Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...price to Douglas was his savings; the cost to Benedict was her life. This is the most sensitively rendered of nine crime tales of middle-class America. In each of them, Journalist Linda Wolfe sounds a persistent theme: warning signals usually precede "unpredictable" criminal acts. Her accounts are too brief for a true understanding of minds gone wrong, but she makes even the most absurd act -- and its subsequent explanation -- seem plausible. A carefully polished alibi is undone by an overlooked credit-card receipt. A medical researcher disappears, and the explanation lies in her $650 shopping spree...
...admittedly difficult White House switch on SALT II in May: Reagan's tentative decision to abandon the unratified treaty's limits on various strategic weapons. The NSC chief allowed news of the change to leak from a critical forum: a meeting of NATO foreign ministers. He refused to brief the press on the matter, leaving a less expert White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, to fumble with explanations. Poindexter was also blamed for failing to get the nuances across to the President, who gave highly confusing answers to questions at a press conference...
...Speakes complained that the significance of the review was overstated and Secretary of State George Shultz considered the pronouncement premature. While allowing that Poindexter, who holds a Ph.D. in nuclear physics, has a brilliant analytical mind, his critics contend that he is such a poor communicator that he cannot brief the Great Communicator in the big- picture, skip-the-details style that Reagan prefers...
...most serene athlete on hand was Soviet Pole Vaulter Sergei Bubka, 22, who twanged himself 19 ft. 8 3/4 in. into the brief Russian night, the highest anyone has ever flown on a swizzle stick. Immediately, Americans started questioning chemistry. "He's souped-up," said Earl Bell, who finished third. Fourth-Place Vaulter Mike Tully allowed, "He's the best athlete in the world, but he has edges. It all comes down to the doctors: it may be they've figured a way to get around the drug testing. He's not a normal athlete; he's not a normal...
...founder of Lerner Stores, a women's apparel chain. At Choate and Harvard, he was a schoolmate of John F. Kennedy's and later became a sort of goodwill ambassador between the Kennedy White House and the arts. Jacqueline Kennedy, after her husband's assassination, likened his brief tenure to the fleeting glory evoked in Camelot...