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...would be quite easy, in weaving together a 12-month retrospective, to produce a mocking portrait of the sitting Administration. Its personnel problems have rivaled those of the Harding presidency, as successive agencies have been marked by incompetence or scandal. James Watt, Anne Burford and Kenneth Adelman have come to symbolize the abuse of power and the perversion of goals by those charged to pursue them Reagan's policy problems have also worsened. His depression-high unemployment and his record budget deficits contributed first to Republican losses in November's election, then to loyalty losses in Congress. The extent...
Such feats are all in a week's work for the two Senators and eleven Congressmen from Massachusetts. The close-knit, mostly liberal delegation is the bane of President Reagan on Capitol Hill. After Reagan nominated Kenneth Adelman to direct the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas provocatively suggested that Adelman's defeat would be "the Senate's equivalent of a nuclear freeze." The freeze movement was spearheaded in the Senate by Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy and in the House by Markey. And after Reagan denounced public service jobs as "make work" programs...
...correction deserves another. Kenneth Adelman is busy as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He hung by his thumbs for two months while a group of Senators played President, not their job. They were rebuked, and Adelman was confirmed. Reagan's covert operations in Central America got more attention than he anticipated and slowed him down in using the CIA in Nicaragua and sending more military advisers to El Salvador. But Reagan will have another say this week in a speech before a joint session of Congress...
...resulting harder line has produced a backlash in Congress. He has generally backed Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's resistance to budget cuts, even when it was clear that Congress would insist on trims. Clark is getting much of the blame for the politically costly skirmishing over Kenneth Adelman's nomination as arms-control chief; he was Adelman's main sponsor. And last month Clark encouraged Reagan to make his star wars missile-defense speech, despite the worries of other Reagan aides that it would reinforce the President's reputation for hawkish loose talk...
...businessman and an energetic Republican campaigner; Caspar Weinberger does not have the background in defense policy to match his zealous commitment to the goal of rearming America (which is one reason why he has virtually turned over the Pentagon's arms-control portfolio to Perle); if confirmed, Kenneth Adelman, the Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations, will be the least qualified director in the 21-year history of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He is a political scientist whose main prior experience was as an aide to then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and as a strategic analyst...