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...contras, Reagan appointed a three-member "special review board" to study the role of the NSC in the conduct of foreign policy. Named chairman was John Tower, the former Republican Senator from Texas and more recently a U.S. arms negotiator. The other review-board members are former Senator Edmund Muskie, a Democrat, and Brent Scowcroft, who served as Gerald Ford's National Security Adviser...
Private aircraft entering the TCAs must be equipped with transponders that automatically report altitude to the control tower; only about half of all private planes are currently outfitted with such devices. Edmund Pinto, senior vice president of the 260,000-member Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, said that "the whole system won't work unless the control system is modernized." Currently, a $12 billion plan to upgrade the nation's air- traffic operations is two years behind schedule...
Featured players in what Kennedy School officials call "The Crisis Game Video Case" include former Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie, who plays the president, former CIA Directory James R. Schlesinger '50, and Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History and a former advisor on Soviet affairs for the National Security Council...
...been nearly a century since the brothers James recorded their visions. Surely horror should have become an outdated category by now. Surely science should have driven a stake through its heart. But, no, the genre is, in every sense, the home of the undead. In the '40s Critic Edmund Wilson mused about the persistence of ghost stories: "What is the reason, then -- in these days when a lonely country house is likely to be equipped with electric light, radio and telephone -- for our returning to these antiquated tales? . . . First, the longing for mystic experience which seems always to manifest itself...
...were an important time for Edmund Wilson, a time of personal re- examination and rededication, a time of prodigious work despite illness, irritability and alcoholism. His mother died in 1951, and he inherited a 150- year-old stone house in upstate New York. There he began looking through a Hebrew Bible of his grandfather's and regretting that he could not read God's word as the Americans of an earlier generation did. So, although he was already at work on the Civil War studies that eventually became Patriotic Gore (1962), he now took up the study of Hebrew...