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California judge and loyal Reagan staffman; Director of Central Intelligence William Casey is a seasoned businessman and an energetic Republican campaigner; Caspar Weinberger does not have the background in defense policy to match his zealous commitment to the goal of rearming America (which is one reason why he has virtually turned over the Pentagon's arms-control portfolio to Perle); if confirmed, Kenneth Adelman, the Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations, will be the least qualified director in the 21-year history of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He is a political scientist whose main prior experience...
That seems unlikely, but much may depend on how convincing a case CIA Director William Casey and other intelligence officials can make to congressional intelligence committees at closed-door hearings this week. Presumably they will repeat an argument that several Administration officials began making privately to newsmen last week. What counts, the officials maintained, is not the intentions of the contras but those of the U.S. And the contras' hope of overthrowing the Sandinista government is a delusion of grandeur; they lack the numbers, training and equipment to do it. All they can accomplish is to harass the Nicaraguan...
...Casey Stengel's linguistic heir, Sparky Anderson, calls it something else. "Managing is always saying 'I think,' never saying 'I know,' " says the Detroit manager, sunning in a grandstand in Lakeland, Fla., where the Los Angeles Dodgers are visiting. Then he delivers his wonderful annual capsule analysis of the Tigers. "I ain't kidding now. This is an outstanding baseball team that I'll match against anybody in baseball-front line. They'll take their hacks at you. But then, there's a problem. You got to get the other side...
When the Government announced its suit, American Chairman Albert Casey said he stood by Crandall and expected the case to be "soundly repudiated in court." American contended that it and Braniff faced vigorous competition along their routes, so much so that they could not "have raised fares above competitive levels" even if they had tried...
...less effective selections are interesting, and the artistry of most of this work makes it an evocative elegy for a darkly beautiful region, and for the haunting struggles of the lives which unfold there. The edition includes a foreword by James Alan McPherson and an afterward by John Casey, writers with whom Pancake worked at the University of Virginia. The give us an idea of the talented troubled man who wrote these stories and tactfully offer a few hints to the mystery of his suicide. They confirm what the stories have already shown us: Breece Pancake intimately knew loneliness...