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...dismay that apparently surprised Carter and his inner circle. When the State Department reported that there was consternation in several overseas chancellories about what the effect might be on U.S. foreign policy, Carter authorized top aides to disclose that he would not accept the resignations of Vance, Defense Secretary Harold Brown and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Almost everyone else was left to sweat out the President's decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter's Great Purge | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...last winter when the U.S. embassy in Tehran was seized by anti-Shah Iranians and the American Ambassador in Afghanistan was killed by terrorists, Defense Secretary Harold Brown was touring the West Bank of the Jordan River. His helicopter landed at an Israeli army post, and Brown went to a phone to talk with his deputy secretary in Washington. As soon as Brown finished his conversation, someone asked him if he intended to cut his trip short and return immediately to the Pentagon. "No," he said flatly. "Charles Duncan is there." Last week that trusted deputy was named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Engineer for Energy | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

Despite the loss of the Iranian sites, the Administration insists that the U.S. can adequately verify the arms pact. At last week's hearings, Defense Secretary Harold Brown emphasized that U.S. spy satellites and other means of gathering intelligence keep close tabs on the development, testing and deployment of all Soviet strategic arms. He even claimed that every new Soviet ICBM is detected while still on the Kremlin's drawing boards, presumably a rare public allusion to U.S. cloak-and-dagger activities inside the U.S.S.R. Pointing out that development of a new missile system takes about a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Spies in the Sky | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...fact, Hamilton was ousted after only 18 months because he upset the man who had built ITT into the world's biggest conglomerate, its demanding, autocratic chairman, Harold Geneen, 69. Hamilton's offense? Nothing more than some modest restructuring of the company into five operating divisions, and a bit of judicious pruning of corporate deadwood that had grown up under Geneen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Welcome Home, You're Fired | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...without delay and serving them up as meat pies. With Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou in peak performances, Sweeney Todd is a classic example of the remarkable virtuosity and range of the U.S. musical when it is in the hands of two flamboy ant masters of the stage, Director Harold Prince and Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim. It is also the closest Sondheim has come to writing an opera, albeit dark, cynical and morbid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Summer Fair | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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