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...Malone's brilliance and belligerence have become the stuff of legend. In 1991, for example, Malone was outbid by a rival in his attempt to acquire the Learning Channel. His response: TCI began dropping the Learning Channel from its local cable systems. The tactic killed his rival's deal, and TCI's 49%- owned Discovery Channel later purchased the Learning Channel at a steep discount. Malone is also known to cook up complex deals that can take cadres of lawyers and accountants a week to disentangle in order to sell and buy back assets. Just last week TCI said...
...American SDI while it is still only a gleam in the President's eye. Since there are reasons to question whether SDI is scientifically feasible or strategically wise, restricting the program to research in exchange for significant reductions in the most threatening Soviet weapons could be the deal of the century. Because of his awesome political strength, Reagan is in a unique position to cut that deal with the Kremlin and win the approval of Congress. But to do so, he will require not only the luck and acumen he has already demonstrated in such abundance but a clearer understanding...
...Largely as a result of the quiet urging of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Secretary of State George Shultz, Reagan has said repeatedly that SDI is a research program being conducted within the bounds of the ABM treaty. The nub of the American end of an offense-defense deal would be for Reagan to repeat that statement once again, only this time in a document co-signed by Gorbachev. Thus, even though the devil would be in the details and a full treaty would probably take many months if not years to negotiate, there is no mystery about...
...Samuel Johnson, as in ''No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.'' Burnham writes not only for money but for President Benjamin T. Winslow, bullying, foul-tongued and Johnsonesque (Lyndon, not Samuel), and the assignments are rarely more demanding than ''Representative Whipple has told me a great deal about the fine work you ladies are doing in the Leesburg Macrame and Dialysis Society.'' The President barely knows the name of this second-string hack until a bureaucratic glitch awards Burnham a ''Q'' clearance to receive atomic secrets. Though he has no idea what to do with them...
...much of what you wrote to be insightful and accurate. But by implying disapproval of Cuomo's management style, you missed an important part of the picture. What I find most unusual about Cuomo is his ability to be both a hands-on executive, capable of mastering a great deal of governmental detail, and a chairman of the board who sets the broad policies and agenda for his administration. Few successful executives in or out of government are as capable in both facets of management simultaneously. James L. Larocca Lloyd Harbor, N.Y. Cuomo's philosophy that there be a ''sharing...