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...What is most fascinating about Helms is the unique amalgam of the old and the new in American politics that he represents. His personal style, his elaborate politeness and his reactionary ideals are out of an earlier era of Southern politics. Yet his political apparatus is the very essence of the new, nonparty politics of high technology...
...with thousands of armed men at his command inside Iran, Rajavi poses the most serious single threat to Khomeini's Islamic Republic. The attack on the Prime Minister's office confirmed that the Mujahedin have penetrated the highest levels of the governing hierarchy, including its security apparatus. Indeed, late last week another bomb killed Iran's general revolutionary prosecutor, Hojjatoleslam Ali Qoddousi, in his office near Tehran's Qasr Prison. Not even Khomeini is safe. Last month the guerrillas left a powerful bomb in his house at Jamaran, a village on the northern outskirts of Tehran...
...summer months; rather, something happens to it, or on it, like a moon caught in an eccentric orbit between the sun and, say, East Hampton or Bodega Bay. Astronomers know this event either as the "mental equinox" or "cranial eclipse." It is not serious, causes no permanent damage; the apparatus is simply altered while the body is on vacation. After Labor Day, when the body stands vertical again, the brain pops back into shape like an inflated cauliflower, proving its recovery by formulating the first white lie of the season: "Had a marvelous time. Marvelous." Oh, that brain. What...
...prices leaped in 1973 during the Arab oil embargo, the Nixon Administration sought to insulate consumers from the higher costs. Under Gerald Ford, energy regulation blossomed into a sprawling federal bureaucracy with responsibilities that reached into virtually every corner of the economy. Later Jimmy Carter reorganized and expanded the apparatus and gave it Cabinet-level status as the Department of Energy. Through all those initiatives, the U.S. energy troubles just worsened...
...Mitterrand government will, of course, need far more than luck to implement its program of change for French society, but the Cheysson-Reagan exchange illuminates an important fact: so far as France's powerful administrative apparatus is concerned, there is less to the latest government switch than meets the eye. Whoever is running the country politically, bureaucratic power within the French civil service remains guarded by the graduates of a small number of closely knit, government-linked grandes écoles (great schools), which also provide manpower for the national political parties, be they of the left, right or center...