Word: commanders
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...years, believes that only at such times can one judge the mettle of a President. Harlow, who came to town a Democrat and turned Republican, served both Eisenhower and Nixon at the White House. Along the way, he concluded that successful leadership must harden into the quality of command if a President is going to prevail. That entails both taking political risks and abandoning the search for perfect solutions. "The White House is always filled with people with strong wills," explains Harlow. "They get along beautifully in success. But when they get into travail, these hard heads believe they...
...times of trouble, it has been Harlow's observation, there are no absolutely correct answers to problems, only approximate ones. As he sees it, a President in command must hold his course, tell the dissenters to go to hell-if possible, making them like it-and inject a bit of fear into his adversaries. "World peace and economic health are the two issues before Reagan now," says Harlow. "The rest are dwarfed by them. The President is the whale and he cannot let himself be eaten by the guppies...
...last week Ronald Reagan was reaching for command, shoving his people into line, tuning them up and marching them off against incipient doubt and fear. On Thursday, after giving each of his Cabinet members a specific assignment in his new campaign to restore economic confidence, he seemed to be talking as much to the nation as to that small cluster of officials when he said, "They still won't believe us, but we are going to balance this budget...
...P.L.O.-National Movement command immediately blamed Israel for the terrorist attack, describing it as "part of the Zionist enemy's policy of continuing genocide against our Lebanese and Palestinian people." The Israelis made no public reply but privately indicated that they had had nothing to do with the bombing. A shadowy group called the Front for Liberating Lebanon from Foreigners claimed that it had engineered the assault. The group took responsibility for a second bombing that occurred almost simultaneously in the northern Lebanese town of Chekka, where an explosion outside a cement factory said to be owned by P.L.O...
...that they expect to sell to the general public. Scores of children sit in communion with batteries of special computers. The keyboards are arrayed with numbers, arrows and letters from A to Z in alphabetical order. In the Dial-A-Muppet game, Oscar the Grouch might pop up at command, grumbling encouragement. A science game called Spotlight utilizes a ray of light and two mirrors to illustrate how beams can bounce across space. The player manipulates the spotlight to illuminate a character named Steve waltzing back and forth across the stage...