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...take U.S. intelligence so long to reach a not so remarkable conclusion? The intelligence did not seem to be faulty so much as underused. Explained Ray Cline, former Deputy Director for Intelligence of the CIA and now executive director for studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "It's one of the really great intelligence problems: where to put your talent and your time." In recent years, intelligence has concentrated on the areas of greatest concern: the Middle East and SALT. Given higher priority in Washington, the Soviets could have been detected much sooner...
...pollster divides his time between houses on Boston's Beacon Hill and in Georgetown. When in Washington, he spends most of his working and leisure hours with Carter's Georgians. Indeed, when three of them separated from their wives, the men temporarily moved in with him: first Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan, then Image Maker Gerald Rafshoon and finally Presidential Assistant Tim Kraft. Says Caddell with a laugh: "The President told me that I was running a halfway house for transients to and from marriage." Caddell's few relaxations include voracious reading, from bestselling novels to heavy...
...third branch of Government, Warren Burger's Supreme Court has avoided the hobgoblin of little minds. It has developed an almost elegant lack of judicial philosophy. This year's graven edict of the majority may turn up next year as a dissent. Observes Georgetown Law Center Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "The bar and the public are left without the ability to predict what the court will do even in similar circumstances. You don't know where you stand with this court...
...m.p.g. by 1984) and stuck to them despite protests from manufacturers. Some of her former consumer-rights colleagues claim Claybrook was too lenient in postponing the deadline for airbags; Ralph Nader has called her an "accommodator" and demanded her resignation. Detroit wants her to go for other reasons: the Georgetown-trained lawyer is known in the industry as the Dragon Lady. Says Claybrook: "I think that having critics is just a part of accomplishing something. It is also part of democracy...
...taxes, like everyone else, Democrat Clinton persuaded the assembly to raise them by $47 million. With the funds, Clinton will give the public schools their largest rise in state aid in history (20%), increase teachers' salaries (now among the nation's lowest), and improve care for the elderly. A Georgetown and Yale Law School graduate and a Rhodes scholar, Clinton has also regained power for the Governor's office that had been usurped by the legislature. Limited by law to two terms, Clinton is expected eventually to run for Congress...