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HAROLD BROWN did not say anything of importance in his speech last Monday night, nor did anyone expect him to. His SALT talk resembled more than anything else a hastily prepared--and poorly edited--press release. When high government officials visit Harvard, they huddle with "the experts," the upper echelon of Harvard that masquerades as a government consulting firm. (Or is it the other way around?) For appearance's sake, they crank out a perfunctory speech for "the University community." Yet 700 students show up to hear it. It's The Harvard Experience, students playing their role, with Brown going...
Saying that the $2.60 price being discussed then was too high and could go much higher since it was tied to the cost of home heating oil, then Energy Secretary James Schlesinger entered the deliberations and led them to a breakdown; the Mexicans said he used "colossus of the north" bargaining tactics. While in Mexico last February, Jimmy Carter tried to revive the talks, but Mexican President José López Portillo sniffed: "Presidents are statesmen, not merchants...
This year they have a different gripe: labor disputes are plaguing the nation's overburdened crop distribution system at a time when bin-busting harvests and a high export demand augur a booming farm economy. Since late August the United Transportation Union and the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks have halted operations on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, which serves 1,680 grain elevators in the Midwest. And for almost three months a strike by the American Federation of Grain Millers has closed the 13 huge grain elevators in the port of Duluth-Superior, stopping...
...Brett's insider's knowledge of high-intensity show business - he is a scriptwriter and former BBC radio producer - that makes his witty mysteries go. It looks as if Charles Paris is finally working in a long run. So it's not Oedipus...
...much concerned with the calculus of power: when and how it should be applied or withheld; how it affects a nation's conduct; how it must be interwoven with concepts not only of national interest but of national honor. The book offers an unparalleled inside account of the high-stakes bureaucratic battles to control policy and of the forging of new relationships with old enemies. It shows how momentous events are swayed by the personalities of those engaged in them, with the personalities themselves profiled in shrewd, telling vignettes. In this week's excerpts Kissinger describes his unexpected initial summons...