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...start of Nixon's second term, Haig was made Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, a four-star rank culminating a spectacular rise from colonel in four years. When he was called back in May 1973 as White House chief of staff, his strength and discipline helped the Government traverse Watergate without disintegrating. Haig kept faith with his President, and he kept faith with the nation's institutions. It was a unique and indispensable service...
Worse yet, guess who runs away with five stars on this one. Brown and Stanford. Then again, both of them have four-star ratings for social life, and you know what that means: they're party schools...
...four-star drive to become what he called "the vicar of American foreign policy," Secretary of State Alexander Haig has endured a dizzying eleven-month roller-coaster ride. Yet after all his ups and downs, Haig, 57, seems to have achieved what he wanted. Foreign policy is now coordinated not by the emasculated National Security Council but by interagency groups chaired by the State Department...
...missile boats out of the hands of Iran's fundamentalist Islamic regime. The pirate force was led by Admiral Kamal Habibollahi, a former commander of the Shah's imperial navy. Habibollahi's military colleagues in the organization have equally imposing records: their leader is former Four-Star Iranian General Bahram Aryana, onetime chief of staff of the Iranian imperial armed forces. The organization wants to restore the old order in Iran, and possibly reinstall the Pahlavi dynasty, currently headed by the Shah's son Reza. The group's leader, General Aryana, reportedly left Paris three...
...jaundiced eyes of many businessmen, nationalization seems to be part of a general "policy of revenge"?along with the stiff new surtaxes on expense accounts, four-star hotels, private boats and incomes over $65,000. Says one private banker, with considerable hyperbole: "My family and I are going to be virgins sacrificed on the altar of a Socialist god!" Says an embittered business leader: "The Socialist leveler tide just may succeed where 200 years of recurring French puritanism has failed: to make France colorless and downright boring." As for the shorter workday and higher minimum wage, businessmen insist that...