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...British losses at Fitzroy once again highlighted the major weakness of their task force: the lack of an effective airborne early warning system similar to the AW ACS used by the U.S. The Falklands conflict erupted only a few months before the British were scheduled to install a comparable radar system in their Nimrod Mark 3 reconnaissance aircraft. About six weeks ago, London asked Washington for the loan of an AW ACS to repair that important deficiency, but the Reagan Administration refused. The reason: Washington's insistence that American servicemen, who would be necessary to operate the system...
...chamber. No grand initiatives are launched. No crafty deals are struck, no arms are twisted. Yet easygoing Howard Henry Baker Jr., 56, of tiny Huntsville, Tenn. (pop. 519), has become one of the most effective shepherds in the history of the cantankerous club that he leads. With an amiable aw-shucks manner, he wanders the corridors keeping his troops in line and his opponents placated. "The cloakroom becomes my office," he says. "The floor is my domain...
...touch base at least two or three times a week-more often if events warrant. "My approach with the President is very straightforward and direct," says Baker. "We communicate easily." In order to salvage the Administration's proposal to sell AW ACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia, Baker carefully choreographed the President's lobbying effort, even deciding details like which Senators should ride together to and from the White House. A special telephone in Baker's Capitol Hill hideaway-White House extension 806-gives him a direct line to the President...
...going to compliment Ken Anderson and get away with it. Anderson, 32, hailed last week by a florid Cincinnati sportswriter as "Jack Armstrong come to life in a football uniform," is the classic aw-shucks hero, resolutely unquotable, eager to point out that he is merely one cog in the great Bengal machine. That machine indeed has some brilliant parts, finely tuned by its no-nonsense coach, Forrest Gregg. One All-Pro wide receiver, Veteran Isaac Curtis, has been joined by another, exuberant Rookie Cris Collinsworth. Pete Johnson, a.k.a. the human bowling ball, is a hard-hitting, if not overwhelming...
Since you so competently evaluated the Reagan Cabinet, why not rate the President? He has succeeded in getting his tax and budget proposals as well as the AW ACS deal approved. Yet his policies in the Middle East are inconsistent; the economy is sinking; relations with our allies deteriorating. I give...