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...MANY voices whispering in the executive ear today, few convey a true picture of America's current position to the oval office. Two years in the Kennedy administration convinced Richard Barnet '52, Harvard Law '54, a onetime presidential adviser, that the president received too little input from people with enough courage to present to him more accurate, if pessimistic, assessments of his policies. Two decades later, Barnet explores the methods of American leadership and the reasons they fail to cope with the "politics of scarcity," revealing the extent to which manipulation of the world's natural resources influences our lives...
...Ricard Barnet came to work in the White House on the day of the Bay of Pigs invasion, and his susequent eye-opening experiences in the State Department provided him with a crash course in the machinery of American foreign policy. "I was gradually made aware of the increased involvement of the U.S. in Indochina. I sensed that there was something wrong with that and that it was being presented in a way that was very different from reality," Barnet explained recently from his suite in the Ritz-Carlton overlooking the Boston Common, a way-stop on a promotion tour...
...Will Barnet has been making prints for nearly 50 years; his reputation as a formal virtuoso and innovator is now secure...
...Will Barnet: 27 Master Prints (Abrams; 63 pages; $12.50) offers a sampling of work done over the past decade and provides fresh evidence of the artist's versatility. His lithographs employ a broad palette of muted, pastel colors, while the serigraphs are built up from large blocks of flat, brilliant hues. For subjects, Barnet favors women and cats in stylized arrangements leaning toward abstraction. Woman Reading, perhaps his best-known work, achieves an almost hieroglyphic serenity...
...party numbers many prominent personalities and well-connected organizers. Among its 100 sponsors are Barry Commoner, Studs Terkel, the best-selling writer. Richard Barnet, author of Global Reach and a founder of the Institute for Policy Studies, a leftwing think tank, Steel Workers insurgent Ed Sadlowski and the heads of the Gray Panthers, the National Public Interest Research Group, the Black Economic Research Center and the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. The party also has sponsors with channels to potential financial supporters. The include David Hunter, executive director of the Stern Fund, Adam Hochschild, publisher of Mother Jones, Archibald Gillies...