Word: edwin
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...there are some damaging gaps. The State Department on some occasions has failed to mesh with National Security Adviser Richard Allen, who is supposed to coordinate the foreign policy advice reaching the President. Allen, however, lacks the easy access of his predecessors; he reports to Reagan through Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese. Some Administration insiders worry that Reagan is not getting the detailed analyses of foreign policy problems and options that would normally come from a strong National Security Adviser. That is an especially serious burden for a President who lacks expertise in foreign affairs...
Some sympathetic White House aides say that Allen, who reports to the President mainly through Counsellor Edwin Meese, is now being unfairly cast as a scapegoat. Most insiders, however, feel that he has managed to make a difficult situation worse by his inept efforts on the Hill. "He had neither the clout nor the brains to pull it off," said one Senate aide...
Will's speech was the conclusion of his three-part Godkin Lecture series, an annual presentation at the University which honors Edwin L. Godkin, founder of The Nation magazine...
...Edwin Meese delivered the bad news. "I'm afraid you can't go horseback riding today. Mr. President. We have too many important problems to discuss this afternoon...
...DIED. Edwin Link, 77, inventor of the Link flight simulator, a device used to train millions of military and commercial airline pilots for instrument landings; of cancer; in Binghamton, N.Y. A seasoned pilot at age 25, Link built his first simulator in 1929 and, as the head of Link Aviation from 1935 to 1954, went on to produce trainers for radar, gunnery and space navigation. Starting in the 1950s, he helped to develop a series of manned ocean explorers, including the first practical submersible with an exit hatch to allow divers to explore the ocean floor at far greater depths...