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Irrelevant Languages. Glazer provides a useful civics lesson in how difficult it is to stop bureaucratic action once it has been set in motion. When President Nixon was making headlines for his supposed slowdown of desegregation in the South, just the opposite was happening, says Glazer. Bureaucrats directed by Leon Panetta, head of the Office of Civil Rights, ignored Nixon and kept pressure on the South. While the end was desirable, the means were dangerous. Panetta even withheld relief to noncomplying Southern school districts in the wake of Hurricane Camille in 1969. Writes Glazer: "There is much to be learned...
...tung's private quarters in the Forbidden City, made several crucial changes in the country's leadership. First, the Peking leadership brought to an abrupt climax the intense ideological campaign against the notorious "capitalist reader" Teng Hsiao-p'ing (TIME Cover, Jan. 19), the wily little bureaucrat who only three months ago was considered Chou En-lai's sure successor as Premier. Because of the "counterrevolutionary incident that took place at T'ien An Men Square," the Politburo announced, Teng was being stripped of all his posts-Vice Premier of the government, Vice Chairman...
...problem as you are (you were really very good at facing the problem), but he'll succeed (he'll so to speak, be able to 'solve' it) where you didn't, because he won't have that problem at all. What the new man will do--what any efficient bureaucrat would do--is shape the problem not so there's no answer, but so there...
...partner and brother-in-law, Businessman Ralph O. Walton Jr. Callaway pointed out that he was not in Government at the time. But as the coordinator of Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign in the Deep South, Callaway was the sort whom many a Government bureaucrat would likely heed...
...regulatory agencies to justify its existence every six years-or quietly expire. The state senate is expected to approve the bill in the next few weeks. Legislators know that most agencies will fight hard to stay in business, but many will be forced to streamline themselves or-bureaucrat's nightmare-to consolidate with others...