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...White House correspondent, Barrett naturally spends a certain amount of time trying to fill in his blank "dance card" with high-level sources in the Carter camp. But the broad terms of the job are as familiar to him as the keys on a typewriter. For 20 years, Barrett has made U.S. politics his beat. A graduate of Columbia's School of Journalism, he joined the New York Herald Tribune in 1957. Soon he became the Tribune's city hall bureau chief, with a regular column, "City Hall Beat," and wrote The Mayor of New York, a then...
Vance was both stunned and elated. When presented with a similar letter the previous morning, Begin had agreed to the meeting without a moment's hesitation. But this did not surprise U.S. officials, since the Israelis had been saying for months that they were prepared to attend another high-level session with the Egyptians...
...High-level officials in Washington believe that there are a number of reasons why Sadat decided to dig in his heels. In addition to his deep personal antipathy toward Begin, Sadat has grown increasingly impatient over Israeli stalling and U.S. reluctance to put forth a plan of its own, which Cairo thinks would serve to pressure Israel into some concessions. The most important factor, however, is believed to be a new Saudi Arabian campaign for Arab unity, aimed at reconciling Sadat and Syrian President Hafez Assad, who broke with Egypt over Sadat's visit to Jerusalem last November...
...expensive is the creation of an all-new plane that Boeing is looking for partners to help do the work and share the cost. In no other industry are there such large international combines?or so much high-level politicking. When he visited Jimmy Carter last June, British Prime Minister James Callaghan discussed an Anglo-American aviation linkup. British Aerospace, a nationalized collection of airframe and weapon makers, is being courted by the European Airbus consortium and Boeing. As a start, Boeing wants British Aerospace to make the wings for its planned narrow-bodied, 150-passenger...
Civil Service Reform. To improve the federal bureaucracy's efficiency, Carter proposed that hiring and firing procedures be streamlined for the Government's 2.8 million civil service employees. For high-level bureaucrats, he also recommended greater use of salary incentives based on job performance. Last week the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee approved a bill, but only after it had been substantially rewritten under pressure from lobbyists for Government employees. The committee cut back the incentive program to a two-year experiment and limited it to three agencies, to be designated by the Administration. It proposed...