spoke up boldly on behalf of two of her service friends with an unusual problem: "She works a day shift while her...
? At Fort Benning, Ga., it was 0600?reveille hour?but no bugle sounded. So SP/4C Terry Reed dozed blissfully until 7 a.m. Reveille has gone out of style at Fort Benning; all a soldier need do is get to his first duty post on time.