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TIME ran the wrong photo of Robert Grey [Dec. 20], who has been nominated as deputy director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The man in the picture is me, Robert K. Gray, chairman of Gray & Co., public relations. Robert K. Gray Washington...
...still be, but last week he was celebrating an unofficial White House decision to back away from support for Robert Grey, a career State Department official who had been nominated by Reagan as Deputy Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. It was Grey's longtime association with Eugene Rostow, who heads the agency, and his brief service as an administrative assistant to California's liberal Democratic Senator Alan Cranston that inspired Helms to threaten the Senate leadership with a ten-hour filibuster to block confirmation. In Helms' view, even the hawkish President...
Helms, indeed, was cleverly used by White House aides, who have been unhappy with Rostow's performance as ACDA head. They sought to put him in his place by dumping Grey, even if that should prompt Rostow's resignation. "Rostow drives the West Wing up a wall," says one Administration official, claiming he intrudes into policy issues that do not involve his office and once even sent a written critique to the President about the Administration's Middle East policy. Rostow, who was recuperating from a hip operation in Connecticut, telephoned National Security Adviser William Clark...
...that of Richard McCormack as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, was also withdrawn from Senate consideration last week. McCormack was a Helms protégé. He was passed over when Democratic Liberals Edward Kennedy and Joseph Biden, angry over what Helms had done to Grey, threatened their own filibuster retaliation-precisely as presidential aides had foreseen...
...Twas the Night Before Christmas," Dec. 18. First shown in 1974, this cartoon has it all: sour old Scrooges, children in despair, a judicious town mayor, even gift lists returned from the North Pole marked "Not Accepted by Addressee." Narrated by Joel Grey, this adaptation of Clement Moore's famous poem is not recommended for people who fear mice...