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Dukakis has long been advocating greater emphasis on conventional weapons. When the U.S. Navy sailed into harm's way in the Persian Gulf, Dukakis was driving to Washington's airport with Georgetown's Albright, a close adviser. "He said it was mind-boggling that the U.S. didn't have any minesweepers available," she recalls. "He was also stunned by the horror stories he heard about the lack of ammunition and spare parts...
Pamela Harriman, grand dame widow of Averell and a valued Democratic fund raiser, backed Senator Albert Gore in the primaries. Yet she managed to be on the dais with Dukakis, smiling silkily, as he delivered his first major foreign policy speech this month at the Atlantic Council. Georgetown denizens began whispering that she hopes to become the next Ambassador to the United Nations. At the same conference, Andrew Pierre, a Paris-based defense expert, was the first to ask Dukakis a question. "Andrew shot up out of his seat like a Pershing II missile," a colleague knowingly observed. In social...
...Join a Democratic Party policy forum. Georgetown University Professor Madeleine Albright, who has long been advising Dukakis on foreign policy, has seen her international-affairs advisory group more than double in size. Fred Wertheimer, director of Common Cause, spins out the pre-election ploys in a bureaucrat's rendition of rap: "You panel, you travel, you visit, you appear. Most of all, you be there...
Such dramatic revisions in the GNP, retail sales figures and other important statistics occur with maddening regularity. "The numbers are not bad," says Sidney Jones, professor of public policy at Georgetown University. "They are just premature." But the Government is under pressure from anxious investors and executives to report economic data as soon as possible. Observes Robert Ortner, the Commerce Department's Under Secretary for Economic Affairs: "If you want something quickly, you give up something." In this case, accuracy...
...order to pursue her diplomatic career, nextyear she will go to Georgetown University for afour-year law and foreign service program. "I hopethat will better qualify me as a diplomat on theinternational scene," she says. Khalil says shereceived one of her first lessons in how delicateMiddle-Eastern issues can be after writing acontroversial Government honors thesis, entitled"The Absence of Arab Retaliation During the 1982Israeli Invasion of Lebanon...