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...suggest stonewalling Congress. Ronald Lehman, the chief arms-control expert on the National Security Council, argued to the President that the anti-Soviet sentiments aroused would make it possible to pass the MX in the Senate without any concessions on build-down. He was supported by Rowny and Kenneth Adelman, the head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. But Duberstein kept the pressure on to continue to seek an accord with both groups in Congress...
...near its fullest extent. Jeffrey Schille, a staff member of the National Institute of Education, says, "We have made a big turnaround in teaching the most basic skills to the lowest quartile of kids. But in raising the floor, we have at least kept the ceiling constant." Clifford Adelman, an analyst for the National Commission on Excellence in Education, finds that "all our expectations are phrased in terms of minimums. By focusing on the lowest common denominator, we are killing the kids in the middle. Nothing drives them to perform better...
...Roger Adelman, the assistant U.S. attorney handling the case, refused to comment yesterday and Breindel's lawyer, William Taylor could not be reached for comment...
...since then, Shultz's authority has been oozing away. The Middle East plan fizzled. Then Clark, with hardly a word to the State Department, decided to fire Arms Control Director Eugene Rostow and replace him with Kenneth Adelman, a young hard-liner whose slender credentials caused an uproar on Capitol Hill. Two weeks ago, State Department Loyalist Philip Habib was replaced as Middle East envoy by Robert McFarlane, Clark's deputy at the National Security Council. Although he will report to Shultz, McFarlane, in a convoluted arrangement, will remain an assistant to Clark. In both cases, the White...
...Clark who was responsible for the misguided embargoes against West European suppliers of parts for the Soviets' natural gas pipeline. Clark urged Reagan to stick to an unrealistically hard line in defending the size of this year's defense budget increase. He also sponsored Kenneth Adelman to be Eugene Rostow's successor as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, despite Adelman's unfamiliarity with arms control issues. Last spring Clark encouraged Reagan to go ahead with his curious star wars missile-defense speech despite the cautions of Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Shultz...