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...Security Affairs Agency because he felt the State Department was ignoring his advice. Schlesinger suggested making Ellsworth a Deputy Secretary of Defense, which would place him on an equal, No. 2 ranking with the Pentagon's William Clements. Ford, who had already offered Ellsworth the presidency of the Export-Import Bank, was noncommittal. Although the cool meeting lasted for 90 minutes, Ford gave no hint that he planned to fire Schlesinger...
Ford told Schlesinger that he wanted Rumsfeld to replace him but that Rumsfeld had not yet agreed. Schlesinger was offered the presidency of the Export-Import Bank and, alternatively, the ambassadorship to NATO. He turned down both and left after 30 minutes ?stunned. (Learning later that his job had been offered to others, NATO Ambassador David Bruce, 77, a distinguished career diplomat who has no plans to retire, was outraged...
...nothing else the Rambouillet meeting is an important symbol of world leaders' willingness at least to consult each other on policy and avoid conflicts that might weaken the global economy. The gathering might also produce a useful reaffirmation by the government heads that they will resist growing pressure in every country for import quotas and other self-defeating protectionist measures...
FROM THE ONSET of industrialization in the late nineteenth century, Spain was the only European country where the Anarchists flourished. Marxist socialism was a "civilized" import that came later, hailing the eventual benefits of modernization and preaching gradualism. But landless Andulusian Farm hands and Catalonian textile workers were Anarchists until 1939--they dreamed of a collective society run by ordinary people and not by petty officials. The Socialists and Communists controlled Madrid during the Civil War, and the city knew no internal disorder. In Barcelona, where Anarchist workers held sway, there was revolution...
...Incredible Machine, running on PBS, whomped its commercial competitors in some major markets, gaining a record-breaking 36% audience share in New York. It was, ironically, part of a documentary series that has been booted off all three commercial networks for lack of audience appeal. Jennie, a PBS import about Winston Churchill's mother, has done better in some significant urban areas than a lot of network Gorgonzola. If we ever had a stable, well-managed and well-financed public broadcasting system in the U.S., one capable of building a coherent, dependable schedule, the commercial broadcasters' status might...