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William Safire, a self-styled "libertarian conservative," is also out of favor at the White House. In a recent column he complained that though he had once been a "lonely Reagan booster," he has been denied any interviews with Reagan because Safire "from time to time was-in Mr. Reagan's words to a press aide-hostile to us." Partly out of shrewd instinct, partly out of puckish perversity, Safire cannot be counted in anyone's corner, but "when my right-wing confreres and pols depart from principle I feel particularly pained." His working motto is "Kick them...
...second-and fourth-grade teacher in a Queens public school, she took night law classes at Fordham University, with financial help from her mother. The Congresswoman still uses her maiden name as a gesture of gratitude. Her mother remains an almost daily phone confidante and a shameless booster. Says the elder Ferraro: "Geraldine is such a hard worker. What honor she does...
...television critics go, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Mark Fowler has always been a booster. In his role as the Reagan Administration's point man for broadcasting deregulation, Fowler has argued for three years that unleashing the industry was the surest way to guarantee quality in programming. Thus there were gasps in the audience when Fowler mounted the podium last week at the National Association of Broadcasters annual convention in Las Vegas and let fly with some sharp rebukes for TV newscasters. "Too often, broadcast journalists are obsessed with getting it first, with confrontation, not coverage," said Fowler. Televised news...
...entire U.S. population, the panel said, depends on the ability to intercept Soviet missiles just after they have been launched, when their heat-emitting rocket engines provide a distinctive radar clue. No such "signature" is available during later stages of deployment, and detection is further complicated after the booster phase, when the rocket fires multiple reentry vehicles, including some decoys. Even if only 5% of Soviet missiles penetrated the space shield, the group argued, as many as 60 million Americans would...
...Soviets already have several means of foiling attempts at booster-stage interception. For example, the U.C.S. panel said, the Soviets could increase the power of their weapons' rocket boosters, cutting their burn time from a present average of 5 min. to as little as 40 sec. "We know very well how to defeat these defensive systems," says Henry Kendall, an M.I.T. physics professor and U.C.S. chairman. "We don't know how to build them." Further work on the project, the U.C.S. scientists contend, will destabilize the strategic balance, which depends on both sides being equally vulnerable to attack...