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...bureaucracy, charged Goldwater. When the Marines landed in Beirut in 1982, their orders sifted through no fewer than eight levels of command. The Marines' failure to dig in properly against terrorist attack--at the cost of 241 lives--was attributed partly to signals lost or mixed up in the endless command chain. Bureaucracies inevitably breed officers who have little better to do than trip over one another. The U.S. fought World War II with 101 three-star generals and admirals; now there are 118. Observed Nunn: "It takes more admirals and generals to wage peace than...
...returned to Cairo only the previous day after what he had regarded as a successful trip to Washington, denounced the raid as a "horrible criminal operation" that posed "a major blow to peace efforts." Argued Mubarak: "If we counter terror with terror, we are going to have an endless chain of terrorist operations." Mubarak's prediction appeared to have been borne out by the news from Beirut that an Islamic fundamentalist group had announced that it intended to "execute" an American hostage, U.S. Embassy Political Officer William Buckley, in retaliation for the Israeli raid (see following story...
...Baldrige, 58, has a solution for almost every imaginable corporate conundrum. Trying to make a smooth sales pitch in Peking? Do not wear white, the Chinese symbol of mourning. Stuck at a monotonous meeting? Do not doodle, and refrain from "conference table tics, such as bending paper clips into endless combinations or rolling bits of paper into tiny balls," Baldrige advises. Preparing a menu for the office Christmas party? Keep it simple and "save the snakemeat canapes and the blanquette of hare for your personal parties...
...After Hours meanders along to the beat of a surrealistic cinematographic drummer by photography director Michael Ballhaus, who captures that side of New York that Mayor Koch hopes we don't see. Not that Soho after hours doesn't look like an interesting spot, offering the prospective tourist an endless range of entertainment possibilities, ranging from punk rock clubs decorated in a nouveau underground garage to slimy bars frequented by leather and spike clad homosexual bikers. But this is not the kind of thing New York Air tells the folks from Des Moines about. As the camera pans across...
...caution their reporters to seek enlightenment rather than drama, but they stand in a minority. More of the participants at these events believe that both their editors and the public want to see a confrontation. The White House works to avoid it, so few surprises emerge, though there is endless blathering later about the color of the President's skin, the timbre of his voice and what this word or that phrase meant compared with what he said someplace else. A little of that is worthy grist: e.g., Reagan's complexion. Three days later the President went to Bethesda Naval...