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...Joint Chiefs of Staff and the ten worldwide theater commanders. By enhancing their authority, the Packard panel hoped to overcome the interservice rivalry that has impeded military planning by the Joint Chiefs and execution by commanders in the field. The President also backed the creation of a "procurement czar," an Under Secretary of Defense to oversee the purchase of new weapons systems for all service branches and ride herd on a Pentagon bureaucracy that has produced $640 toilet covers and $7,600 coffee pots. In another report to be released this week, the Packard commission charges that "all too many...
...Carmel will elect a mayor. New York City or Chicago should have such a choice. The incumbent, Charlotte Townsend, 61, is a no-nonsense woman who cut her teeth on the board of the village library. Paul Laub, 41, who has amassed a million or so as Carmel's czar of schlock, purveying T shirts and other bric-a-brac, made his name fighting city hall over issues like illegally washing his sidewalk. A college-trained tenor and restaurant worker named Tim Grady, 27, an echo of the Woodstock generation who has no use for cars, wants to turn Carmel...
...Both Czar and revolutionary were despots under whom persecuted Russians managed to write and appreciate great poetry and prose. Both gave their names to Brodsky's city. He, in turn, adds a dimension that makes it difficult to return to ordinary reality. The Neva and its canals, he says, make Leningrad narcissistic: "Reflected every second by thousands of square feet of running silver amalgam, it's as if the city were constantly being filmed by its river, / which discharges its footage into the Gulf of Finland...
...ride herd on the overlapping and fractured weapons-buying bureaucracy, the commission would create a "Procurement Czar," formally known as the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition...
Once a dedicated foe of the French cultural establishment, Boulez has become his country's unofficial musical czar. Such is his clout that the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique commands a disproportionate share of the money that the French government spends on music. Boulez has influenced the design of the flexibly configured concert hall at the Cite de la Musique, La Villette, which will become the new site of the Paris Conservatory of Music in 1989. He is also vice president of the board of the new Opera Bastille, which will become the home of the Paris Opera...